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Tachyon News Service is proud to announce that the Confederacy of Xessmithia has given the go ahead for the long planned New Dawn Orbital Station. When complete this station will be largest space-borne structure ever built by Xessmithian engineers and workers, having a planned height of 5 kilometers and a width of a kilometer and massing over 10 million metric tons. It will be located by the Xess TCG gate and will serve as a center for scientific research and as a colony for Xessmithia's growing population.
It will take an estimated 13 years to construct and will be powered by Xessmithia's Solar Collector Array.

OOC:
What the station will look like--
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v422/Xessmithia/gate.jpg

OOC: The station will cost 650 billion USD which will be drawn from all the areas of the Xessmithian budget in egually percentages over the 13 years(13 RL days) of construction.

OOC: 1/13th complete

The United States of Wolf America will send you 200 billion dollar, if we can use this station. Plus we would like to be your allies.


-Minister of Foreign Affairs
Jane Wastons (http://www.freewebs.com/wolfamerica/Jane%20Wastons.JPG)
Member of the Alliance of Naggaroth (AoN)
Member of the ISEC
Member of the United Federation of Planets (UFP)
Member of the United Space Federation (USF)
Member of the Ottoman Alliance
Member of the Pact of Steel Alliance (PSA)

Official Presidential Statement
The government of Ruthless Slaughter will pay 1 trillion dollars towards the completion of your space station. We already have Starbases Waypoint, Admonitor and the space station Deep Space Nine up and running. We encourage space stations, as they have many uses. We hope you are successful in this venture.

President R.L. XX
Ruthless Slaughter

Ask not for whom the bell tolls, it tolls for thee

The United States of Wolf America will send you 200 billion dollar, if we can use this station. Plus we would like to be your allies.

The Confederacy gladly accepts the offer from Wolf America and has set aside dorsal frames 2-5 for the exculisve use of Wolf America.

Official Presidential Statement
The government of Ruthless Slaughter will pay 1 trillion dollars towards the completion of your space station. We already have Starbases Waypoint, Admonitor and the space station Deep Space Nine up and running. We encourage space stations, as they have many uses. We hope you are successful in this venture.

President R.L. XX
Ruthless Slaughter


The Confederacy also gladly and humbly accepts the offer from Rutless Slaughter.


And due to the influx of funds towards the station it has been increased in size 80% for a height of 9 km and a width of 1.8 km. It will also be equipped with state of the art equipment.

OOC: 3/13 complete

The Confederacy gladly accepts the offer from Wolf America and has set aside dorsal frames 2-5 for the exculisve use of Wolf America.

OOC: 3/13 complete

The USWA thanks you plus the money has been wired. It is good to your ally. We will send 1,000 worker to built in dorsal frames 2-5.

OOC: I'm going to built science stations in 2-4 and a meeting room in 5.

The USWA thanks you plus the money has been wired. It is good to your ally. We will send 1,000 worker to built in dorsal frames 2-5.

OOC: I'm going to built science stations in 2-4 and a meeting room in 5.

IC: We have confirmed you transfer of funds and bid you good luck with your plans with your section.

OOC: Sounds good to me. And if you look at the picture I gave you 80% of one of the top rectangular sections including the glass dome on top. You have plenty of room.

OOC: Sounds good to me. And if you look at the picture I gave you 80% of one of the top rectangular sections including the glass dome on top. You have plenty of room.

OOC: Cool. I will make some of it into a colony for 500,000 people and have a huge meeting hall.

OOC: Cool. I will make some of it into a colony for 500,000 people and have a huge meeting hall.

OOC: Go for it. It's all yours.

Our worker have started built a colony on dorsal frame 2. The colony will be built for 500,000 people. After they are done with the colony they will start built science stations in dorsal frames 3-4 and a massive meeting hall in dorsal frame 5.

OOC: They will be done with the colony in a year. (A day in real time.)

Our worker have started built a colony on dorsal frame 2. The colony will be built for 500,000 people. After they are done with the colony they will start built science stations in dorsal frames 3-4 and a massive meeting hall in dorsal frame 5.

"Attention Wolf America workers, this is the construction manager for New Dawn Orbital. We welcome you to Xess orbit and offer you use of our equipment. Wishing you best speed and best health."

"Attention Wolf America workers, this is the construction manager for New Dawn Orbital. We welcome you to Xess orbit and offer you use of our equipment. Wishing you best speed and best health."

"Thank you." said head of the Wolf Americans workers, Bob McGrandy

OOC: 4/13 complete

IC:

As New Dawn Orbital will be home to millions of colonists and scientists and workers it will be well defended. It's defenses are as follows.

Armor:

2000 mm WUC
- 24,000 mm RHA equivalent

Shield:

Class 7 NPA shield
- 500 exajoule/ 1500 exawatt overload rating

Armament:

-200 Class 4 LinAc point-denfense turrets
-- 100 megajoules/ 300 megawatts

- 15 Class Class 7 LinAc Turrets
-- 5 petajoules/ 15 petawatts

- 2 Class 9 LinAc cannons
-- 2 exajoules/ 4 exawatts

Message From The Unity(the top of the government in The Aracnids)

The government of The Aracnids is prepared to make an offer. We would like to give you 200 billion dollars for the ability to construct a massive add-on to your space station and the ability to use the construction resources and any life support stations you have at the site until we can provide our own in large amounts. Of course The Aracnids will provide our own material resources in building the station. This would very helpful to you. Any attack on your station would also involve attacking my station. So any potential enemies may be discouraged by fighting a nation as large as The Aracnids. Plus this add-on is mostly going to be a massive construction and fabrication platform which may become useful to you. In this proposal we would like to also propose a permanent alliance. So far blueprints and statistics have not been finalized but when they are you will recieve them.


Offical Unity Statement
Home Hive of The Aracnids

Will the Bora be attacking it?

lol

Is Tachyon still played?

Task Force Tiger
After recent reports of a new Xessmithia orbital space station the NSSF had decided to take action. Therefore came the birth of Task Force Tiger which would set out at 0300 Hours. The Task Force broke off from the main fleet stationed around Mars and went into Hyper space until they would reach 10,000 Kilometers from the Xessmithia Space station.

Task Force tiger
1 RD-03 Capital Class Destroyer
56 Z-1 Cruisers
44 Z-2 Cruisers
36 Z-3 Cruisers
72 V-2 Destroyer
12 Lx-008 Carriers
x Number of supply ships, transports, defense gun, ext...

ooc: Once they leave hyper space I will post more, that will most likely be tomorrow.

Will the Bora be attacking it?


:D. Hey it looks cool ok :p

lol

Is Tachyon still played?

I still like it :D

Message From The Unity(the top of the government in The Aracnids)

The government of The Aracnids is prepared to make an offer. We would like to give you 200 billion dollars for the ability to construct a massive add-on to your space station and the ability to use the construction resources and any life support stations you have at the site until we can provide our own in large amounts. Of course The Aracnids will provide our own material resources in building the station. This would very helpful to you. Any attack on your station would also involve attacking my station. So any potential enemies may be discouraged by fighting a nation as large as The Aracnids. Plus this add-on is mostly going to be a massive construction and fabrication platform which may become useful to you. In this proposal we would like to also propose a permanent alliance. So far blueprints and statistics have not been finalized but when they are you will recieve them.


Offical Unity Statement
Home Hive of The Aracnids


We accept your offer. However we also request that you build your station offset from the main station yet still attached via a zero-gee elevator so as to preserve the general appearance of the station.

OOC: 5/13 complete

The colony is done. The workers have started working on the science stations . They will be done in 8 months.

The clony is done. The workers have started working on the science stations . They will be done in 8 months.

Excellent work.

Task Force Tiger
After recent reports of a new Xessmithia orbital space station the NSSF had decided to take action. Therefore came the birth of Task Force Tiger which would set out at 0300 Hours. The Task Force broke off from the main fleet stationed around Mars and went into Hyper space until they would reach 10,000 Kilometers from the Xessmithia Space station.

Task Force tiger
1 RD-03 Capital Class Destroyer
56 Z-1 Cruisers
44 Z-2 Cruisers
36 Z-3 Cruisers
72 V-2 Destroyer
12 Lx-008 Carriers
x Number of supply ships, transports, defense gun, ext...

ooc: Once they leave hyper space I will post more, that will most likely be tomorrow.

OOC: You should know that the Xess system is in an area of space that screws up FTL flight and navigation. The only failsafe way to get to Xess is through our TCG gate.

Nice station.
Does it have auto defence guns?
If it has no defence I will make a proposition to trade technowledgy or intelligence.
Also we would like to communicate with you again sometime to design a station for our planet.(for communication uses)

Nice station.
Does it have auto defence guns?
If it has no defence I will make a proposition to trade technowledgy or intelligence.
Also we would like to communicate with you again sometime to design a station for our planet.(for communication uses)

It does indeed have auto defense guns.


Armor:

2000 mm WUC
- 24,000 mm RHA equivalent

Shield:

Class 7 NPA shield
- 500 exajoule/ 1500 exawatt overload rating

Armament:

-200 Class 4 LinAc point-denfense turrets
-- 100 megajoules/ 300 megawatts

- 15 Class Class 7 LinAc Turrets
-- 5 petajoules/ 15 petawatts

- 2 Class 9 LinAc cannons
-- 2 exajoules/ 4 exawatts

However we would like to start diplomatic relations. And we would gladly accept a contract to design a station for you.

Good.Your nation is in our allies list.(all nations that agree to trade or allie get added)

Task Force Tiger
Just in case the Task Force left behind large beacons while they traveled through the system. And they was almost no way for them to get lost on the way there fore they where taking a direct route to Xessmithia so they could not get lost.

Coming out of Hyper Space, 10,000 Kilometers and closing

The Admiral of the fleet, aboard the NSS Kunor Flag Ship, was sitting in his admirals chair on the bridge sipping some black coffee. "Sir we are coming out of hyper space! And we are closing in on 10,000 Km" said the pilot who was sitting in front of him "Good" he turned his head towards the Weapons officer "Prepare all weapons! Set fleet on red alert and combat ready status." he looked towards the front of the ship again "Yes sir" said the weapons officer. The entire fleet went onto combat ready status and all weapons where activated. Aboard the carriers pilots scrambled to there ships and prepared to take off. 40 Squads of L-11's departure from carriers and began heading for the Xessmithia space based station and after they had reached 2,000 Km from the fleet, which was staying at 10,000 Km away, a group of 60 L-9's, 40 SG-2's would head out and head towards the Xessmithia space station.


Operation Little Bird, Squads 1-40, Approaching 8,000 Kilometers from Space station
"All ships prepare to fire once station in on scanners! I repeat prepare to fire once station is on scanners!" Soon the Xessmithia space station came onto scanners and ships launched there CJ-2's. All L-11's fired off half there pay load which was 1,680 CJ-2 missiles. The CJ-2 was a large missile with a 1,000 Kg Plasma warhead and it would travel two times the speed of light directly at the target, it travels that fast because it was meant to hit slow or still targets. The L-11's still where heading for the Xessmithia space station at a slow rate.

lol

so did the plamsa warheads detonate on the surface of the station before they were launched?

and they travel at twice the speed of light because they are optimized for slow moving targets?! whos writes this shit? :D

Task Force Tiger
Just in case the Task Force left behind large beacons while they traveled through the system. And they was almost no way for them to get lost on the way there fore they where taking a direct route to Xessmithia so they could not get lost.

Coming out of Hyper Space, 10,000 Kilometers and closing

The Admiral of the fleet, aboard the NSS Kunor Flag Ship, was sitting in his admirals chair on the bridge sipping some black coffee. "Sir we are coming out of hyper space! And we are closing in on 10,000 Km" said the pilot who was sitting in front of him "Good" he turned his head towards the Weapons officer "Prepare all weapons! Set fleet on red alert and combat ready status." he looked towards the front of the ship again "Yes sir" said the weapons officer. The entire fleet went onto combat ready status and all weapons where activated. Aboard the carriers pilots scrambled to there ships and prepared to take off. 40 Squads of L-11's departure from carriers and began heading for the Xessmithia space based station and after they had reached 2,000 Km from the fleet, which was staying at 10,000 Km away, a group of 60 L-9's, 40 SG-2's would head out and head towards the Xessmithia space station.


Operation Little Bird, Squads 1-40, Approaching 8,000 Kilometers from Space station
"All ships prepare to fire once station in on scanners! I repeat prepare to fire once station is on scanners!" Soon the Xessmithia space station came onto scanners and ships launched there CJ-2's. All L-11's fired off half there pay load which was 1,680 CJ-2 missiles. The CJ-2 was a large missile with a 1,000 Kg Plasma warhead and it would travel two times the speed of light directly at the target, it travels that fast because it was meant to hit slow or still targets. The L-11's still where heading for the Xessmithia space station at a slow rate.

Deep inside the crust of Xess lay the heart of the Xessmithian Defence Institute. It was always busy in the clean mettalic base, defence of the population wasn't something Xessmithia did half-assed.

A technician, a young sergeant, sat looking at his tachyon early-warning screen. It was quiet as usual, suddenly there was a blip, then another, then there were over 200 blips on his screen. All approaching through the 30 light-year thick No-FLy-Zone, known affectionately as The Dutchman Maker sphere surrounding the Xess system. "Morons," he said to himself.

He slammed the alert button, red light's flared throughout the base as the Xessmithian High Command was brought in.

Moments later the High Command was meeting. "What's the situation?" Asked Admiral Armishaw.

General Sullivan answered, "We have a fleet of 200 some odd ships, presumed hostile, coming in through the NFZ. So far we have a scatter of 20% of the ships mostly the small ones from what our long-range tachy mass scanners have told us. Some of them have had their vectors altered so they'll end up god knows where but most of them are still enroute for the system. They'll arrive scattered though so there won't be much of a massed assault."

"Any idea of why they attacked?" Asked Brigadier General Adams of the Xessmithian Marine Corp.

"Our best guess is that they're after New Dawn based on their original vectors." General Sullivan answered again.

Admiral Armishaw spoke up again, "I've already ordered all TCG gates in system closed. They're not going to get anywhere the easy way."

"Excellent." Brig. General Adams said, he turned to his aide. "Send a message to Wolf America, AeroSpaceCity, The Aracnids
and the ECF task-force currently here on diplomatic talks. They all of interests here, and we could sure use the help in defence." The aide nodded and went about sending the message.

In Xess Orbit

The hostile fleet had arrived, but not on an unsuspecting foe. The destroyes XNV Cyclone, Hurricane and Thunder Head along with the frigates XNV Odin and Horus were there to meet the incoming barage.

The incoming swarm of missiles didn't phase them. The missiles were met with a wall point-defence LinAc fire from all 5 ships as well as the temporary defence platforms. Flashes of super-heated gas marked the spots where the missiles had been destroyed. In the end only half of the missiles made it to their target of New Dawn station. It's shields took a massive blow, overloading with the impact.

But that was enough, the shields took the brunt of the attack, leaving the station to suffer only cosmetic damage. But it would still take a minute to reset the shields. And that was a minute that New Dawn may not have.

OOC: You're task force did get scattered, 20% is lost in the wilds of space and the rest is spread out within the system in small groups. I established this effect in my Diplomatic thread with ECF. If you don't like it, tough.

All of Wolf American workers turn and look out in space. They see 200 ships and all start laugh because a lot of ship are being send in the wilds of space.

Bob McGrandy hits a few buttons on the comm-link panel. “ This is Bob McGrandy at the New Dawn Orbital station. We have a lot ship head our way.”

A few seconds later someone on the end said something. “This is Captain Gallo of the WASF Minuteman. We have send your message to High Commander Johnson. I have with me, two Infidel Escorts & two Iconoclast Escorts. We are head your way, as I’m talking to you.”


OOC: WASF Minuteman is a Dauntless Cruiser.

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After a few mins.

The High Commander of Wolf American Space Fleet gets to message. The High Commander is on the WASF Timber Wolf.

The High Commander thinks to himself and then say aloud “ Send the WASF Death From Above and six more Infidel Escorts plus ten Sword Escorts, now.” He was talking to Lt. Otemage, his second - in - command.

High Commander Johnson: “Now, open a channel to Captain Ivan.”
Lt. Otemage: “Done, sir.”
High Commander Johnson: “ Captain, we need your help at the New Dawn Orbital station.”
Captain Ivan of the 386SF Thor: “Ok, High Commander Johnson. We will send the 386SF Promethesus & 386SF Bob & 386SF Scimitar & 386SF Bob II & 386SF Warbird & 386SF Bob III plus 10 Klingon Bird of Preys and 10 Steamrunner Class Light Cruisers.”



OOC2: WASF Death From Above is a Titan Class Battle Barge. 386SF Promethesus & 386SF Bob are BC-303 Prometheuses. 386SF Scimitar & 386SF Bob II are Scimitar Class Heavy Battleships. 386SF Warbird & 386SF Bob III are D'Deridex Class Warbirds. The 386SF ship are from Compy 386, part of the United States.

OOC3: How far is the New Dawn Orbital station from Earth?

All of Wolf American workers turn and look out in space. They see 200 ships and all start laugh because a lot of ship are being send in the wilds of space.

Bob McGrandy hits a few buttons on the comm-link panel. “ This is Bob McGrandy at the New Dawn Orbital station. We have a lot ship head our way.”

A few seconds later someone on the end said something. “This is Captain Gallo of the WASF Minuteman. We have send your message to High Commander Johnson. I have with me, two Infidel Escorts & two Iconoclast Escorts. We are head your way, as I’m talking to you.”


OOC: WASF Minuteman is a Dauntless Cruiser.

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After a few mins.

The High Commander of Wolf American Space Fleet gets to message. The High Commander is on the WASF Timber Wolf.

The High Commander thinks to himself and then say aloud “ Send the WASF Death From Above and six more Infidel Escorts plus ten Sword Escorts, now.” He was talking to Lt. Otemage, his second - in - command.

High Commander Johnson: “Now, open a channel to Captain Ivan.”
Lt. Otemage: “Done, sir.”
High Commander Johnson: “ Captain, we need your help at the New Dawn Orbital station.”
Captain Ivan of the 386SF Thor: “Ok, High Commander Johnson. We will send the 386SF Promethesus & 386SF Bob & 386SF Scimitar & 386SF Bob II & 386SF Warbird & 386SF Bob III plus 10 Klingon Bird of Preys and 10 Steamrunner Class Light Cruisers.”



OOC2: WASF Death From Above is a Titan Class Battle Barge. 386SF Promethesus & 386SF Bob are BC-303 Prometheuses. 386SF Scimitar & 386SF Bob II are Scimitar Class Heavy Battleships. 386SF Warbird & 386SF Bob III are D'Deridex Class Warbirds. The 386SF ship are from Compy 386, part of the United States.

OOC3: How far is the New Dawn Orbital station from Earth?


Admiral Armishaw looked at the new report coming in from Wolf America. "Attention all allied Wolf American ships. I'm transmitting the TCG gate codes to you now. Send these to the gate to allow yourself safe passage into the Xess system so your ships don't get their FTL messed up like the attackers did. And thanks for the help."

OOC: New Dawn is in Geo-stationary orbit approx 23000 miles or so I can't quite remember the exact number. And it's Xess not Earth. It's a totally different world, Xessmithia was formed from a lost colony sent off from Earth.

If you need backup we can send reinforcments.Don't worry about Gate codes.We have a ship so large they'll just shake it.No way our bird will shutdown.We can send through The Pheonix Of Ages,a warship meant to weald info and destroy in battle.Armed with 100 Helblidis,20 Drop-n-bombers,and 200 AeroSpace Jets(and thats just the added ships not the weapons).

Admiral Armishaw looked at the new report coming in from Wolf America. "Attention all allied Wolf American ships. I'm transmitting the TCG gate codes to you now. Send these to the gate to allow yourself safe passage into the Xess system so your ships don't get their FTL messed up like the attackers did. And thanks for the help."

OOC: New Dawn is in Geo-stationary orbit approx 23000 miles or so I can't quite remember the exact number. And it's Xess not Earth. It's a totally different world, Xessmithia was formed from a lost colony sent off from Earth.


The WASF Minuteman and its four escorts arrive at the station.

Captain Gallo : "Open a channel to Admiral Armishaw. Tell the admiral that the other WASf ships and 386SF ships will be here in maybe 30 mins."

ooc: I forgot to say this but the Luger-11 is a stealth craft, it absorbs all RADAR, LIDAR and anything like that but with LIDAR it deflects it to the bottom and top so it does not go back. Also I don't believe you would be able to see a craft with the naked human eye that is entirely black and that is also at least 7,000 Kilometers out.


Luna I, if people are able to send space crafts over 10x the speed of light i think I can send a large missile twice the speed of light. And the plasma war head detonates .5 meters from the target. It is meant for LARGE targets that move slow such as space stations or ground targets because a 2x speed of light it will have almost no maneuverability.

OOC: Just to let you guys know I am Sending a large task force to help my new 'ally', but I can't post it tonight, So prepare to lose
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Captain Wells: Admiral Willing please Bring your task force so we CAN GIT HER DONE!

ooc: I forgot to say this but the Luger-11 is a stealth craft, it absorbs all RADAR, LIDAR and anything like that but with LIDAR it deflects it to the bottom and top so it does not go back. Also I don't believe you would be able to see a craft with the naked human eye that is entirely black and that is also at least 7,000 Kilometers out.


Luna I, if people are able to send space crafts over 10x the speed of light i think I can send a large missile twice the speed of light. And the plasma war head detonates .5 meters from the target. It is meant for LARGE targets that move slow such as space stations or ground targets because a 2x speed of light it will have almost no maneuverability.

A technician, a young sergeant, sat looking at his tachyon early-warning screen

General Sullivan answered, "We have a fleet of 200 some odd ships, presumed hostile, coming in through the NFZ. So far we have a scatter of 20% of the ships mostly the small ones from what our long-range tachy mass scanners have told us. Some of them have had their vectors altered so they'll end up god knows where but most of them are still enroute for the system. They'll arrive scattered though so there won't be much of a massed assault."

OOC:Please note the bold parts. Your ship's tachyon wake from FTL travel travel was picked up by the technician. And the tachyon mass scanners detect the MASS of your ship. You can't cloak that. Nice try though.

If you need backup we can send reinforcments.Don't worry about Gate codes.We have a ship so large they'll just shake it.No way our bird will shutdown.We can send through The Pheonix Of Ages,a warship meant to weald info and destroy in battle.Armed with 100 Helblidis,20 Drop-n-bombers,and 200 AeroSpace Jets(and thats just the added ships not the weapons).

"We thank you for your offer. If we need the re-enforcements we'll give you a hoot. But we seem to be holding our own for now." Admiral Armishaw answered, he paused for a second, "Oh by the way, ships don't shut down in the NFZ they just get their FTL vectors and speeds shot to hell and back. We've lost more than our fair share of ships from having them flung to the ass-end of nowhere or torn apart from having the ship accelerate in two many directions at once and in opposing directions. Be glad a ship of that mass will get through it with just a slight deviation from your navigators pre-set course. It'll probably annoy the hell outa him but you'll be fine."

The WASF Minuteman and its four escorts arrive at the station.

Captain Gallo : "Open a channel to Admiral Armishaw. Tell the admiral that the other WASf ships and 386SF ships will be here in maybe 30 mins."

"Glad to hear it Captain. We await your arrival." Armishaw said curtly, he then turned back to the holo-tank display of the system.

In Xess Orbit

A full wing of XASF-12's roared out of the atmosphere towards the attacking ships. Their shields were raised, their weapons armed. They were ready to dish out a little payback.

"All right folks let's give 'em hell!" Colonel Blair Redman yelled over the radio to his wing. They ships screamed in at full acceleration, they began their attack run and space filled with the blue tracers of LinAc fire.

OOC:
Nano-soft see my tech thread to look up the specs of the XASF-12.

WASF Death From Above & 386SF Promethesus & 386SF Bob & 386SF Scimitar & 386SF Bob II & 386SF Warbird & 386SF Bob III plus 6 Infidel Escorts, 10 Sword Escorts, 10 Klingon Bird of Preys and 10 Steamrunner Class Light Cruisers arrive at the station.

All WASF/386SF ships have there weapons charge and ready to fire when need to.

Total of WASF/386SF:
Titan Class Battle Barge
2 BC-303 Prometheuses
2 Scimitar Class Heavy Battleships
2 D'Deridex Class Warbirds
Dauntless Cruiser
2 Iconoclast Escorts
8 Infidel Escorts
10 Sword Escorts
10 Klingon Bird of Preys
10 Steamrunner Class Light Cruisers

WASF Death From Above & 386SF Promethesus & 386SF Bob & 386SF Scimitar & 386SF Bob II & 386SF Warbird & 386SF Bob III plus 6 Infidel Escorts, 10 Sword Escorts, 10 Klingon Bird of Preys and 10 Steamrunner Class Light Cruisers arrive at the station.

All WASF/386SF ships have there weapons charge and ready to fire when need to.

Total of WASF/386SF:
Titan Class Battle Barge
2 BC-303 Prometheuses
2 Scimitar Class Heavy Battleships
2 D'Deridex Class Warbirds
Dauntless Cruiser
2 Iconoclast Escorts
8 Infidel Escorts
10 Sword Escorts
10 Klingon Bird of Preys
10 Steamrunner Class Light Cruisers

Admiral Armishaw saw the Wolf America ships on the holo-tank. He opened a comm channel to them, "Wolf American task force, if it's not too much trouble go sweeping the system for the Nano soft ships that got scattered throughout system. We can handle the ones in orbit."

Admiral Armishaw saw the Wolf America ships on the holo-tank. He opened a comm channel to them, "Wolf American task force, if it's not too much trouble go sweeping the system for the Nano soft ships that got scattered throughout system. We can handle the ones in orbit."

"Ok. I will go searching for the Nano Soft ships. We will left 10 Bird of Preys at the station for more protection." said Captain Jack F. Deerman of the WASF Death From Above.

"Ok. I will go searching for the Nano Soft ships. We will left 10 Bird of Preys at the station for more protection." said Captain Jack F. Deerman of the WASF Death From Above.

Admiral Armishaw nodded with satisfaction as he received the confirmation. "Thank you for the assistance. We can't spare the home defense fleet to go searching the system." He looked at the holo-tank. "I'm sending you the position of some of their ships." Armishaw encoded the transmission and sent it off. "They look to be in the destroyer range of mass. Good hunting."

OOC: Now we just have to wait for Nano-soft.

Admiral Armishaw nodded with satisfaction as he received the confirmation. "Thank you for the assistance. We can't spare the home defense fleet to go searching the system." He looked at the holo-tank. "I'm sending you the position of some of their ships." Armishaw encoded the transmission and sent it off. "They look to be in the destroyer range of mass. Good hunting."

OOC: Now we just have to wait for Nano-soft.

"Got the position. We are heading that way, now." said Captain Jack F. Deerman. "To all WASF/386SF ships have weapons ready for anything."

Bump for Nano soft

Still waiting for Nano soft.

Near New Dawn Space

"Admiral Telik, should I turn on the battle stations siren?" asked the young bridge officer.

"Of course you know battle stations are to be called for immediatly when battle signatures are detected." Vice Admiral Telik punched out the words quickly.

Although the experienced Vice Admiral was shocked by the odd development he did not show it to the bridge crew. Remaining confident is what had gotten the officer this far. If he pulled this off without flaw maybe that promotion would come just a bit sooner. His thought were quickly interrupted by the sound of the siren going off alerting the unexpecting crew of the upcoming battle.

No one even thought a battle would be on the list for escort duty during peace time. The Unity had chosen that a massive Fleet station was to be built alongside New Dawn Orbital Station. The six behemoth sized Grafting class frieghters were carrying the personnel and materials to begin the station. Also Fleet Command had ordered Battle Fleet to escort the frieghters safely to New Dawn. At first Admiral Telik had thought asigning heavy hitters to escort duty was a waste but his mind was changed when seeing the unfolding battle on the holoscreen. The six supermonitors and the point defense screen of the 12 battlecruisers was a force to be reckoned with. The Hun class battlecruisers not only packed relatively good point defense but also could put out a good amount of long range missles. Three of the supermonitors were Demon class. They carried 40 gunboats on their external racks each and had 4 capital missile and 4 Strategic Bombardment(SBM) internal missile launchers each. The three remaining supermonitors were Hellfire class, pure missile platforms carrying capital missiles on their external racks with 5 internal capital missile launchers and 5 SBM missile lauchers each. Vice Admiral Telik was commanding from the Hellfire ship Pride of The Queen. With Task Force 21 he was sure he could help Xessmithia

"Order the gunboats to be prepped for long range strikes against the enemy. We will be assisting Xessmithia to defend the system. While the battle-line will not be able to engage the enemy for a while, the gunboats will be able to strike several times on the enemyand weaken them." The Vice Admiral had practiced this tactic back in the war against the rebels and crushed them in several battles using it. Now it was time to use it again.

"Hail New Dawn Command. I am sure they will want to hear from us."Telik ordered.

Near New Dawn Space

"Admiral Telik, should I turn on the battle stations siren?" asked the young bridge officer.

"Of course you know battle stations are to be called for immediatly when battle signatures are detected." Vice Admiral Telik punched out the words quickly.

Although the experienced Vice Admiral was shocked by the odd development he did not show it to the bridge crew. Remaining confident is what had gotten the officer this far. If he pulled this off without flaw maybe that promotion would come just a bit sooner. His thought were quickly interrupted by the sound of the siren going off alerting the unexpecting crew of the upcoming battle.

No one even thought a battle would be on the list for escort duty during peace time. The Unity had chosen that a massive Fleet station was to be built alongside New Dawn Orbital Station. The six behemoth sized Grafting class frieghters were carrying the personnel and materials to begin the station. Also Fleet Command had ordered Battle Fleet to escort the frieghters safely to New Dawn. At first Admiral Telik had thought asigning heavy hitters to escort duty was a waste but his mind was changed when seeing the unfolding battle on the holoscreen. The six supermonitors and the point defense screen of the 12 battlecruisers was a force to be reckoned with. The Hun class battlecruisers not only packed relatively good point defense but also could put out a good amount of long range missles. Three of the supermonitors were Demon class. They carried 40 gunboats on their external racks each and had 4 capital missile and 4 Strategic Bombardment(SBM) internal missile launchers each. The three remaining supermonitors were Hellfire class, pure missile platforms carrying capital missiles on their external racks with 5 internal capital missile launchers and 5 SBM missile lauchers each. Vice Admiral Telik was commanding from the Hellfire ship Pride of The Queen. With Task Force 21 he was sure he could help Xessmithia

"Order the gunboats to be prepped for long range strikes against the enemy. We will be assisting Xessmithia to defend the system. While the battle-line will not be able to engage the enemy for a while, the gunboats will be able to strike several times on the enemyand weaken them." The Vice Admiral had practiced this tactic back in the war against the rebels and crushed them in several battles using it. Now it was time to use it again.

"Hail New Dawn Command. I am sure they will want to hear from us."Telik ordered.

"Sir, we're gettimg a transmission forwarded from New Dawn Orbital. It's from an Admiral Telik of the Aracnid task force that escorted their construction crews in." The tech said.

Admiral Armishaw, who was watching the holo-tank as the two generals worked on evacuating all non-essential personnel from orbit and setting up defenses and probable hostile landing zones, wasted no time in answering the hail. "First things first, I'm glad to have your assistance admiral. From what I've gathered from my scans, your ships boast mostly long range missiles." Armishaw pulled some data off the holo-tank and sent it to Telik. "Here's the primary hostile battle-line. The highlighted ship is the most massive and we've therefore assumed it's the hostile flag. If it were taken out of the fight the hostiles may lose their cohesion and morale, ending this fight quickly. My request to you is to focus your fire on it, with the ships I've designated as the carriers a secondary target. Good hunting Admiral Telik."

OOC: The massive ship is Nano soft's "RD-03 Capital Class Destroyer".

OOC2: Aracnids, be sure to keep my population off your menu
:D

OOC: Still waiting for Nano soft

IC:
In Xess Orbit

The minute had passed and New Dawn's sheilds were back online. They were coming to full strength rapidly, they were already at the point where they were when the first salvo had disabled them. Within seconds the shields were at their full power, able to stop a bit more than 100 gigatons of energy in it's tracks.

The Destroyers had charged their main wepons. The Hurricane fired it's dorsal and ventral turrets at the nearest hostile capitol ship, it's four 200 kiloton LinAc bolts racing towards their target. The other destroyers soon followed suit, adding their bolts of death to the fray.

Captain Wells: ECF Task Force 3 On route, ETA 30 minutes, Hold out as long as you can. He;s about to get a taste of my 3 gigaton Phasers!

Captain Wells: ECF Task Force 3 On route, ETA 30 minutes, Hold out as long as you can. He;s about to get a taste of my 3 gigaton Phasers!

"This Admiral Armishaw Captain Wells. We copy you and wish you good hunting. Although the hostiles don't seem to be doing much after that first missile salvo."

OOC: Nano soft, if you don't post a reply to the various attacks made against your ships within 18 hours, I'm going to assume your fleet decided it didn't want to risk losses and retreated. You'll have suffered no losses except for the ships that got sent into the great unknown of space, recover those if you want.

OOC: Well, it's been more than 18 hours Nano soft. It's been interesting trying to RP with you.

IC: Armishaw stared at the holo-tank in amazement, the hostile ships were retreating, every last one of them. "Well that's an unexpected development." He said. "Contact our allies, tell them to stand down. There's no threat anymore."

All across the system, Xessmithian vessels stood down from General Quarters and watched as the hostile fleet withdrew. In Xess orbit the workers began to come back to New Dawn to finish it's construction. However the attack had an interesting side effect, it had made the people think of New Dawn as worth finishing even more if it was worth attacking. This new burst of morale would allow the station to be finished in half the time, a mere 3 years.

OOC2: Thanks to the attack the station is now 7/10 complete.

OOC: Well, it's been more than 18 hours Nano soft. It's been interesting trying to RP with you.

IC: Armishaw stared at the holo-tank in amazement, the hostile ships were retreating, every last one of them. "Well that's an unexpected development." He said. "Contact our allies, tell them to stand down. There's no threat anymore."

All across the system, Xessmithian vessels stood down from General Quarters and watched as the hostile fleet withdrew. In Xess orbit the workers began to come back to New Dawn to finish it's construction. However the attack had an interesting side effect, it had made the people think of New Dawn as worth finishing even more if it was worth attacking. This new burst of morale would allow the station to be finished in half the time, a mere 3 years.

OOC2: Thanks to the attack the station is now 7/10 complete.

"Good." said Captian Gallo abord the WASF Minuteman, "I will have them send the Wolf Americans that will be living in colony, now."

The Titan Class Battle Barge & 2 BC-303 Prometheuses & 2 Scimitar Class Heavy Battleships & 2 D'Deridex Class Warbirds plus the 10 Klingon Bird of Preys & 10 Steamrunner Class Light Cruisers end thought the gate.

The workers have finished the two science stations and have start working on the massive meeting hall.

"Good." said Captian Gallo abord the WASF Minuteman, "I will have them send the Wolf Americans that will be living in colony, now."

The Titan Class Battle Barge & 2 BC-303 Prometheuses & 2 Scimitar Class Heavy Battleships & 2 D'Deridex Class Warbirds plus the 10 Klingon Bird of Preys & 10 Steamrunner Class Light Cruisers end thought the gate.

The workers have finished the two scine station and have start working on the massive meeting.

"Good work Wolf America. Be sure to get your colonists to report to the station registry. We need to know their names for security and medical reasons."

Direct Transmission To-Xessmithia Station
From-AeroSpaceCity Fleet1

We have picked up what seems to be another fleet stolen from our neighboring nation. They are going to your planets location with
weapons charged.
Shall we interveen?

"Good work Wolf America. Be sure to get your colonists to report to the station registry. We need to know their names for security and medical reasons."

The two colony ships exit the gate. The captains of the both ships have order that the people report to the station registry. Have fun deal with 500,000 people.

Direct Transmission To-Xessmithia Station
From-AeroSpaceCity Fleet1

We have picked up what seems to be another fleet stolen from our neighboring nation. They are going to your planets location with
weapons charged.
Shall we interveen?

Admiral Armishaw looked at the transmission. "They just don't give up do they." He keyed for a direct radio-pulse transmission to AeroSpaceCity, "Yes, please interveen. I'll re0arange my ships for defense yet again."

Direct Transmission To:Xessmithia
From:AeroSpaceCity Fleet1

Very well, we are interveening with our Fleets1-4.
*static*
Fleets1-4, Move in!
*end*

*This is fleets1-4 we are interveening*
(Cannon Blasts)
*We got 20 of em' they've got some sorta shields that block regular fire.Shall we use the gravity cannon ray?*
*Yes use the Zion,Its the last weapon we got with enough power*
*Yes sir, firing*
(beam fire)
*got em' down sir. We have located some pods headed back to Sephitus.Shall we attack?*
*No. Let them go, they'll be shot when they get back.*
Direct Transmission To:Xessmithia
From:AeroSpaceCity Fleet1

Sir, we scared em' off. It seems the cause of their action was a Nazi rally in Sephitus. They were allowed to rally, the choice wasn't very smart.
If you need any help just TG us.

*This is fleets1-4 we are interveening*
(Cannon Blasts)
*We got 20 of em' they've got some sorta shields that block regular fire.Shall we use the gravity cannon ray?*
*Yes use the Zion,Its the last weapon we got with enough power*
*Yes sir, firing*
(beam fire)
*got em' down sir. We have located some pods headed back to Sephitus.Shall we attack?*
*No. Let them go, they'll be shot when they get back.*
Direct Transmission To:Xessmithia
From:AeroSpaceCity Fleet1

Sir, we scared em' off. It seems the cause of their action was a Nazi rally in Sephitus. They were allowed to rally, the choice wasn't very smart.
If you need any help just TG us.


Will do.

OOC: 8/10 complete

Second Fleet had just warped in through the gate. It had the most combined tonnage then any other fleet The Aracnids could boast. Near the almost completed New Dawn Station was the beginnings of another station. Admiral Franos could see on the viewscreen on the bridge Task Force 21 and Combat Space Patrol flying from checkpoint to checkpoint. Second Fleet not only had combat ships but it was also bringing along 28 Grafting class freighters filled to the brink with materials for the station. Also 3 constructs the size of a monitor were also along with Second Fleet. They were Rome class construction ships. These were several of ships responsible for the building of the massive defensive networks throughout the Home Hive's domain. With these ships and the three more Romes on the way the station could be completed within 7 years. However what will be was not as fearsome at the moment of what already was. Second Fleet's combat element was comprised of:

2 Demon class supermonitors
3 Hellfire class supermonitors
7 Horatio class monitors
9 Nelson class monitors
4 Weber class monitors
19 Rex class superdreadnoughts
12 Libra class superdreadnoughts
5 Spitfire class superdreadnoughts
24 Antelope class battleships
13 Eminence class battleships
35 Acadia class battlecruisers
27 Eclipse class battlecruisers
120 Gunboats

There were no heavy or light cruisers in his fleet and no destroyers either. The battlecruisers were sufficent for a point defense screen plus the lighter elements were needed elsewhere. There were less supermonitors in Second Fleet than in Task Force 21 but the rest of Second Fleet made up for that. Anyway the were only 15 supermonitors in existence.

"Open a line to Vice Admiral Telik. We need to tell him of the plans this fleet has before we present our plans to Xessmithia. They will need some convincing for what we are going to propose." The comm officer nodded as Franos delivered his order.

Franos knew this was the beginning of a whole new episode in history.

Second Fleet had just warped in through the gate. It had the most combined tonnage then any other fleet The Aracnids could boast. Near the almost completed New Dawn Station was the beginnings of another station. Admiral Franos could see on the viewscreen on the bridge Task Force 21 and Combat Space Patrol flying from checkpoint to checkpoint. Second Fleet not only had combat ships but it was also bringing along 28 Grafting class freighters filled to the brink with materials for the station. Also 3 constructs the size of a monitor were also along with Second Fleet. They were Rome class construction ships. These were several of ships responsible for the building of the massive defensive networks throughout the Home Hive's domain. With these ships and the three more Romes on the way the station could be completed within 7 years. However what will be was not as fearsome at the moment of what already was. Second Fleet's combat element was comprised of:

2 Demon class supermonitors
3 Hellfire class supermonitors
7 Horatio class monitors
9 Nelson class monitors
4 Weber class monitors
19 Rex class superdreadnoughts
12 Libra class superdreadnoughts
5 Spitfire class superdreadnoughts
24 Antelope class battleships
13 Eminence class battleships
35 Acadia class battlecruisers
27 Eclipse class battlecruisers
120 Gunboats

There were no heavy or light cruisers in his fleet and no destroyers either. The battlecruisers were sufficent for a point defense screen plus the lighter elements were needed elsewhere. There were less supermonitors in Second Fleet than in Task Force 21 but the rest of Second Fleet made up for that. Anyway the were only 15 supermonitors in existence.

"Open a line to Vice Admiral Telik. We need to tell him of the plans this fleet has before we present our plans to Xessmithia. They will need some convincing for what we are going to propose." The comm officer nodded as Franos delivered his order.

Franos knew this was the beginning of a whole new episode in history.

"Sir, there's a large Aracnid construction force coming into the system."

"Right, open me a channel. Aracnid force please submit your construction plans so we may co-operate with you the most efficiently."

OOC: 9/10 complete

Vacuum fireworks exploded in amazing colours at the opening ceremonies of New Dawn Orbital Station. In a stadium sized auditorium Prime Minister Harold Juxton was adressing a crowd of a hundred and fifty thousand people.

"Honored guests and colonists welcome to the now complete New Dawn station. While parts of it have been open for years as they were completed earlier, it is not fully complete and operational. Congratulations to all of those who worked so hard over the last ten years to complete this magnificient station." Harold picked up a pair of gold ceremonial scissors and walked to the large scarlet ribbon stretching across the auditorium. With a rippling flash generated by thousands of cameras, Harold cut the ribbon. "I now declare this station offcially open."

All of a sudden a MC apears and lands near the opening ceramony and a man in a black suite steps out and says.


"Congratulations Xessmithia.
On behalf of AeroSpaceCity we are proud to present you with an award of peace(since you allowed those other nations to have pieces of the station) and scientific enhancement(the reason- the station is designed much more advanced and effiecent looking[very nice looking also])."

A massive energy surge occurs several million kilometers from the New Dawn station.... slowly a massive rift opens, the event horrizing undulating like a pool.

Lumbering out a massive 1.3km long 13.8 MT vessel pulls from the rift..... massive amounts of power can be detected emiting from inside her bulk. Along the side of the hull, the name, TRSS Pegasus BSG-2 can be seen, along with a massive Blue and Gold flag bearing a spread Eagle..... Moments later the power dies to a trickle, and the massive rift behind her slams shut in a burst of light and energy. A moment later.... a broadcast ensues.

"This is Commodore Fletcher, Commanding Officer of the Tekanian Republic Stellar Ship Pegasus.... We have a message for you from our president......"

Immediately text message ensues....


From: Eric D. Williamson, President of the Constitutional Republic of Tekania.
To: New Dawn Station, Xessmithia.

On behalf of the Republic, we wish to welcome you to space. The Pegasus is carrying several years worth of food and medical supplies that we wish to present you as a good faith gift on behalf of our people, in hopes of a peaceful and long friendship in space.


The TRSS Pegasus takes up station about 200 km from New Dawn station, and waits.

* The ECF Task Force 3 Warps in with Xessmithia's PM aboard *
Captain Wells Opened a Comm Channel to the Xessmithia station " This is captain wells of the ECF Federation Pride, I am very sorry we could not make it in time to aid you. Your Prime Minister is finishing a "debate" about weapons. However is there any more room for the ECF to build another moduel for military and trade reasons? Of crouse we would genersouly pay you. We also have a deilvery for you." The Captain Closed the COMM Channel.

A massive energy surge occurs several million kilometers from the New Dawn station.... slowly a massive rift opens, the event horrizing undulating like a pool.

Lumbering out a massive 1.3km long 13.8 MT vessel pulls from the rift..... massive amounts of power can be detected emiting from inside her bulk. Along the side of the hull, the name, TRSS Pegasus BSG-2 can be seen, along with a massive Blue and Gold flag bearing a spread Eagle..... Moments later the power dies to a trickle, and the massive rift behind her slams shut in a burst of light and energy. A moment later.... a broadcast ensues.

"This is Commodore Fletcher, Commanding Officer of the Tekanian Republic Stellar Ship Pegasus.... We have a message for you from our president......"

Immediately text message ensues....



The TRSS Pegasus takes up station about 200 km from New Dawn station, and waits.

Harold took the message form Tekania on his back to the ECF ships board room after his brief absence to give the opening speech, "I gladly accept your gracious gift on the behalf of Xessmithia. Please deliver them to cargo area 4 of New Dawn."

* The ECF Task Force 3 Warps in with Xessmithia's PM aboard *
Captain Wells Opened a Comm Channel to the Xessmithia station " This is captain wells of the ECF Federation Pride, I am very sorry we could not make it in time to aid you. Your Prime Minister is finishing a "debate" about weapons. However is there any more room for the ECF to build another moduel for military and trade reasons? Of crouse we would genersouly pay you. We also have a deilvery for you." The Captain Closed the COMM Channel.

We should have most of Frame 1 available for you. I think we can arrange that.

OOC: I'm to lazy to make my own Construction ships :D Lets finish our debate in the other thread 1st

* A massive ECF consurtion force warps into the system and starts going to work*

Captain Wells opened a comm channel " We have a delivery you may be interested in taking as soon as possible. Our ships are already putting together the prefabricated crap together. it should be done in about 2 weeks, we will pay as you see fit"

Aboard the TRSS Pegasus...

Lieutenant Jane Meyers recieves the message from the New Dawn station. "Sir we've recieved acknowledgement and acceptance of our message. They've requested us to deliver the supplies to Cargo Area 4."

"Acknowleged, tell cargo to begin loading the the supplies.... transport to these coordinates." commands Commodore Fletcher.

"Aye sir..." responds Lt. Meyers.

The Pegasus besings transport of supplies of food and medicine to Cargo Area 4....

OOC: I'm to lazy to make my own Construction ships :D Lets finish our debate in the other thread 1st

* A massive ECF consurtion force warps into the system and starts going to work*

Captain Wells opened a comm channel " We have a delivery you may be interested in taking as soon as possible. Our ships are already putting together the prefabricated crap together. it should be done in about 2 weeks, we will pay as you see fit"


Well about 50 billion USD should cover it. Wolf America got 4 frames after a 200 billion donation. Your frame is actually next to their section. It's dorsal frame 1, it's the oldest frame, but it's still state-of-the-art. Good luck.

Aboard the TRSS Pegasus...

Lieutenant Jane Meyers recieves the message from the New Dawn station. "Sir we've recieved acknowledgement and acceptance of our message. They've requested us to deliver the supplies to Cargo Area 4."

"Acknowleged, tell cargo to begin loading the the supplies.... transport to these coordinates." commands Commodore Fletcher.

"Aye sir..." responds Lt. Meyers.

The Pegasus besings transport of supplies of food and medicine to Cargo Area 4....


Kurt Magentire watched as the massive Pegasus began to offload supplies. They started arriving at his cargo area. "Well folks, lets get this stuff stowed." He said, and the crew began to pack away the offloaded supplies.

Well about 50 billion USD should cover it. Wolf America got 4 frames after a 200 billion donation. Your frame is actually next to their section. It's dorsal frame 1, it's the oldest frame, but it's still state-of-the-art. Good luck.
We are Beaming over the following by reqest of your PM. 1 WarpCore and 30 Warp Coiles and a Nachells to house them in we are beaming them over now. Please read the 500,000 page manuel before attemping to operate it.

We are Beaming over the following by reqest of your PM. 1 WarpCore and 30 Warp Coiles and a Nachells to house them in we are beaming them over now. Please read the 500,000 page manuel before attemping to operate it.

The warp core and materials arrived in New Dawn's propulsion lab. Along with a massive manual. The technician looking after the lab hefted the manual. He let it drop back to the desk and called in the leading physicists. "Well, mind as well get started, page 1." And he began to read.

After the last supplies come over, the TRSS Pegasus sends out a message.

"On behalf of the Republic we extend an invitation to all persons in the region to tour the Pegasus, including engineering areas, and the first ever open tour of the Kraskinov Generator room (no cameras or recording devices please)."

After the last supplies come over, the TRSS Pegasus sends out a message.

"On behalf of the Republic we extend an invitation to all persons in the region to tour the Pegasus, including engineering areas, and the first ever open tour of the Kraskinov Generator room (no cameras or recording devices please)."

After leaving Quinn to finish up the debate with Captain Wells of the ECF, Harold Juxton, Prime Minister of Xessmithia was free to take up Tekania's generous offer. "Of course I'll take a tour of that beastly ship of your's. It'd be a pleasure to see how you do things."

*bump*

Feel free to rent out space in New Dawn for trade or anything else you need. We offer top of the line labs for rent, excellent hospitals and anything else.

The massive meeting hall is done. The hall can hold 50,000 people.

OOC: The following is "classified information" so you can't you use it IC till it goes public or you see it in action or whatever. You know the drill.

Deep in the bowels of the station, Xessmithian's top physicists and engineers were working on a top secret project for the Xessmithian Navy. After receiving preliminary reports from the diplomatic discussions with East Coast Federation, the Department of High Energy Studies, DHES, was contraced by the XN to develop a weapon capable of being phased, as it was no clear such a weapon would give a great tactical advantage to XN vessels. After much discussion and debate the design team settled on the simplest approach, a multi-wavelength high energy laser. This weapon, being a laser, will have the ability to alter the laser's phase, wavelength and therefore frequency. Current plans call for a laser with a series of different lases which will alow it to produce laser beams from the infrared to ultraviolet wavelengths. Current energy yield estimates of the weapon are comparable to those of LinAc emplacements. It is estimated this project will take many years.


OOC2: To all Trekkies/Trekkers whatever out there, lasers WILL affect your shields and bring them down. And it will take 8 NS years to complete.

1/8 complete

The countdown reached zero and laser fired. A violet dot, 2 cm in diameter appeared on the target briefly before it disappeared in a plume of superheated plasma. The physicists running the test nodded in aproval, the project was coming along nicely.

OOC: 2/8 complete, feel free to add any OOC coments you may have.

Tranmission from TRSS Pegasus:


All personnel wishing for the tour arrive via the Port landing bay on the TRSS Pegasus.

Itenary for Tour:

1. Landing and Launch Bays.
2. Wasp Fighter RAIL Launchers
3. Craft Refit, Wasp fighters, Aurora Assault Shuttles, and Mule Heavy Transports
4. Bridge and Operations Center
5. Engineering, overview of the Pegasus' 4 MARC (Warp Plasma Reactors) and the ZPMA Reactor.
6. Acubeir (Warp Field) Generator Coils
7. Kraskinov Generator (Warp Gate) Room, with declassified overview.
8. Last visit to Ship's Mess, along with basic overview of the TRSS Pegasus weapons systems and armor, purpose and mission plans for Pegasus and other Tekanian "Orion Class" Sector Control Vessels. With overview of the Tekanian Republic Stellar Navy's current operations and fleet activities in the galaxy. Full menu for meal.

Direct Transmission-Xessmithia
Origin-ASC FlagShip Pheonix Of Ages

Good day Xessmithia.
We are here to comunicate about laser fire that seemed to be picked up by our Hyperspace sensors. Would you mind telling us what it was?

Direct Transmission-Xessmithia
Origin-ASC FlagShip Pheonix Of Ages

Good day Xessmithia.
We are here to comunicate about laser fire that seemed to be picked up by our Hyperspace sensors. Would you mind telling us what it was?

The vacuum test had been detected by an AeroSpaceCity ship, the physicists responded with the cover story. "We're testing some new mining equipment Phoenix of Ages, it's nothing to worry about. It's just some stuff a mining corporation contracted us to do."

Ok then. Carry on.

The tour begins....

An elder crewmembers enters the landing bay.

"Good day. I am Command Master Chief Cleet. I will be presenting the tour for you today. First, a brief overview of the area you are in now. This is the Pegasus' port Landing and Launch bay. It is almost 600 meters in length, and capable of handling large scale movement of persons and troops from the vessel. In addition there is an identical landing and launch bay on the starboard side of the vessel. The primary reason the Orion class vessels have the large scale landing and launch bays is for fleet colonization efforts. It gives these massive vessels the capablity to land large scale engineering efforts in colonization efforts. In addition it provides excess launch facilities for Wasp class warp-fighters. If you follow me...."

The CMC leads the tour down some stairs three levels down in the pod. Entering into a large set of tube-shapped areas, with gul-wing craft sitting upon rails.

"This is the Pegasus' RAIL launchers for our WASP class fighters. We have 80 of these launchers, 40 located outboard of each pod on the port and starboard sides of the vessel. In all the Pegasus carries 400 WASP fighters, and these launch facilities allow for rapid deployment of the fighters when operating in defense and assault situations. In addition to the WASP's, we have Aurora class heavy assault shuttles, for rapid deployment and close ground support of the Stellar MArines we have onboard. And Mule class heavy transports, for moving large cargo from the vessel to colonization and assault efforts. The Pegasus has managed to launch all 400 Wasp's in less then 30 minutes, with the rail launchers and from the landing bays. In heavy assault mode, against other heavy capital ships, these pods retract against the vessel's haul to lower our profile, and protect the interior of the bays. Now if you will all follow me, we'll make our way to the bridge...."

The chief steps into a large elevator like object, and waits for the tour group.....

Gunboat CSP seemed like ants against the newly named station Zephrain thought Telik. In the end the the station had ended up being 8.1 kilometers in hieght and 1.5 in width. It was a large amount of work and resources put into one structure. Even the supermonitors seemed small compared to it. Admiral Franos was somewhere in one of the behemoth caverns the station used as rooms giving a speech for the official opening of the station. And yet it wasn't entirely complete. Six superdreadnought class docking and fabrication bays with 12 battlecruiser class docking and fabrication bays were going to be added still; most of them would be added to the bottom part of the station which looked naked compared to the top part. Telik had argued against the official opening before they newly planned bays were done but Franos had said the bays were for military use only and the civilian parts of the station were done. Already the external ship construction yard on the very bottom of the station for larger projects was already creating several things that when completed would be rather big. Telik saw the beginnings of two space defense forts to be deployed around the New Dawn-Zephrain Station.
Also a third contruct could be seen. It was the new supermonitor which was designed to be for close combat and armed with energy armanents unlike the other supermonitors built so far. Although the ship was still far from completion you could see something strange in where the weapon emplacements were. The weapons had not been in yet but preparations were already made for a weapon. However you could tell from the abnormally large holes that the size of the weapon was unknown and so many different types of wires signified nobody knew the control systems or energy amount they were gonna take. It was clear the weapons for this ship had not been designed yet. Telik thought it was not his worry for the moment and went back to looking at the holoscreen of Franos giving his speech.

OOC:What the station looks like at the moment before the military docking bays are added.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v470/TheAracnids/AracnidStation2.bmp
OOC2:The zero-gee elevators to New Dawn Station are currently being completed.

The tour begins....

An elder crewmembers enters the landing bay.

"Good day. I am Command Master Chief Cleet. I will be presenting the tour for you today. First, a brief overview of the area you are in now. This is the Pegasus' port Landing and Launch bay. It is almost 600 meters in length, and capable of handling large scale movement of persons and troops from the vessel. In addition there is an identical landing and launch bay on the starboard side of the vessel. The primary reason the Orion class vessels have the large scale landing and launch bays is for fleet colonization efforts. It gives these massive vessels the capablity to land large scale engineering efforts in colonization efforts. In addition it provides excess launch facilities for Wasp class warp-fighters. If you follow me...."

The CMC leads the tour down some stairs three levels down in the pod. Entering into a large set of tube-shapped areas, with gul-wing craft sitting upon rails.

"This is the Pegasus' RAIL launchers for our WASP class fighters. We have 80 of these launchers, 40 located outboard of each pod on the port and starboard sides of the vessel. In all the Pegasus carries 400 WASP fighters, and these launch facilities allow for rapid deployment of the fighters when operating in defense and assault situations. In addition to the WASP's, we have Aurora class heavy assault shuttles, for rapid deployment and close ground support of the Stellar MArines we have onboard. And Mule class heavy transports, for moving large cargo from the vessel to colonization and assault efforts. The Pegasus has managed to launch all 400 Wasp's in less then 30 minutes, with the rail launchers and from the landing bays. In heavy assault mode, against other heavy capital ships, these pods retract against the vessel's haul to lower our profile, and protect the interior of the bays. Now if you will all follow me, we'll make our way to the bridge...."

The chief steps into a large elevator like object, and waits for the tour group.....


Prime Minister Juxton stood in awe of the massive interior bay. It was larger than the pre-liminary plans of a cruiser R&D had drawn up. It was extremely impressive. He followed the CMC to the fighter rails, he noted the idea and made a mental note to mention it to Quinn. He then follwed to the elevator like booth. "What's the crew compliment of a ship like this?" He asked.

Aboard New Dawn

The DHES research time was being more careful to control emmisions after the close call with the Phoenix of Ages. They were test firing the laser changing the phase and frequency during the firing. It fired, starting off in infrared the changing frequency and wavelength up to ultraviolet and back, changing phase 180 degrees and back. It was a glowing success. Now just to make a high-energy version.

OOC: 3/8 complete

The warp core and materials arrived in New Dawn's propulsion lab. Along with a massive manual. The technician looking after the lab hefted the manual. He let it drop back to the desk and called in the leading physicists. "Well, mind as well get started, page 1." And he began to read.

After a long, long time, the team of researchers had finally managed to throw the pasrts from ECF together and mount them on a modified Raptor corvette. It was ready for a test flight, it would launch tommorow. The people who had slaved to construct her wathed as the Don't Blow Up started heading out to a safe range.

A large ship appears out of hyperspace just out side of station defense. The ship defended by 120 stolen kryptonite cruisers sends a small ship and 4 helblidis to the station dock. When the small ships docks the 4 helblidis turn around and return to the large fleet. 6 people step out of the ship and start heading towards the research bay. The men are armed and are wearing the ASC military suits, but 1 is wearing a different suit more like a buissness suit to be exact.

[OOC:Guess who that guy is.]

Prime Minister Juxton stood in awe of the massive interior bay. It was larger than the pre-liminary plans of a cruiser R&D had drawn up. It was extremely impressive. He followed the CMC to the fighter rails, he noted the idea and made a mental note to mention it to Quinn. He then follwed to the elevator like booth. "What's the crew compliment of a ship like this?" He asked.

Aboard New Dawn

The DHES research time was being more careful to control emmisions after the close call with the Phoenix of Ages. They were test firing the laser changing the phase and frequency during the firing. It fired, starting off in infrared the changing frequency and wavelength up to ultraviolet and back, changing phase 180 degrees and back. It was a glowing success. Now just to make a high-energy version.

OOC: 3/8 complete

"Orion class vessels like the Pegasus carry 1800 crew and officers, 1500 Tekanian Marine's and 800 Pilots. We also have conversion capability to carry 4000 excess personnel for colonization and refugee rescue type missions." says the Master Chief.

The unit opens into a large room. In the front is a viewscreen, a raised deck near the back contains some sort of master control console. There are three officers present on that raised deck. Over to the starboard and port there are two more consoles, along with another two man console before the view screen. The Master Chief leads the group to the raised deck, where the three officers are standing....

"I'd like you to meet the Commanding Officer of the Pegasus, Commodore Herbert Fletcher, the Executive Officer, Captain Vincent R. Jones, and the Commandant of Marines, Major General Quinton S. VanMetre." says Master Chief Cleet.

One officer approaches. "Hello Prime Minister, I'm Commodore Fletcher, welcome to the Pegasus. Where we are standing right now, we call the con, short for 'control'. From here, me and the other senior officers coordinate mission activities, and battle plans. The console on the lower deck to starboard is 'Operations', Ops coordinates weapons, navigation and engineering systems, as well as plots navigational information from the Kraskinov, which you'll learn abit more about later. On the port side, we have Communications. Which is pretty self explanitory. And the lower center consoles are Helm and Weapons. The weapons station, as you see is empty, it is generally not manned unless we are at battle stations. During Battlestations, the ships senior weapons officers mans the station, and coordinates the 230 guns and 24 torpedo tubes of the Pegasus. The vessel has 80 170 terawatt phased particle cannons, and 150 50 tera watt phased particle cannons. For torpedos we carry 400 standard Matter/Anti-Matter warheads, and 250 Zero-Point warheads, enought to glass the surfaces of several planets if needed, however, the Pegasus has only ever fired one torpedo onto a planetary surface, and you'll find out more of that in the missions briefs later. Master Chief, please escort the group to engineering, I think they'll enjoy seeing what it takes to power a vessel like this." says Commodore Fletcher.

"Yes sir.... If you will follow me...." says Master Chief Cleet... and enters the lift again.

After a long, long time, the team of researchers had finally managed to throw the pasrts from ECF together and mount them on a modified Raptor corvette. It was ready for a test flight, it would launch tommorow. The people who had slaved to construct her wathed as the Don't Blow Up started heading out to a safe range.
Captain Wells: Well if you assempled the componts we gave you, the right way. You should be able to punch that up to warp 9.8.

A large ship appears out of hyperspace just out side of station defense. The ship defended by 120 stolen kryptonite cruisers sends a small ship and 4 helblidis to the station dock. When the small ships docks the 4 helblidis turn around and return to the large fleet. 6 people step out of the ship and start heading towards the research bay. The men are armed and are wearing the ASC military suits, but 1 is wearing a different suit more like a buissness suit to be exact.

[OOC:Guess who that guy is.]

OOC: "Hello, Mr. Anderson"

IC: As the 6 men started towards the research bay two armed Marine's blocked their path. "Sorry sirs but this area is restricted, there are numerous expermiments underway which involve hazardous chemicals and radioactive substances. We can't let you through unless you're authorized. You'll have to go to the DHES offices in ventral frame twelve to get your authorization."

In the research labs the physicists were evacuating their lab. It would be sealed and flooded with uranium hexaflouride gas as a cover. The equipment would not be damaged as it would coverd by an NPA sheath. They would take up a new lab, with low powered mining lasers to complete the cover.

OOC2: 4/8 complete

The lift arives in a large room. In it, 4 large conduits shoot up and down several decks, centering in the chamber. Three lie dormant, and one pulses and hums very low. Massive Plasma conduits emerge from the centers of each conduit, Three of them channel into another large object in the center of the room, which also lies dormant.

"This is main engineering" says the Master Chief. "As you can see, at present only 1 MARC, that's Matter-Antimatter Reaction Chamber, is running. This is common in normal situations at present. Generally the vessels main systems are powered off of the single operation MARC. The other units are for auxillary units, and sometimes used to power the Acubeir Warp drive aboard the Pegasus. In addition the other three are brought online and channeled through that large unit there. That is a Zero-Point Reactor, which greatly enhances the power from the three MARC's. That is used for power to the Kraskinov Generator. I know all this, with the exception of ammount, is pretty hum-drum. So we'll be getting to the real beef now."

The Master Chief enters another lift, and takes the tour to the Kraskinov. The lift opens into another massive room. In the center a massive ring-like object sits dormant in the center of the room, with two massive plasma conduits leading into it.

"This is the Kraskinov Generator." says the Master Chief. "The single most advanced piece of 'propulsion' technology in the Republic, or in the known universe for that matter. If you want to consider the idea 'propulsion' that is. It is made of a rare and exotic material, which, I am sorry to say, is classified. The unit requires alot of power... so much power in fact, very little else can be powered except life support and minor defensive systems and maneuvering thrusters when the drive is online. In lay man's terms, the Kraskinov creates an artificial and temporary worm hole through two points in space, allowing virtually instantaneous travel between any two points. Distance is irregardless, though the further you project the wormhole, the more power is required to sustain it. The theoretical limit on the Pegasus' Kraskinov has been set at around 200 million light years, though we've not used it past 3.5 million light years. You can think of it as a mobile warp-gate, but much faster in transit. Of course it does have certain draw backs, the area you are gating into has to be at least somewhat known, to avoid gating into any planetary bodies or what not."

The lift arives in a large room. In it, 4 large conduits shoot up and down several decks, centering in the chamber. Three lie dormant, and one pulses and hums very low. Massive Plasma conduits emerge from the centers of each conduit, Three of them channel into another large object in the center of the room, which also lies dormant.

"This is main engineering" says the Master Chief. "As you can see, at present only 1 MARC, that's Matter-Antimatter Reaction Chamber, is running. This is common in normal situations at present. Generally the vessels main systems are powered off of the single operation MARC. The other units are for auxillary units, and sometimes used to power the Acubeir Warp drive aboard the Pegasus. In addition the other three are brought online and channeled through that large unit there. That is a Zero-Point Reactor, which greatly enhances the power from the three MARC's. That is used for power to the Kraskinov Generator. I know all this, with the exception of ammount, is pretty hum-drum. So we'll be getting to the real beef now."

The Master Chief enters another lift, and takes the tour to the Kraskinov. The lift opens into another massive room. In the center a massive ring-like object sits dormant in the center of the room, with two massive plasma conduits leading into it.

"This is the Kraskinov Generator." says the Master Chief. "The single most advanced piece of 'propulsion' technology in the Republic, or in the known universe for that matter. If you want to consider the idea 'propulsion' that is. It is made of a rare and exotic material, which, I am sorry to say, is classified. The unit requires alot of power... so much power in fact, very little else can be powered except life support and minor defensive systems and maneuvering thrusters when the drive is online. In lay man's terms, the Kraskinov creates an artificial and temporary worm hole through two points in space, allowing virtually instantaneous travel between any two points. Distance is irregardless, though the further you project the wormhole, the more power is required to sustain it. The theoretical limit on the Pegasus' Kraskinov has been set at around 200 million light years, though we've not used it past 3.5 million light years. You can think of it as a mobile warp-gate, but much faster in transit. Of course it does have certain draw backs, the area you are gating into has to be at least somewhat known, to avoid gating into any planetary bodies or what not."


Prime Minister Juxton nodded along with the Master Chief. He looked at the Kraskinov generator, it looked very similar to a tachyon coil generator, although it wasn't coiled and was hugely more massive. "If you were to place a Kraskinov in a jump-gate, would that not make the whole system safer, and would allow for longer distances as you would have uninterupted power?" He asked the Master Chief.

Gunboat CSP seemed like ants against the newly named station Zephrain thought Telik. In the end the the station had ended up being 8.1 kilometers in hieght and 1.5 in width. It was a large amount of work and resources put into one structure. Even the supermonitors seemed small compared to it. Admiral Franos was somewhere in one of the behemoth caverns the station used as rooms giving a speech for the official opening of the station. And yet it wasn't entirely complete. Six superdreadnought class docking and fabrication bays with 12 battlecruiser class docking and fabrication bays were going to be added still; most of them would be added to the bottom part of the station which looked naked compared to the top part. Telik had argued against the official opening before they newly planned bays were done but Franos had said the bays were for military use only and the civilian parts of the station were done. Already the external ship construction yard on the very bottom of the station for larger projects was already creating several things that when completed would be rather big. Telik saw the beginnings of two space defense forts to be deployed around the New Dawn-Zephrain Station.
Also a third contruct could be seen. It was the new supermonitor which was designed to be for close combat and armed with energy armanents unlike the other supermonitors built so far. Although the ship was still far from completion you could see something strange in where the weapon emplacements were. The weapons had not been in yet but preparations were already made for a weapon. However you could tell from the abnormally large holes that the size of the weapon was unknown and so many different types of wires signified nobody knew the control systems or energy amount they were gonna take. It was clear the weapons for this ship had not been designed yet. Telik thought it was not his worry for the moment and went back to looking at the holoscreen of Franos giving his speech.

OOC:What the station looks like at the moment before the military docking bays are added.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v...nidStation2.bmp
OOC2:The zero-gee elevators to New Dawn Station are currently being completed.

Bruce Armstrong, governor of New Dawn Orbital, looked out at the Aracnid station. Zephrain they were calling it. The half-complete zero-gee elevator was a mere thread compared to the bulk of the station. Bruce zoomed his screen in on one of the Aracnid ships, a supermonitor he remembered, that was being escorted, not that it needed it, by a Cyclone destroyer, which was a mere speck in comparison to the massive SM. It was good to see it coming along so nicely. He smiled, New Dawn was a very good investment, a very good investment indeed.

The Don't Blow Up was ready to launch, onboard Lieutenant-Commander Ron Higgs was pacing the cramped CIC nervously. "Are all the systems on-line Chen?" He asked the ops officer.

"Yes sir. We're ready to go on your order." The short woman answered.

"All right then, throw open the flood gates on that experimental M/AM reactor and send us into warp." Chen nodded at the order and the Don't Blow Up's single nacelle flashed and the ship elongated and disappeared in a flash on Cerenkov radiation. The small crew watched the strarlines move by slowly as the ship crawled through space at what the ECF called Warp 1.

"We're at warp one sir." Chen said.

"Go up to warp 3." Higgs ordered, the starlines moved faster correspondingly. After a moment he ordered an increase to warp 5.

"We're at warp 5 sir." Chen said, the trip seemed smooth until suddenly the warp core containment field shut down. The ship dropped out of warp and the core was ejected, which only seconds later detonated with a force of 107 megatons, just barely far enough away for the Don't Blow Up to avoid damage.

Higgs looked at the shocked faces of the CIC crew. "Well," he said, "at least we didn't blow up."

OOC: The Don't Blow Up looks like this
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v422/Xessmithia/DBU.jpg

Prime Minister Juxton nodded along with the Master Chief. He looked at the Kraskinov generator, it looked very similar to a tachyon coil generator, although it wasn't coiled and was hugely more massive. "If you were to place a Kraskinov in a jump-gate, would that not make the whole system safer, and would allow for longer distances as you would have uninterupted power?" He asked the Master Chief.

"Well..." says the Master Chief, "It isn't even known of the two would be compatible. The primary reason the Kraskinov is implimented is for its mobility, vice the stationary, and more conventional warp-gate and jump-gate technoligies. Mind you, only these large Orion class SCV's can power and hold this, which is why most of the deep space, and colonization efforts operate in fleet type activities. Basically the entire fleet uses the Orion's Kraskinov to mobilize. it allows for rapid deployment, even from areas where you wouldn't have an existing gate. Especially colonization missions. The primary missions these Orions run in is Colonization, Defense and Exploration. The Kraskinov gives us an edge in that aspect."

The militants raised thier arms and told the marines to move or they would have to force thier way through.Meanwile three huge dome-toped citadels connected with the Pheonix Of Ages outside the station and began prep to dock with the station. As civilians and workers alike on the station watched a large fleet of helblidis, Stolen ships, and 5 giant farad systems waited for thretining actions made by the station and personel. Back in the station the four militants with weapons raised get a call from the station that they were docking. The five men turned around and headed towards the docking station. Were they met with more men from the gigantic space colony's 1,000,000,000+ militants awaiting orders.

OOC: Ha try to beat the giant fleet and a huge warship.Muahahahahaha...? Just kidding.I created an area for any nations on official buisness to dock with the station the region is call Xessmithia Space Station.

The militants raised thier arms and told the marines to move or they would have to force thier way through.Meanwile three huge dome-toped citadels connected with the Pheonix Of Ages outside the station and began prep to dock with the station. As civilians and workers alike on the station watched a large fleet of helblidis, Stolen ships, and 5 giant farad systems waited for thretining actions made by the station and personel. Back in the station the four militants with weapons raised get a call from the station that they were docking. The five men turned around and headed towards the docking station. Were they met with more men from the gigantic space colony's 1,000,000,000+ militants awaiting orders.

OOC: Ha try to beat the giant fleet and a huge warship.Muahahahahaha...? Just kidding.I created an area for any nations on official buisness to dock with the station the region is call Xessmithia Space Station.

The two marines had just finished their instructions when four of the six men drew what appeared to be sub-machine guns and demanded to be let by or else they would have to use force. The marines acted fast, they drew their sidearms, confident that their police caliber body armor would allow them to survive long enough to take down the hostiles. There was a brief stand-off, but then the hostiles seemed to get a message and broke off.

The marines didn't waste the time, they stepped back into the lab access way and sealed the blast doors. One then called for re-enforcements, while the other activated the emergency alarm.

All through the station alarm klaxons went off and all blast doors were sealed. New Dawn's hull-hugging NPA shield went on, violently disconecting the ships which had docked as the molecules that made up their docking connectors were torn apart in a spectacular release of Coulomb energy.

Marines rushed to defensive stations in full battle-armor through the now depressurized sections around the intruders. It would be one hell of a fight.

OOC: 4.5/8 complete, and the marines in battle armor look like this http://perfectdark.detstar.com/cscharacters/dd_shock.jpg

The fleet tender towing the Don't Blow Up stopped. "Sorry about the delay guys. But there seems to be a situation at New Dawn. It's going to be a few hours."

Communications insue from the Pegasus....


The is the TRSS Pegasus, to New Dawn Station, do you require assistance.....


Deep in the heart of the Pegasus....

"Master Chief Cleet......" says the Ship's 1MC. "Please contact the bridge."

"Excuse me sir..." The master chief says. And then goes to a small panel. Talking on it for abit. He then comes back to the PM.

"Sir, I'm sorry, the tour needs to end, appearantly there is a situation erupting at New Dawn station...."

The Pheonix shield of the ASC station quickly regain after being torn apart by the new dawn station. The station and all Fleets went into action firing repeatative fires towards the new dawn. On the new dawn at the dock station the 6 men had arived only 10 marines were left from the separation so they continued blasting as many opposing unit they could to the launch bay to steal any ship that could go through the sield. Picked up by one of the newdawn cameras the man in the suit said "I wish it hadn't come to this, but they forced it on me," the man pulled a little raidio out of his pocket and called for the satalites Zion and Remly to open fire on the station. One of the marines asked him "Are you crazy? those weapons could kill us!" The man in the suit said back "No they won't, we have enough time to leave the station. Meanwile on the Pheonix Of Ages(POA) on the control deck commander and chief Haxx Blue began charging for the two satalites. The satalites with shields up and barrels loaded began firing. Meanwhile on a distant planet a new ship is being activated the ships name... I can not tell.

The Pheonix shield of the ASC station quickly regain after being torn apart by the new dawn station. The station and all Fleets went into action firing repeatative fires towards the new dawn. On the new dawn at the dock station the 6 men had arived only 10 marines were left from the separation so they continued blasting as many opposing unit they could to the launch bay to steal any ship that could go through the sield. Picked up by one of the newdawn cameras the man in the suit said "I wish it hadn't come to this, but they forced it on me," the man pulled a little raidio out of his pocket and called for the satalites Zion and Remly to open fire on the station. One of the marines asked him "Are you crazy? those weapons could kill us!" The man in the suit said back "No they won't, we have enough time to leave the station. Meanwile on the Pheonix Of Ages(POA) on the control deck commander and chief Haxx Blue began charging for the two satalites. The satalites with shields up and barrels loaded began firing. Meanwhile on a distant planet a new ship is being activated the ships name... I can not tell.

Admiral Armishaw was in the CIC of New Dawn station as the attack began. Viewscreens showed the flashes where the shields stopped the incoming fire. "Report." He ordered, he knew what was going on from the huge holo-tank projecting the master plot, but it was standard procedure.

"Shields holding sir. The Phoenix of Ages isn't attacking, just the new comers sir." The ops officer said.

"Then we're dealing with rebels." Armishaw said smugly, "Target the nearest hostile captial ship and give her all you got." On the admiral's orders New Dawn's enitre LinAc compliment unleashed a massive broadside into the the nearest ship. A split second later, after the waepons had recharged, it sent another blistering barage of fire into the same ship.

The XN ships that had been in the immediate area joined with the Xessmithian Aerospace Force attack. A force of over a hundred XASF-18s and XASF-20s flung themselves at the attacking force, LinAc fire ripping into shields and hull metal wherever they could find it. Several launched the new Preserver Mk.2 Kinetic missiles, carrying a hundred and twenty megatons of kinetic energy to their targets.

Aboard New Dawn

Gunnery Sergeant Kowalsky was leading his 15 marines to the docking bay. Security cameras had told that there were 16 armed intruders secured there, 10 of them in battle armor. He silently thanked the powers that be that he was only one of four marine sqauds assaulting the docking bay.

They reached the blast doors, their deadly assault weapons firing one gram bullets at 30 km/s were locked and loaded. On the signal, the doors opened and the squad burst in with 45 other marines at the same time, their entrance points offset so they aren't in each others field of fire. The intruders opened fire, Kowalsky heard a grunt as one of his men took a blast to the chest, Kowalsky returned fire sending a short burst of hardened steel at the hostiles. One of them went down, a gaping hole where his chest once was. Kowalsky continued to fire, making his 120 round magazine last. He turned to fire on one of the enemy battle armored marines, he opened fire at the same time the hostile did. He felt an enormous pressure on his chest, then stared at the ceiling wondering what had happened, then his vision blacked, and he wondered no more.

New Dawn CIC

Admiral Armishaw was staring at the plot, two new icons with massive energy signatures had appeared. The POA was moving to intercept them, but he had a surprise in store for those two weapon platforms. "Load two Class D Ragnorok missiles and target on those platforms." He waited until the ops officer confirmed his order, Armishaw smiled smugly, "Open fire."

Communications insue from the Pegasus....



Deep in the heart of the Pegasus....

"Master Chief Cleet......" says the Ship's 1MC. "Please contact the bridge."

"Excuse me sir..." The master chief says. And then goes to a small panel. Talking on it for abit. He then comes back to the PM.

"Sir, I'm sorry, the tour needs to end, appearantly there is a situation erupting at New Dawn station...."

Harold shook his head, "Why must everyone attack our station?" His rhetorical question went, or course, unanswered. He turned to the Master Chief, "Show me back to my shuttle. I need to return to Xess immediately."

*bump*

The physicists didn't stop working even though the station was under siege. They had infact just discovered a key theoretical component of the lasers operation. This was a huge boon to the project.

OOC: 6/8 complete

Passing time tinkering with the mining laser of the cover lab, the physicist were making small adjustments that had increased the power output of the laser.

OOC: 6.5/8 complete. And AeroSpaceCity, you there? If you're busy I'm not in a hurry.

OOC: I could just give you guys a hand phaser to work off of.

OOC: I could just give you guys a hand phaser to work off of.

OOC: Thanks but no thanks. I'm gonna stick with the laser. It's a light-speed weapon unlike phasers.

OOC: Thanks but no thanks. I'm gonna stick with the laser. It's a light-speed weapon unlike phasers.
OOC: you do realize that a Phaser can be far more devasting agnist many types of sheilding , as a I said it can be modulated, and phasers fire in beams

OOC: you do realize that a Phaser can be far more devasting agnist many types of sheilding , as a I said it can be modulated, and phasers fire in beams

Lasers fire in beams, hence the well known term laser beam. Laser light is coherent focused light. Since light is EM-radiation, it can be modulated like any otehr wave can, and since it is coherent it is much more deadly than an equal amount of energy of incoherent light.

OOC: It doesn't matter if it's a laser or phaser. If you "phase" you laser it becomes a phaser. You can't say " since it is coherent it is much more deadly than an equal amount of energy of incoherent light" If there is an equal amount of energy going into each weapon, they will do an equal amount of damage. What your creating is in a sense a super phaser.

OOC: It doesn't matter if it's a laser or phaser. If you "phase" you laser it becomes a phaser. You can't say " since it is coherent it is much more deadly than an equal amount of energy of incoherent light" If there is an equal amount of energy going into each weapon, they will do an equal amount of damage. What your creating is in a sense a super phaser.

OOC: Umm.. you don't seem to understand what phase means. Anything that involves a wave form of motion has a phase Light, shields, springs, ponds after you toss a rock in, all have a phase. It's just the way waves work, it's called wave mechanics.

Also if I were creating a "super phaser" by making a high power laser, that would imply that phasers are just lower powered lasers. It is quite clear from ST that phasers ARE NOT lasers. So I'm not making a phaser. Phasers act and look like particle beams, slower than light and visible. Lasers are invisible and travel at c.

And as for deadliness look at it this way. Lets say you have x number of joules of energy, you deliver it via an incoherent light and a coherent light. The incoherent light spreads the energy out over a large area as it spreads out. The coherent light delivers all of it's energy into a small pinpoint area. This means that the coherent light does more damage.

OOC: For the physics in mind, it does not matter whether it is a focused beam of light or what not. Phasers do not operate on incoherant light. Phasers use a focused beam of rapid nadions. For the tech savvy, nadions are a near rest sub-atomic particle, and act to disrupt the nuclear binding force between particles inside of an atom. Rather than rely on the imparting of EM radiation to "excite molecules" as LASERS do. Natively Phasers are sublight weapons, traveling at near c, and decelerating slowly as they reached their targets. This is not the present case however, the usage of sub-space ACB's (Annular Confinement Beams) allow the firing of phasers as FTL speeds. The primary reason most space farers flip from LASER to PHASER technology has nothing to do with that, it has to do with efficiency. Phaser systems have much less energy loss over LASERS, because of the stages, the typical phaser array is a 0 form system, power to the emitter directly forms the beam, LASERS typically operate with 3 or more energy stages between emiter and beam, so LASER efficiency is much less. You can still have lasers that are more powerful than phasers, but it takes more power to produce a 15 MJ laser than a 15MJ Phaser. but 15MJ Laser is no more "powerfull" in its effect on the target than a 15MJ Phaser.

Soon after the others begin firing the pheonix of ages starts charging what seems to be a beamed weapon. From the front of the pheonix it looks like a giant arc angel is appearing. Soon after charging the beam blasts ripping through time and space strait at the new dawn station. Over the comms line came a voice, "Open the bay or the ray will tear you apart. All we want is to help with the beam system. Since we have perfected rays already. Either open the bay doors... Or die." The transmission ended and left the new dawn to think. Mean while onboard the pheonix, the computer marked the time and sent it to new dawn station, "4 min. till ray impact." Meanwhile the ASC warships and such pulled back franticly.

OOC: The reason it will take that much time is because the pheonix backed off.

OOC: you do realize that a Phaser can be far more devasting agnist many types of sheilding , as a I said it can be modulated, and phasers fire in beams

That is a powerful weapon... That is like what we have, but ours is more devastating. we call it the gravity cannon beam, it kills most of our enemies and removes unwanted citys.(also it kills stations that dont alow someone with this tech to help them.)

"2 min. till ray impact."

OOC: For the physics in mind, it does not matter whether it is a focused beam of light or what not. Phasers do not operate on incoherant light. Phasers use a focused beam of rapid nadions. For the tech savvy, nadions are a near rest sub-atomic particle, and act to disrupt the nuclear binding force between particles inside of an atom. Rather than rely on the imparting of EM radiation to "excite molecules" as LASERS do. Natively Phasers are sublight weapons, traveling at near c, and decelerating slowly as they reached their targets. This is not the present case however, the usage of sub-space ACB's (Annular Confinement Beams) allow the firing of phasers as FTL speeds. The primary reason most space farers flip from LASER to PHASER technology has nothing to do with that, it has to do with efficiency. Phaser systems have much less energy loss over LASERS, because of the stages, the typical phaser array is a 0 form system, power to the emitter directly forms the beam, LASERS typically operate with 3 or more energy stages between emiter and beam, so LASER efficiency is much less. You can still have lasers that are more powerful than phasers, but it takes more power to produce a 15 MJ laser than a 15MJ Phaser. but 15MJ Laser is no more "powerfull" in its effect on the target than a 15MJ Phaser.

OOC: I was explaining that a laser is more destructive than incoherent light, such as that from a flashlight not more destructuve than a phaser. And lasers may be more difficult to generate but they won't lose any noticeable amount energy on the way to the target like a particle beam will, especially in a vacuum. And phasers travel nowhere near c, that's clear from Star Trek. If they did they'd probably do more damage from kinetic energy than releasing the nuclear force of a few atoms. And that's why I have LinAc weapons along with these new lasers.

Soon after the others begin firing the pheonix of ages starts charging what seems to be a beamed weapon. From the front of the pheonix it looks like a giant arc angel is appearing. Soon after charging the beam blasts ripping through time and space strait at the new dawn station. Over the comms line came a voice, "Open the bay or the ray will tear you apart. All we want is to help with the beam system. Since we have perfected rays already. Either open the bay doors... Or die." The transmission ended and left the new dawn to think. Mean while onboard the pheonix, the computer marked the time and sent it to new dawn station, "4 min. till ray impact." Meanwhile the ASC warships and such pulled back franticly.

OOC: The reason it will take that much time is because the pheonix backed off.

The ops officer's jaw dropped, "Sir! The Phoenix of Ages is charging what appears to be a massively powerful energy weapon!" He paused, "They demand that they be allowed to dock so they can help with some sort of beam project!"

Armishaw shuddered, they want to help with the Heterodyne project. Like I buy that, they sent armed marines to do the talking for them then attacked a colony of 5 million civillians he thought, They're being real helpfull indeed.

"Send word to Xess, we need them to extend the planetary shield around the station. That'll hold off any attack that ship can deliver." The ops officer nodded and sent the order, it would put a lot of strain on the planetary shield, but it didn't have to last for long. Armishaw checked the station's armory, 100 Class D Ragnorok missiles, 400 Type V Mk.2 Preservers and an egual number of Type V Nemesis torpedoes. It would do, he thought.

"Have all ships fire their complete ordanace on POA on my mark, it's time to show ECF what we mean by overwhelimg firepower." When the timer reached two minutes to impact, the planetary shield had been modified and the largest fusilade, a combined yield of over 14,600 gigatons, in Xessmethian history was ready to go. Armishaw smiled again, "Mark."

The missiles flew forth in a salvo over almost a thousand missiles strong, more than enough to overcome any point defence. At the same moment, the planetary shield released a large amount of gas into itself, making it complete opaque to shield agaist the fireball which would spring forth and would be more intense than a thousand suns.

OOC: I was explaining that a laser is more destructive than incoherent light, such as that from a flashlight not more destructuve than a phaser. And lasers may be more difficult to generate but they won't lose any noticeable amount energy on the way to the target like a particle beam will, especially in a vacuum. And phasers travel nowhere near c, that's clear from Star Trek. If they did they'd probably do more damage from kinetic energy than releasing the nuclear force of a few atoms. And that's why I have LinAc weapons along with these new lasers.

OOC: Natively they travel near c (about 80-90% Light speed, sub-space ACB's however allow Phasers to travel at FTL. The ACB acts to 'focus' the beam inside a small region of subspace. And power-loss over distance is a minor inconvienience compared to the tactical problems with lasers. Generally a phaser needs to be blocked by energy shielding and armor, LASERS have the unfortuneate concept of operating on classic EM radiation, which is relatively easily blocked... in the history of space flight lasers, operating on certain wavelengths have been known to simply pass through targets with no ill effects, or in some cases even REFLECT off the target and hit the ship that fired it in the first place (refraction and reflection problems). So LASERS are not without their own massive problems.

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Onboard the Pegasus.....

"Sound Battlestations...." commands Commodore Fletcher... "And send a signal to Eagle One that we may need assistance."

"Aye sir..." responds both LTJG Scott and LT Meyers in tandem.

Onboard klaxons begin sounding, and the Pegasus massive shield generators and regenerative armor go online...

"Helm, take us within range of that AerospaceCity fleet...." Commands Commodore Fletcher.... "LT Meyers, open up a channel to New Dawn..."

"Channel open sir...." says Lt. Meyers.


New Dawn Station, this is the TRSS Pegasus, do you request assistance.....


With a signal he cuts transmission.

"Open another channel to the Aerospace fleet..." Com. Fletcher commands again.

"Open sir..." responds Lt. Meyers...


AerospaceCity fleet, we respectfully ask you to stand down, and demand to know your purpose and intentions....

OOC: Natively they travel near c (about 80-90% Light speed, sub-space ACB's however allow Phasers to travel at FTL. The ACB acts to 'focus' the beam inside a small region of subspace. And power-loss over distance is a minor inconvienience compared to the tactical problems with lasers. Generally a phaser needs to be blocked by energy shielding and armor, LASERS have the unfortuneate concept of operating on classic EM radiation, which is relatively easily blocked... in the history of space flight lasers, operating on certain wavelengths have been known to simply pass through targets with no ill effects, or in some cases even REFLECT off the target and hit the ship that fired it in the first place (refraction and reflection problems). So LASERS are not without their own massive problems.

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Onboard the Pegasus.....

"Sound Battlestations...." commands Commodore Fletcher... "And send a signal to Eagle One that we may need assistance."

"Aye sir..." responds both LTJG Scott and LT Meyers in tandem.

Onboard klaxons begin sounding, and the Pegasus massive shield generators and regenerative armor go online...

"Helm, take us within range of that AerospaceCity fleet...." Commands Commodore Fletcher.... "LT Meyers, open up a channel to New Dawn..."

"Channel open sir...." says Lt. Meyers.



With a signal he cuts transmission.

"Open another channel to the Aerospace fleet..." Com. Fletcher commands again.

"Open sir..." responds Lt. Meyers...


OOC: LASERS are EM radiation, that means they can be reflected and refracted and all that. Of course I'm not stupid, I know all that. I'll just keep from shooting a laser at ships that have an albedo of almost 1, I'll use LinAc cannons instead. I'll aslo make sure to angle my shots so that they don't reflect back at a 90 degree angle.

And it's been my experience that very few people build completely transparent ships, of course if they do I can just take my time vaporizing the crew and vital systems directly as the laser can pass right through the hull. And do you have any idea of how hard it is to stop light with high wavelengths? Gamma rays are hugely penetrative. And the whole point of lasers is to put them on opaque substances to do damage to them. EM shielding will do jack all against a laser. I think the advantages greatly outweigh the disadvantages.

And if you look at ST episodes, phasers travel at a couple hundred km/s. Most definetely not 80-90% c, maybe 10% c if they're lucky.

IC:

Armishaw had received the hail from the Pegasus. "Any help you could deliver would be much appreciated. But be warned, we just launched a massive missile strike, you're going to want to hold back till it's over."

OOC: LASERS are EM radiation, that means they can be reflected and refracted and all that. Of course I'm not stupid, I know all that. I'll just keep from shooting a laser at ships that have an albedo of almost 1, I'll use LinAc cannons instead. I'll aslo make sure to angle my shots so that they don't reflect back at a 90 degree angle.

And it's been my experience that very few people build completely transparent ships, of course if they do I can just take my time vaporizing the crew and vital systems directly as the laser can pass right through the hull. And do you have any idea of how hard it is to stop light with high wavelengths? Gamma rays are hugely penetrative. And the whole point of lasers is to put them on opaque substances to do damage to them. EM shielding will do jack all against a laser. I think the advantages greatly outweigh the disadvantages.

And if you look at ST episodes, phasers travel at a couple hundred km/s. Most definetely not 80-90% c, maybe 10% c if they're lucky.

IC:

Armishaw had received the hail from the Pegasus. "Any help you could deliver would be much appreciated. But be warned, we just launched a massive missile strike, you're going to want to hold back till it's over."

OOC: on the record most of the people using ST technologies don't use EM shielding they use gravometric shielding (Tekania's shielding technology is ST class gravometric type shielding) which is effective against lasers. (Interestingly enough most ST fields and shields, including tractor technolgy is all gravometric, same with Warp collameter fields.... so you could say ST technology advanced past EM type to gravity type technologies, as opposed to other tech bases which are still heavily EM in nature... side tracked..... And more modern ST type technologies (which some people are using at least) phasers and phased particle cannons, are using sub-space ACB's to jacket the phaser beam in a subspace field during firing, in effect creating a FTL weapon capable of firing at FTL speeds. Though the .8-.9c rating came from the STTNG technical manual.... sub-space ACB has been on since laterDS9/VOY, and would be used by anyone adopting post VOY tech for their NS space RPing. Phasers have also been used to fire things other then RNE type beams, including riding nanites in ACB's from the emiter arrays. All this is side note anyway... Laser are a effective combat weapon in space.... but I won't argue they are any better or worse than Phasers.

Also, by ST standards Phasers would need to be significantly faster than .1c, otherwise they wouldn't be able to fire them at full impulse (which is more than twice that... Full Impulse is .25c, however it is possible to go faster than that on impulse drives (as far as .99c has been known)).

IC:

--- Onboard the Pegasus

"Mr. Scott, send to Eagle One we need re-enforcements..." commands Commodore Fletcher.

"Aye sir....." responds Lt. Scott

"Ops, retract the pods........" commands Fletcher.

"Sir," says Lt. Scott, "Eagle One acknowledges and sends that Zeus and Chronos are arriving with 3rd and 2nd fleets, and Orion will try to arive with 1st fleet. Zeus and Chronos will be here shortly."

"Thank you lieutenant...." says Commodore Fletcher.... "Helm hold position to the New Dawn's barrage is clear..... Weapons, charge cannons, standby torpedoes...... I want you to keep a target lock on that one big one.... do not fire till I give the order....."

OOC: on the record most of the people using ST technologies don't use EM shielding they use gravometric shielding (Tekania's shielding technology is ST class gravometric type shielding) which is effective against lasers. (Interestingly enough most ST fields and shields, including tractor technolgy is all gravometric, same with Warp collameter fields.... so you could say ST technology advanced past EM type to gravity type technologies, as opposed to other tech bases which are still heavily EM in nature... side tracked..... And more modern ST type technologies (which some people are using at least) phasers and phased particle cannons, are using sub-space ACB's to jacket the phaser beam in a subspace field during firing, in effect creating a FTL weapon capable of firing at FTL speeds. Though the .8-.9c rating came from the STTNG technical manual.... sub-space ACB has been on since laterDS9/VOY, and would be used by anyone adopting post VOY tech for their NS space RPing. Phasers have also been used to fire things other then RNE type beams, including riding nanites in ACB's from the emiter arrays. All this is side note anyway... Laser are a effective combat weapon in space.... but I won't argue they are any better or worse than Phasers.

Also, by ST standards Phasers would need to be significantly faster than .1c, otherwise they wouldn't be able to fire them at full impulse (which is more than twice that... Full Impulse is .25c, however it is possible to go faster than that on impulse drives (as far as .99c has been known)).

OOC: I know ST shields aren't EM, but for those shields that are lasers will be unafected. And I base my phaser velocity on the cannon tv show, they're always fired at close range(< 10km) and non-relatavistic speeds. Since you can see the phaser beam propagate it can't be moving more than 300 km/s tops, 3-30km/s is a more accurate guess.

Also ST shields don't behave as if they were gravimetric in origin. If they were weapons would be bent around the ship, that's not what happens. I don't know what they are, but gravimetric isn't it. Also gravity is the weakest of the 4 fundamental forces, electromagnetism is many orders of magnitude stronger than gravity. Electromagnetics makes for much more powerful weapons and easier storage for anti-matter, and moving materials and so on.

Of course I'm not saying ST tech is inefectual, I just like going on about stuff like this, it's a passion of mine I guess.

OOC: I know ST shields aren't EM, but for those shields that are lasers will be unafected. And I base my phaser velocity on the cannon tv show, they're always fired at close range(< 10km) and non-relatavistic speeds. Since you can see the phaser beam propagate it can't be moving more than 300 km/s tops, 3-30km/s is a more accurate guess.

Also ST shields don't behave as if they were gravimetric in origin. If they were weapons would be bent around the ship, that's not what happens. I don't know what they are, but gravimetric isn't it. Also gravity is the weakest of the 4 fundamental forces, electromagnetism is many orders of magnitude stronger than gravity. Electromagnetics makes for much more powerful weapons and easier storage for anti-matter, and moving materials and so on.

Of course I'm not saying ST tech is inefectual, I just like going on about stuff like this, it's a passion of mine I guess.

OOC: ST tech shields are a layer of gravitons encased between two subspace barriers... same as their "forcefield" technology. Energy impacting against the shield (Deflector shields) channel around the shield and dissipate into space.... aka gravimetric. It acts like a "shell" rather than a well.

The ops officer's jaw dropped, "Sir! The Phoenix of Ages is charging what appears to be a massively powerful energy weapon!" He paused, "They demand that they be allowed to dock so they can help with some sort of beam project!"

Armishaw shuddered, they want to help with the Heterodyne project. Like I buy that, they sent armed marines to do the talking for them then attacked a colony of 5 million civillians he thought, They're being real helpfull indeed.

"Send word to Xess, we need them to extend the planetary shield around the station. That'll hold off any attack that ship can deliver." The ops officer nodded and sent the order, it would put a lot of strain on the planetary shield, but it didn't have to last for long. Armishaw checked the station's armory, 100 Class D Ragnorok missiles, 400 Type V Mk.2 Preservers and an egual number of Type V Nemesis torpedoes. It would do, he thought.

"Have all ships fire their complete ordanace on POA on my mark, it's time to show ECF what we mean by overwhelimg firepower." When the timer reached two minutes to impact, the planetary shield had been modified and the largest fusilade, a combined yield of over 14,600 gigatons, in Xessmethian history was ready to go. Armishaw smiled again, "Mark."

The missiles flew forth in a salvo over almost a thousand missiles strong, more than enough to overcome any point defence. At the same moment, the planetary shield released a large amount of gas into itself, making it complete opaque to shield agaist the fireball which would spring forth and would be more intense than a thousand suns.

well your station cut off the connection, and the marines were protecting the guy in the buisness suit.

When the Tekania fleet entered reach of the "Redrum Def range the satalites began firing on the ship. Over the radion came the leader of AeroSpaceCity,

Our intentions?... Well we were gonna help but then they separated the connection. We needed to get to that lab! the tech is highly dangerous and the men weren't wearing the right suits. Also if you are wondering how we new the type of suits they were using, we had a "Spy Bug" anter the station.

After the transmission the fleet blocks radars,transmissions and all else.

[1 min. till impact]
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[Prepare for laser impact]

Soon after the laser gets close to the station the pheonix begins a straight coures for Xessmithia, along with the rest of the fleet. "Redrum" stayed behind to keep fleets from entering range and the Gravity weapon satalites begin open fire on the station(if it survives the first shot[also the Gravity weapon satalites are 4 lightyears away, they got a lot of power.])

OOC: ST tech shields are a layer of gravitons encased between two subspace barriers... same as their "forcefield" technology. Energy impacting against the shield (Deflector shields) channel around the shield and dissipate into space.... aka gravimetric. It acts like a "shell" rather than a well.

OOC: Hmmm... that is what the anaconda shield is... well not exactly... the anaconda shield acctually eats the power.

--- Onboard the Pegasus

"Forward shields at 95% Commodore...." says LTJG Meyers.

"Message from the Aerospace fleet..... They say they are trying to help?" says LT Scott.

"Help?" says Commodore Fletcher... "Do these guys honestly think we're daft, you don't 'help' by attacking and invading...."

"K-tube activity at 179 mark 6..... reading multiple K-tube formations....." says LTJG Meyers.

"About time..." Com. Fletcher remarks....

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100,000 km behind the Pegasus three massive rifts open in space....

From the first emerges a vessel almost identical to the Pegasus, bearing the markings TRSS Chronos, BSG-3.... flanking her 13.8 million MT bulk are 4 smaller 1.9 million MT battlecruisers... the TRSS Taurus, TRSS Leo, TRSS Aries and TRSS Cancer, and and 6 small 120,000 MT frigates, the TRSS Nero, TRSS Pontius, TRSS Vico, TRSS Lucifer, TRSS Tiamat, and TRSS Apollo....

--- Onboard the Chronos

"Transit complete, Commodore.... reading the Pegasus 100,000km afront. Bringing Kraskinov down.....Readings indicate energy signatured from weapons fire, Pegasus has her shields raised and her weapons are hot/" says LTCDR Haro

"Thank you ops.... put the fleet on picket, bring us port side of the Pegasus...." commands Commodore Bradley, "Alert Battlestations.... charge weapons batteries...."

The Chronos slips next to the Pegasus, holding defensive stance.......

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From the second rift, the another Pegasus like vessel emerges, bearing the markings, TRSS Zeus, BSG-4... also flanked by her own fleet of 4 battlecruisers, and 6 frigates, the TRSS Capricorn TRSS Saggitarius, TRSS Scorpio, TRSS Libra for the battlecruisers, and TRSS Hades, TRSS Charon, TRSS Thor, TRSS Phobos, TRSS Deimos, and TRSS Mercury.

From the third rift a single Pegasus like craft emerges, bearing the markings TRSS Orion, BSG-1.... The rifts behind the craft slam shut...

Onboard the Orion....

"Have the fleet raise all shields, open up a channel to the fleet..." Commands Fleet Admiral Warner.

"Aye sir, " says the communications officer, Lt. Barclay. "Sir, we are receiving subspace and hyperspace jamming on normal channels.... KTLOS available...."

"Activate a gate to the Pegasus...." commands FADM Warner.

Pegasus, KTLOS from Orion, FADM Warner commanding, FADM assumes command of the fleet, request sitrep.

Orion, COM Fletcher, roger command, SITREP. Hostile fleet has assaulted the station, fired on the PEgasus and began jamming subspace channels.... Repeat, fleet is hostile and aggressive.

"Communications, keep KTLOS open to Pegasus, Zeus and Chronos, relay to them to use KTLOS for fleet communications.... Bring us to battle positions... all ships charge weapons and prepare to fire....."

The 4 massive Orion class SCV's begin to line up and present themselves broadside, the battle cruisers and frigates flanking them as each of the the ships 20 side mount 170TW Phased particle cannons track onto the Redrum def sats.......

OOC: Hmmm... that is what the anaconda shield is... well not exactly... the anaconda shield acctually eats the power.

OOC: Abosorbtion shielding as opposed to Deflector shielding....

OOC: Abosorbtion shielding as opposed to Deflector shielding....

OOC:ST shields aren't deflector shields, they're abosrption and re-radiation shields. They take the energy then spread it around the shield then radiate it out. The whole blue sparkly glow thing.

OOC2:
well your station cut off the connection, and the marines were protecting the guy in the buisness suit.

ASC my marines asked your party to go peacefully to the administrator, once there you could have explained anything you wanted and peacefully obtained your supposed helpful objective. Instead, your marines drew weapons and tried to force their way in. Your ships then attacked. I acted in defence.

And please respond to the 900 missiles with a total yield of 14,600 gigatons I sent at the Phoenix. And at the 2 missiles I sent at those weapon sattelites.

IC: Admiral Armishaw watched with held breath as he watched the missile salvo streak in. It would be arriving at it's target any second now.

OOC:ST shields aren't deflector shields, they're abosrption and re-radiation shields. They take the energy then spread it around the shield then radiate it out. The whole blue sparkly glow thing.

OOC: Yes, re-radiation of energy, aka deflection of energy away... deflector shields... There are general two types of "gravometric" shield designes, Deflectors, which radiate energy away from the vessel from weapons impacts whether EM or particulate, and absorption shielding which channels the power back into the emiter arrays.... the two technologies differ into WHERE the excess energy goes, deflectors send it back into space, absorpers channel it back into the ships power grid.... of course, you can see why deflectors have advantages over absorpers.... namely you need to do something with that energy, and send it somewhere... otherwise an overload of the shields absorbtion capability lead to the entire blast being channeled into the ships power grid.... of course, this would also mean you would basically blow out the vessels systems, and be dead in the water... 'deflectors' generally can take more of a beating than absorpers for this reason.

OOC: Yes, re-radiation of energy, aka deflection of energy away... deflector shields... There are general two types of "gravometric" shield designes, Deflectors, which radiate energy away from the vessel from weapons impacts whether EM or particulate, and absorption shielding which channels the power back into the emiter arrays.... the two technologies differ into WHERE the excess energy goes, deflectors send it back into space, absorpers channel it back into the ships power grid.... of course, you can see why deflectors have advantages over absorpers.... namely you need to do something with that energy, and send it somewhere... otherwise an overload of the shields absorbtion capability lead to the entire blast being channeled into the ships power grid.... of course, this would also mean you would basically blow out the vessels systems, and be dead in the water... 'deflectors' generally can take more of a beating than absorpers for this reason.

OOC: I see where you're coming from now. You equate deflecting with re-radiation, I don't know why you do the terms deal with different things, but I understand. My shields are absorber/deflector hybrid using youe terminology. A shields impact will put strain on the generators, but any excess energy is dissipated by the ships active radiation system. Which is why my shields have wattage ratings, you take them down when you batter them forever, as the active radiation system keeps them going, or if you overload them with a huge fast burst of energy so the AR system can't deal with it.

OOC: I see where you're coming from now. You equate deflecting with re-radiation, I don't know why you do the terms deal with different things, but I understand. My shields are absorber/deflector hybrid using youe terminology. A shields impact will put strain on the generators, but any excess energy is dissipated by the ships active radiation system. Which is why my shields have wattage ratings, you take them down when you batter them forever, as the active radiation system keeps them going, or if you overload them with a huge fast burst of energy so the AR system can't deal with it.

OOC: Well any shield, especially gravometric, and both particulate and EM in deflection/absorption ability, will possess both an wattage and joule rating... both are closely related...... A joule equates to watts per second.... 1 J = 1 (kg*m^2)/(s^3), 1 W = 1 (kg*m^2)/(s^2)... which is also comparable to metric force (Newton), 1 N = 1 (kg*m)/(s^2).... so an object mass of x kg, impacting against a shield at x m/s over x s, will impact with x N of force, creating x W of power, needing to displace about x J of energy over x time. If your shield output is 1 W with a 1s recharge time, it can withstand 1 J of energy, or a 1 N force traveling at 1 m/s [why in the hell can't the us shift to metric systems, it makes so much more sense.]

OOC: Well any shield, especially gravometric, and both particulate and EM in deflection/absorption ability, will possess both an wattage and joule rating... both are closely related...... A joule equates to watts per second.... 1 J = 1 (kg*m^2)/(s^3), 1 W = 1 (kg*m^2)/(s^2)... which is also comparable to metric force (Newton), 1 N = 1 (kg*m)/(s^2).... so an object mass of x kg, impacting against a shield at x m/s over x s, will impact with x N of force, creating x W of power, needing to displace about x J of energy over x time. If your shield output is 1 W with a 1s recharge time, it can withstand 1 J of energy, or a 1 N force traveling at 1 m/s [why in the hell can't the us shift to metric systems, it makes so much more sense.]

OOC: I knew all that, I'm a physics major, I'd be boned if I didn't :D . And indeed the Metric system kicks ass.

Klaxons screamed aboard the Defense Weapon Forts and the warships of Second Fleet. Shields rose up slowly at first and then blossomed quicker as the warning spread throughout the ships. The Zephrain was simply bringing them up to full power as doctrine stated an installalation of it's size should always have shields up at at least 25% power.

"What in the world is happening?"

Fleet Admiral Franos had appeared clean-shaven and clothes in perfect order despite being dreaming only five minutes ago. Most of the bridge crew was incapable of finding the time to pull up their pant's zipper. If Franos hadn't been so worried about the battle he probably would have wondered if the rest of the crew even had pants on.

"Sir, apparently AeroSpaceCity wanted to help on a project. Xessmithia refused so ASC attacked." The officer was rather baffled by his own statement but it was true.

"So the gods put another space-faring weapon-bearing civilization of idiots who are way too trigger happy in this small universe. What are the current ship deployments?" Give a man a big gun and he will find any reason to use it thought Franos after he had spoken.

"Currently New Dawn Station is being protected by a planetary shield but we are not sure how many hits it can take. ASC is currently on an approach vector. The big one in the middle of all the little ships is the one to worry about. Tekania is preparing to launch a flanking manuever on ASC but so far all estimates for the outcome are still calculating. So far it seems Zephrain has not detected any target locks on itself but it seems likely they may attack it too. Whoa major energy burst! ASC is apparently using long range sniping satelites to bombard the shield from afar. We need an update on whatever is happening from Xessmithia and his deployments and the known statistics of the enemy to effectively coordinate a counterattack on the enemy."

"I want Second Fleet to prepare for an all out assault against the enemy. Have all ships target their first missle salvo to fire against the big one. If I am correct Task Force 21 under Vice Admiral Telik is doing exercises in a position that would allow them to attack at the enemy's rear. Tell the Zephrain to prepare for a full scale gunboat launch. I plan on swarming them after the first salvo. Also get whatever info we need from Xessmithia."

Franos would have been happy if that unfinished close combat supermonitor was still around but it had just left Zephrain construction shipyard only several days ago and was headed towards Valkha III for the finishing touches. However it wouldn't have been much use with gaping holes where weapons were supposed to be but thats why it was headed to Valkha III.

Klaxons screamed aboard the Defense Weapon Forts and the warships of Second Fleet. Shields rose up slowly at first and then blossomed quicker as the warning spread throughout the ships. The Zephrain was simply bringing them up to full power as doctrine stated an installalation of it's size should always have shields up at at least 25% power.

"What in the world is happening?"

Fleet Admiral Franos had appeared clean-shaven and clothes in perfect order despite being dreaming only five minutes ago. Most of the bridge crew was incapable of finding the time to pull up their pant's zipper. If Franos hadn't been so worried about the battle he probably would have wondered if the rest of the crew even had pants on.

"Sir, apparently AeroSpaceCity wanted to help on a project. Xessmithia refused so ASC attacked." The officer was rather baffled by his own statement but it was true.

"So the gods put another space-faring weapon-bearing civilization of idiots who are way too trigger happy in this small universe. What are the current ship deployments?" Give a man a big gun and he will find any reason to use it thought Franos after he had spoken.

"Currently New Dawn Station is being protected by a planetary shield but we are not sure how many hits it can take. ASC is currently on an approach vector. The big one in the middle of all the little ships is the one to worry about. Tekania is preparing to launch a flanking manuever on ASC but so far all estimates for the outcome are still calculating. So far it seems Zephrain has not detected any target locks on itself but it seems likely they may attack it too. Whoa major energy burst! ASC is apparently using long range sniping satelites to bombard the shield from afar. We need an update on whatever is happening from Xessmithia and his deployments and the known statistics of the enemy to effectively coordinate a counterattack on the enemy."

"I want Second Fleet to prepare for an all out assault against the enemy. Have all ships target their first missle salvo to fire against the big one. If I am correct Task Force 21 under Vice Admiral Telik is doing exercises in a position that would allow them to attack at the enemy's rear. Tell the Zephrain to prepare for a full scale gunboat launch. I plan on swarming them after the first salvo. Also get whatever info we need from Xessmithia."

Franos would have been happy if that unfinished close combat supermonitor was still around but it had just left Zephrain construction shipyard only several days ago and was headed towards Valkha III for the finishing touches. However it wouldn't have been much use with gaping holes where weapons were supposed to be but thats why it was headed to Valkha III.


The querry popped up on the holo-tank, it was from the Aracnids, and Admiral Armishaw had no reason not to answer it.

"Admiral Franos, your help came at an awkward time, we just launched New Dawn's entire missile magazine at the POA, that big ship you were talking about. They should be impacting any second now, and it's going to be a doozy of a blast. Think a small star appearing on their hull big. And our planetary shield is holding against those long range gravity cannons, but they pack one hell of a punch. We need to get them destroyed or disabled as soon as possible."

Armishaw paused as he checked the holo-tank quickly. "Most of our ships in the near vicinity have their magazines near-full. If we can coordinate our next salvo we'll be sure to overwhelm their point-defence." He stabbed a button on the console, "I just sent you our assets able to fight. Good hunting."

OOC:
XN forces

5 Cyclone-class Destroyers [Cyclone, Hurricane, Thunderhead, Lightning Storm, Blizzard]
7 Hera-class Frigates [Odin, Loki, Horus, Gilgamesh, Apollo, Artemis, Vishnu]
1 Endeavour-class cruiser [Endeavour]
New Dawn Orbital

100 XASF-18 heavy assault fighters
100 XASF-20 Heavy bombers

OOC: And a massive temporal votex hits this region of space, causing time to stop... j/k..... Wow, these missile and ships are moving slow..... they've been transversing this meger region for a few days.....

OOC: And a massive temporal votex hits this region of space, causing time to stop... j/k..... Wow, these missile and ships are moving slow..... they've been transversing this meger region for a few days.....

OOC: I know, I'm just waiting for ASC to respond. He's probably busy and I'm not in a hurry.

Xessmithia's two missles hit two satalites witch were soon replaced by back-up units. The barage of attacks on the pheonix resulted in a world wide attack, now the pheonix and all other weapons have begun attack on Xessmithia's surface... ... After sending large barages of blasts, missles,etc. the fleets left the area and decided they are going to only hold long range comms.

[OOC: also most of your ships were downed by yiff cannons and waves, basically EMPs only it shuts of all of the systems on a ship.]

Over the comms on the new dawn the tekania and aracnid fleets came a voice that said "Just so you know, we dont kill we leave very big scratches. We will meet again maybe soon, mabe later."

Most of the missles attacking the POA were deactivated and destroyed 20 made it to the ship and was close to the weak point but lowered shield levels the to 10%.We only designed the shield to eat energy blasts(most of our enemys use those).

Over comms the voice said "We will be ready if you attack, and if you do... well its your funeral."

One of the marines in the station placed 10 C4 packs on the station(still not enough to destroy it), wile the man in the suit and the rest hijaked a armed ship in the docking bay... ... After the C4 was placed the last marine boarded and they broke out and headed to ASC's NewWorld Station...

... The button was pressed and the C4 went off damaging the inside enough to keep Xessmithia occupied.

Within moments of the Aerospace departure a dark, evil looking vessel decloaks next to the Orion. Light almost falling into its surface.


From Heurter, Phillip J. Colonel, TRSMC, CO TRSS Spectre, IGVX-1
To Warner, Lawrence M. Fleet Admiral, TRSN, CSO Tekanian Stellar Forces
c/o TRSS Orion, BSG-1

Close range passive scans made of ships of ALPHA SIGMA CHARLIE fleet. Transmission of scans to BETA SIGMA GAMMA ONE on coded KTLOS channel. Operation ALPHA ONE complete. Request further instructions.


Within moments another transmission insues.


From Warner, Lawrence M. Fleet Admiral, TRSN, CSA Tekanian Stellar Forces
To Heurter, Phillip J., Colonel, TRSMC, CO TRSS Spectre, IGVX-1

Acknowledge recipt of message. Roger on ALPHA ONE. Initiate scenario GAMMA TWO CHARLIE. Plan SIX TWO FIVE BETA. Further coms, encode EPSILON TWO FIVE BETA by KTLR.


The dark vessel moves off and vanishes as its cloak re-engages.

--- onboard the Orion.

"Disengage the KTLOS. Have the Chronos return to Eagle One with second and third fleets. Orion, Pegasus and Zeus, take up picket around New Dawn." orders Fleet Admiral warner.

---

The three massive vessels, Pegasus, Zeus and Orion, take up station near New Dawn, holding broadside to space. Their weapons remain charged. But their shields drop. And they re-extend their landing bay "pods".

The TRSS Chronos, with all the other smaller vessels pulls off from the station. Within moments its Kraskinov kicks up, and the Chronos and all the small ships enter the event horizon and vanish from this region of space. The Kraskinov Tube slamming shut about 15 seconds after the last ship departs.

---

A transmission ensues from the the TRSS Orion.


This is Fleet Admiral Warner. I am chief of stellar operations for the Tekanian Republic stellar forces. We have taken up defensive positions around your station. Do you need any further assistance? If so, the Zeus' third marine corps of engineers can be dispatched to your station.

Xessmithia's two missles hit two satalites witch were soon replaced by back-up units. The barage of attacks on the pheonix resulted in a world wide attack, now the pheonix and all other weapons have begun attack on Xessmithia's surface... ... After sending large barages of blasts, missles,etc. the fleets left the area and decided they are going to only hold long range comms.

[OOC: also most of your ships were downed by yiff cannons and waves, basically EMPs only it shuts of all of the systems on a ship.]

Over the comms on the new dawn the tekania and aracnid fleets came a voice that said "Just so you know, we dont kill we leave very big scratches. We will meet again maybe soon, mabe later."

Most of the missles attacking the POA were deactivated and destroyed 20 made it to the ship and was close to the weak point but lowered shield levels the to 10%.We only designed the shield to eat energy blasts(most of our enemys use those).

Over comms the voice said "We will be ready if you attack, and if you do... well its your funeral."

One of the marines in the station placed 10 C4 packs on the station(still not enough to destroy it), wile the man in the suit and the rest hijaked a armed ship in the docking bay... ... After the C4 was placed the last marine boarded and they broke out and headed to ASC's NewWorld Station...

... The button was pressed and the C4 went off damaging the inside enough to keep Xessmithia occupied.



The attempted planetary bombardment was doomed to fail from the start. Xess's planetary shield could withstand a Coreworldian BDZ with ease, the meager attack from the ASC fleet was stopped dead in its tracks.

Admiral Armishaw stared in amazement as the POA's point defence shot down 97% of the missiles, but 20 made it through and the eye-watering blast of anti-matter warheads took their shields down by 90%.

There was a dull thud, "Report." Armishaw ordered.

"There was a chemical explosion in docking bay 45, the hostiles have high-jacked an assault shuttle. I'm activating the kill signal now." The ops officer reported. Armishaw nodded in approval as the direct laser transmission sent to the shuttle shut down it's engines and reactor leaving it dead in space.

He looked at the plot, the ASC fleet was withdrawing, "Fire a few low power shots at them, make them graze the ships. We don't want them back anytime soon. And get the Endeavour to pick up that shuttle. I have an interogation to conduct."

Armishaw turned to leave the CIC, but a light attracted his attentian, it was an offer of help from Tekania. "No thank you Orion, our damage control teams are on it. We didn't suffer any major damage." With that he turned at went to a briefing room, he has to prepare for the visitors.

After the shuttle was in the bay it self-destructed showing that noone was aboard. Over comms came the voice again "Ha! You think we are that stupid? After they broke out we sent a small back-up ship that your sensors cant pick up. Now you have a little more repairs to do, Oh and also your low-powered shots missed, were too fast." After that 5 Barrels of plasma self destructed in the cargo bay.(Most likely pausing the space project.)

Within moments of the Aerospace departure a dark, evil looking vessel decloaks next to the Orion. Light almost falling into its surface.



Within moments another transmission insues.



The dark vessel moves off and vanishes as its cloak re-engages.

--- onboard the Orion.

"Disengage the KTLOS. Have the Chronos return to Eagle One with second and third fleets. Orion, Pegasus and Zeus, take up picket around New Dawn." orders Fleet Admiral warner.

---

The three massive vessels, Pegasus, Zeus and Orion, take up station near New Dawn, holding broadside to space. Their weapons remain charged. But their shields drop. And they re-extend their landing bay "pods".

The TRSS Chronos, with all the other smaller vessels pulls off from the station. Within moments its Kraskinov kicks up, and the Chronos and all the small ships enter the event horizon and vanish from this region of space. The Kraskinov Tube slamming shut about 15 seconds after the last ship departs.

---

A transmission ensues from the the TRSS Orion.


OOC: Dude Event Horizen is the warship design our people have as long range gravity beams. You trying to steal my designs.

After the shuttle was in the bay it self-destructed showing that noone was aboard. Over comms came the voice again "Ha! You think we are that stupid? After they broke out we sent a small back-up ship that your sensors cant pick up. Now you have a little more repairs to do, Oh and also your low-powered shots missed, were too fast." After that 5 Barrels of plasma self destructed in the cargo bay.(Most likely pausing the space project.)

The decoy shuttle detonated in the XNV Endeavour's small ship bay, killing 3 unfortunate crewers and 5 marines. The area was immediately sealed and damage control went to work.

On board New Dawn, 5 barrels of fusion plasma detonated, the rarefied ionized gas exploded outwards at high speeds, melting the deck plating in close proximity and giving the personel in the area second degree burns.

Armishaw shook his head, these people are crazy, at least they're gone.
He thought. He went back to the CIC not needing to wait for the interogation anymore. He would supervise the repair efforts.

OOC: The shots were supposed to miss, they were warning shots. And the Heterodyne laser project is now complete.

Again over comms comes a different voice that says "This is leader Haxx of AeroSpaceCity. We heard you decided to reject our help. Our men threatened the marines because they thought the marines didn't know about the project. We are sorry for being threatening. If you need repairs our repair frigates can help. Once again sorry for the damages. Haxx out."

[OOC: That is the truth behind the beggining of the fight.]

Again over comms comes a different voice that says "This is leader Haxx of AeroSpaceCity. We heard you decided to reject our help. Our men threatened the marines because they thought the marines didn't know about the project. We are sorry for being threatening. If you need repairs our repair frigates can help. Once again sorry for the damages. Haxx out."

[OOC: That is the truth behind the beggining of the fight.]

Admiral Armishaw shook his head. People died over a misunderstanding, what kind of galaxy do we live in, he thought to himself. "Apology accepted Haxx. We're alright for repairs and thank you for your offer. I offer my condolences to the families of those AeroSpaceCity citizens killed in this skirmish. I also offer 10,000 USD to each family as a means of meager conmpensation for their loss. We regret the loss of life on both sides. Armishaw out."

"This is Harry Redhare of Tachyon News Service reporting from New Dawn press center. In what has been an expected move by the Confederate parliment, the Confederate Shipyards has been contracted to begin an eight year ship building plan. This expenditure was pushed through parliment after the surprise skirmish with AeroSpaceCity. To see what the reaction of this move was we turned to Xessmithia's voting public."

The scene cuts to a middle-aged woman in a business suit, "I fully agree with this descission. We've been attacked twice since we started building New Dawn, and this last time there was an attempted planetary bombardment. We need these ships to ensure our safety."

The scene resolves on Harry again, "Not everyone was so enthusiastic about this decission though."

Next shown was a yound man, "We don't need more ships. What we need is better diplomatic relations. This whole mess wouldn't have started if the goverment just opened itself up to other countries. We don't need things that are classified, an open goverment would mean no one would want to attack us anyway."

"As you can see there are many views on this last decission, only time will tell which will be correct. For Tachyon News Service, I'm Harry Redhare."

OOC: 1/8 complete. Ship listings will come later.

OOC: 2/8 and I'm still getting around to making that ship listing.

The people demanded blood. Julius Weber sat alone in solitude in his office for the first time in a long while. The lights were dimmed to help relieve stress. Being Grand Premier of the Aracnids was a rather hard job lately. The attack on New Dawn-Zephrain Station was completely unwarranted but declaring war was a massive decision. Before the War of Survival the average citzen would have heard from some liberal in the media how it was the government's fault for the attack especially with several rebellions going on in different sectors of The Aracnids. Then the War for Survival came and it all changed. The discovery of the Bugs thirty-five years before was a turn for the worst. A survey fleet had discovered massive civilized worlds and ran as battleships chased the puny survey cruisers out of the system. They did not try to communicate. They just conquered system after system within the first few weeks of the war. Hundreds of Bug superdreadnoughts were blown to pieces and yet they still came. Eventually through several key victories The Aracnids gained the upper hand. Admirals only choice was to massacre the worlds of a species that would not surrender and one without any type of communication was not known. Now the people were a bloodthirsty people who sought revenge against anyone who threatened another member of The Aracnids. The War had strenghtened the bond of the people and their trust in the governement and army to save them. Also it brought around an always close to wartime standard with massive amounts of money being poured into new ships, retrofitting of old ones and new technolgies. The Premier knew it would not be a massive ordeal to mobilize the navy and army for it was already prepared to fight. The decision lay in his hands and those of the Unity.

The people demanded blood. Julius Weber sat alone in solitude in his office for the first time in a long while. The lights were dimmed to help relieve stress. Being Grand Premier of the Aracnids was a rather hard job lately. The attack on New Dawn-Zephrain Station was completely unwarranted but declaring war was a massive decision. Before the War of Survival the average citzen would have heard from some liberal in the media how it was the government's fault for the attack especially with several rebellions going on in different sectors of The Aracnids. Then the War for Survival came and it all changed. The discovery of the Bugs thirty-five years before was a turn for the worst. A survey fleet had discovered massive civilized worlds and ran as battleships chased the puny survey cruisers out of the system. They did not try to communicate. They just conquered system after system within the first few weeks of the war. Hundreds of Bug superdreadnoughts were blown to pieces and yet they still came. Eventually through several key victories The Aracnids gained the upper hand. Admirals only choice was to massacre the worlds of a species that would not surrender and one without any type of communication was not known. Now the people were a bloodthirsty people who sought revenge against anyone who threatened another member of The Aracnids. The War had strenghtened the bond of the people and their trust in the governement and army to save them. Also it brought around an always close to wartime standard with massive amounts of money being poured into new ships, retrofitting of old ones and new technolgies. The Premier knew it would not be a massive ordeal to mobilize the navy and army for it was already prepared to fight. The decision lay in his hands and those of the Unity.

Harold Juxton sighed, he didn't want war. But if The Aracnids went ahead, war would undoubtedly fall again in Xessmithian space. He shook his head, and started preparing for the worst.

OOC:

Ship List

4 Cygnus-class Dreadnaughts [Cygnus, Aquila, Grus, Corvus]

8 Bradbury-class Battleships [Bradbury, Asimov, Heinlein, Silverburg, Weber, Zahn, Bova, Anderson]

12 Fermi-class Battlecruisers [Fermi, Planck, Heisenberg, Hawking, Einstein, Maxwell, Newton, Galileo, Copernicus, Kepler, Oppenheimer, Hubble]

20 Endeavour-class Cruisers [Endeavour etc, can't think of any names]

20 Cyclone-B -- Destroyers

30 Hera-B -- Frigates

Also in response to the AeroSpaceCity battle the defenses of New Dawn Station are being upgraded.

They are as follows:
- 10 Class 10 LinAc cannons
-- 15 exajoules/ 60 exawatts

- 500 Class 8 LinAc Turrets
-- 50 petajoules/ 200 petawatts

- 650 Class 6 LinAc Turrets
-- 500 terajoules/ 2500 terawatts

- 1200 Class 5 LinAc PDF Turrets
-- 500 megajoules/ 4000 megawatts

- 500 Heterodyne Lasers
-- 10 petajoules/ 200 petawatts

- 20 torpedo/missile tubes
-- magazine of 800 Mk.2Type V Preserver Missiles
-- magazine of 800 Type V Nemesis Torpedoes
-- magazine of 475 Class D Ragnorok Missiles

- 4 Class 9 NPA shield generators
-- 5000 exajoules/ 20,000 exawatts overload rating per generator.

The shipyards were alive with activity, three massive 1.8 km long Dreadnaughts were in various stages of construction along with numerous Battleships, Battlecruisers, Cruisers, Destroyers and Frigates. The focus of the activity was on the majesty of the newly completed XNV Cygnus. The deadliest ship in the XN fleet and the new flagship. She was equipped with the newest developments in weaponry, carrying the new Mk.3 Preserver missiles, Heterodyne Lasers, Class 10 LinAc cannons and even has a supply of 10 Class E Ragnorok missiles. She was also 2.2 km long instead of the standard 1.8 of the other ships of her class. She also sported TCG drive, essentially the mecahnism of a tachyon gate put into the ship. She was the only ship massive enough to mount it and it gave the Cygnus a FTL speed of 10 ly/hour.

She was the pride of the navy. The newly promoted Fleet Admiral Armishaw stood on a platform facing his new flagship.

"Ladies and Gentlemen, it is my great honor to cristen this grand ship of the Confederacy." He held a remote high and pushed the singe button on it, outside a bottle of the most expensive champagne Xessmithia produces flew at the Cygnus and shattered when it struck it's armored hull. Glass and champagne glistening spectacularly in the light of the sun. "I know declare this vessel, the XNV Cygnus, ready for launch. Now if you'll please follow me I'll give you the invited guests a tour of the ship."

OOC: 3/8 complete

Valkha III Station 2

"As you are well a where of Rear Admiral MacGregor plasma based weapons have never been the choice weapon as an energy armanent when the objective is destruction. Well at least in space against enemy capital ships. They do performly exceptional when they are used to disable but it takes a large amount of plasma hits to take down an enemy capital ship. They also are very powerful atmospheric weapons but besides that they are useless unless they objective is to capture an enemy ship. What we have been working on here at the Valkha III research complexes has changed all that. To put it simplest we pack a massive amount of a newly discovered type of plasma into an electrical magnetic field or an electromag bottle which is a bit easier on the tongue. It fires like a normal plasma round which is charge up the weapon and fire. It is not some type of missle. It is a rechargeable weapon like any other type of laser. Plus while energy comsumption is not low to fire it is actually on the lesser side of the average for most lasers."

The head of research at all Valkha III complexes looked at the admiral and the officers and the other weapon techs waiting for a response. The admiral was the one who broke the silence.

"So enough of this talk, how powerful is this weapon exactly." MacGregor wanted to know if she was being told a revolution in The Aracnids energy armanents was here.

"If you direct your attention to the screen you will see your Close Combat supermonitor has had it's first weapon mounted. Of course you all know it is the new plasma model."

There was the supermonitor which still had not been given a class or name with it's single operational weapon and an decommissioned battleship hovering in front of Valkha III. The head of research hit a button on a tiny computer wrapped around her wrist which sent an order to the fire control officer aboard the supermonitor. The fire control officer relayed an order and the weapon charged and fired. The battleship was gone. Jaws could be heard smashing upon the floor. Some voice who still had doubts spoke up.

"Well that was without shields right?"

"Yes but we have hope the weapon will work just as effectively against shields. Currently several battleships that we have been given permission to destroy in the hope of a better weapon are currently being tugged to this location. They will all be equiped with the best shields The Aracnids has to offer. Testing will resume in four hours."

XNV Cygnus Stats

Dimensions:
Length - 2217 m
Beam - 401 m
Height - 386 m

Armaments:
- 2 Class 10 LinAc cannons
-- 10 exajoules/ 50 exawatts

- 100 Class 8 LinAc Turrets
-- 50 petajoules/ 200 petawatts

- 225 Class 6 LinAc Turrets
-- 500 terajoules/ 2500 terawatts

- 400 Class 5 LinAc PDF Turrets
-- 500 megajoules/ 4000 megawatts

- 150 Heterodyne Lasers
-- 5 terajoules/ 100 terawatts

- 20 torpedo/missile tubes
-- magazine of 300 Mk.2Type V Preserver Missiles
-- magazine of 300 Type V Nemesis Torpedoes
-- magazine of 125 Class D Ragnorok Missiles

Armor:
- 1000 mm WUC
-- 12,000 mm RHA equivalent

Energy Shields:
- 5 Class 8 NPA shield generators
-- 500 exajoule/ 4000 exawatts overload rating per generator

Powerplant:
- 2 heavy Icefire-reactors

Performance:
- standard accel, 375 gravities
- max for 30 seconds, 500 gravities
- rotation rate, 90 degrees/second
- endurance
-- 3 year non-combat operations w/o refueling
-- 128 hours combat operations w/o refueling
-- 10 year supply of life-support and rations w/o replenishment


Drives:
-Sublight
-- 15 Daybreak NPA thrusters
-- 75 Nightfall emergency fusion rockets

-FTL
-- Gen 1 TCG drive, 10 ly/hour

Sensors:
- full spectrum active/passive scanner
- tachyon active/passive early warning scanner
- tachyon mass detector, range 8.0 AU

Stealth:
- complete SFC
- Gen 3 ECM/ECCM

Crew:
- 2719
-- 400 officers, 2319 enlisted

- 8 marine platoons, 200 marines
-- 40 officers, 160 enlisted

OOC: Dude Event Horizen is the warship design our people have as long range gravity beams. You trying to steal my designs.

OOC: Dude, "event horizon" is a general physics term denoting a time-space barrier, like at the edge of a worm-hole, or the time-space barrier of a blackhole. The "Kraskinov Tube" has an event horizon delineating the place in space where "space" itself ends, and the "tube" begins. I'm not really concerned about any ships you've named "Event Horizon"...

OOC: Dude, "event horizon" is a general physics term denoting a time-space barrier, like at the edge of a worm-hole, or the time-space barrier of a blackhole. The "Kraskinov Tube" has an event horizon delineating the place in space where "space" itself ends, and the "tube" begins. I'm not really concerned about any ships you've named "Event Horizon"...

OOC:The event horizon isn't an actual barrier, it's an imaginary boundary used to mark off the point where the escape velocity is higher than that of light. But you probably already knew that.

And 4/8 complete.

OOC:The event horizon isn't an actual barrier, it's an imaginary boundary used to mark off the point where the escape velocity is higher than that of light. But you probably already knew that.

And 4/8 complete.

OOC: Yes... not an actual barrier... though the definition you supplied fits perfect with the 'event horizon' of a black hole (though in which case it is the point where escape velocity equals the velocity of light)... more generally it can be used where you have a 'place' per se, where space changes, or you enter a different realm (like the event horizon and apature of a worm-hole, or a barrier of null-space... in any case, it marks the literall barrier where it is no longer possible to observe the passage of time at (something outside the realm of normal space-time) like past the event horizon of a blackhole (where the normal laws of physics no longer apply, the entry into a wormhole or warp-gate, jump-gates, where you enter into a seperate region of space-time, etc.

OOC: Yes... not an actual barrier... though the definition you supplied fits perfect with the 'event horizon' of a black hole (though in which case it is the point where escape velocity equals the velocity of light)... more generally it can be used where you have a 'place' per se, where space changes, or you enter a different realm (like the event horizon and apature of a worm-hole, or a barrier of null-space... in any case, it marks the literall barrier where it is no longer possible to observe the passage of time at (something outside the realm of normal space-time) like past the event horizon of a blackhole (where the normal laws of physics no longer apply, the entry into a wormhole or warp-gate, jump-gates, where you enter into a seperate region of space-time, etc.

OOC; The definition I supplied is the only definition of "event horizon" as used in actual physics. The rest are sci-fi add ons to things it really doesn't apply to in real life.

Valkha III Station 2

The crowd from earlier gathered again to watch the next demostration. The head of research had several of her best behind her and and pretty much every station and ground complex on Valkha III watching the feed. The new plasma weapon which was was still called prototype PL8723 was having some last minute checks done. The generators and every wire, connector and switch upon the supermonitor that was involved in firing weapon was being supervised and measured to the umpth degree. The prototype had worked flawlessly against the unshielded hull of a battleship. Even though a battleship was not a powerful ship in a fleet with supermonitors it still was a large factor and especially in other empires where battleships were the flagships of the navy. Now to see how well the weapon worked against shields.

"As you can all see the that we have hauled in a new battleship that is state of the art and has the best shields available. Intiating test in five four three two one."

Several gaping holes appeared in the battleship and everybody began to wander what the hell just happened.

"Are you sure those shields were up before the test?"

"Absolutey, readings confirm that but now there are no shields after the test. Someone get me readings on the generators. This is strange we only fired one shot but the shield is gone and there is catastrophric damage to the ship. That isnt right, you cant destroy the shield and hit a ship with the same shot.However it is not all at one point but in several completely different areas of the ship. "

Everyone processed each word the head of research had just said to try and figure out the solution to this puzzle. A tech ran up to the head of research and said:

"Maam readings say the generators are gone plus that the areas with all the damage is right where they were located. It is like they imploded or something."

The head of research thought for a second and it came to her.

"MacGregor and everyone else present. I have come to a conclusion. The PL8723 has worked exceptionally well. It overloaded the shields so fast in one shot it caused the generators to overload immediatly and implode so violently it severly damaged the ship. I think all these years of work just paid off. Alrite lets get this confirmed I want all recordings and evidence looked at and several more tests carried out. Ladies and Gentlemen we just hit gold."

OOC: 5/8 complete

The three massive Orion class vessels, Pegasus, Orion and Zeus pull into a more peaceful orbit near the station.

ooc: Xessmithia, if the UFGZ wasn't on the brink of depression, I'd gladly help you... however, feel free to offer contracts to Federal Companies...

ooc: Xessmithia, if the UFGZ wasn't on the brink of depression, I'd gladly help you... however, feel free to offer contracts to Federal Companies...

OOC: Thanks GZ, I'll be sure to keep that in mind.

More and more ships drew to completion at the Confederate Shipyards. The project was right on schedule and initial test flights have shown the new classes to work wonderfully.

OOC: 6/8 complete

Hey, Xessmithia, can you TG me your AIM address? Need to talk with you about something...

Out of hyperspace a fleet of repair ships and many other ships appears, this time it looks like it has 5 flagships in the center. Over comms comes a voice "We will help with repairs. The money is of no need for the familys, we moved them to new homes and put those injured in the hospital. With our ships the repairs will be finished in 1 NS year and you cant stop us from helping. That is what we do if we attack someone who is acctually more friendly than the actions they make." Soon the repair ships begin repairs on the New Dawn station, first they will repair docking ports then they will repair any inside areas damaged.

OOC: The 5 flagships are Pheonix Of Ages, Midnight, Angel, and Event Horizen. They are all the same size(Way bigger than the New Dawn[The New Dawn is about 1/5 of ASC Domes 1,2,and 3{wich is 1/10 of the flagships}])Arent they frigin big? Like moons that move!

Out of hyperspace a fleet of repair ships and many other ships appears, this time it looks like it has 5 flagships in the center. Over comms comes a voice "We will help with repairs. The money is of no need for the familys, we moved them to new homes and put those injured in the hospital. With our ships the repairs will be finished in 1 NS year and you cant stop us from helping. That is what we do if we attack someone who is acctually more friendly than the actions they make." Soon the repair ships begin repairs on the New Dawn station, first they will repair docking ports then they will repair any inside areas damaged.

OOC: The 5 flagships are Pheonix Of Ages, Warrior, Angel, and Event Horizen. They are all the same size(Way bigger than the New Dawn[The New Dawn is about 1/5 of ASC Domes 1,2,and 3{wich is 1/10 of the flagships}])Arent they frigin big? Like moons that move!


OOC: Yep they are big, about half the size of Death Star II, yet a mere 350 gigatons in a critical spot will take down 90% of their shields :p. Good to know eh ;).

IC: We thank ASC for their offer to help with repairs. However those were completed years ago. What you are reffering to is the construction of new navy vessels. You may however assist in upgrading New Dawn's defenses.

OOC: 7/8 complete.

[OOC: I wouldn't worry about the shields any more we updated them to work on all levels of weapons future or modern]

We will help you with upgrading defense, just as long as you dont open fire on our ships if they appear k? If you agree we will bring in GCs and GCRs.

[OOC: I wouldn't worry about the shields any more we updated them to work on all levels of weapons future or modern]

We will help you with upgrading defense, just as long as you dont open fire on our ships if they appear k? If you agree we will bring in GCs and GCRs.

OOC: Good idea.

IC: We will of course not fire on your ships. If you check the transmitted specs you'll see the new defenses as planned for New Dawn. The work will begin as soon as you are ready. And perhaps you would care to take a tour of the XNV Cygnus, our new flagship?

OOC2: The new defenses were posted earlier in the thread.

The shipyards were finished, the new armada of ships was complete. It was a glorious sight to look upon the glittering hulls of 94 warships. In the center was the grand XNV Cygnus, flagship of the fleet.

It was the largest collection of tonnage ever assembled in Xessmithian history. Tours were being offered of the Cygnus for all those who want them and there was a large social gathering to celebrate the hard work of the shipyard workers. It was a fine day indeed.

The three newly christened supermonitors slowly passed the ASC fleet. The Aracnids still did not completely trust ASC's word but they had no intention of any extreme measures to ruin the delicate friendship. The new supermonitors were all part of the Iron Maiden Class. The Siva, Ramayana and Orlean were all part of the project started years ago to build a close combat supermonitor. They were all fully outfitted with full broadsides of the PL8723 weapons which had developed only two years ago. The Aracnids revenge fever was calming down finally but trust was not easily earned.

Very well then we will begin helping with upgrades.

If you want we can still share our shields or other systems with you just TG me.

New Dawn's upgrades were finally complete. Now the commander was confident he could ward off any attack. Although the risk still remained, he tried not to worry about it. Keeping it in the back of his mind.