Stellar Nations
28-01-2005, 02:21
OOC: Continuation of my fleet from the 'A Call for Help' thread, started by Elugoria IV
IC: The ISF fleet's men who had figured out a way to sleep were woken up by an alarm. Another alarm. One soldier took out a permanent marker and marked another beside his bunk. A total of 24 times now. Beside that was the number of jumps, which was 41 for the moment. "All hands, we are preparing to jump. Three, Two, One, Jumping now." 42. Nothing was felt by the passengers, but for the next 333 minutes they would be alone.
On the bridge of the Devastator, Andon watched each image flick off as they went into the drivetime. Then they al cut, and the massive ship was in drivetime. Only two remained, and those were the captains of the two destroyers that were being worked on. They were being joined, end to end, and the scientistss were doing something with it. A giant EMC, he thought it was. He sighed, and looked at the clock. 333 minutes to go...
Sheil looked at her screen. The design was complete, and it was going into production nicely. She had figured out that accelerating a materal designated IS-2194 through an EMC it could destroy a large moon, or do massive damage to a planet. But ir's special property was not lightness or anything of the sort, it was that as soon as it cleared the EM feild it spread out into a micro-thin circular spinning mass that caused massive kinetic damage on anythingin it's way. The problem was getting the IS-2194. There was none of it in any of the ship's stores, and the only known way of getting it was mining it from a star, or buying it. And seince minng stars was not profitable, very few people sold it.
Helis stalked the halways at random. In a 20 km long ship,there were a lot of them He wanted to do something to kill the damn fleet chasing them. He did not know their names or their race or their families, but he wanted them dead. His brother had been captain of the Defender and had done a great thing, and done damage, but had not defeated the flagship. Helis saw a recruitment board, and looked at it. On it was a recruitment thing for a possible suicide mission, against the flagship. He signed up without thinking.
After the drivetime was over, Andon waited. There was no sign of the SSkiss fleet this time. He sent out the pre-recorded message, on the massive communications setup at the nose of the ship.
"This is the ISF Fleet hailing anyone in the vincinity. We are being followed by a fleet of what apeas to be Sskiss to our database, and we are massivly outnumbered, by hundreds to one. We have damaged their flagship, but they just keep coming. We do knot know their forces, we have been too busy running. We need immedeate assistance at teh following co-ordinates. I repeat, we need assistance at the following coordiantes." he gave the co-ordinates "This message is repeating"
IC: The ISF fleet's men who had figured out a way to sleep were woken up by an alarm. Another alarm. One soldier took out a permanent marker and marked another beside his bunk. A total of 24 times now. Beside that was the number of jumps, which was 41 for the moment. "All hands, we are preparing to jump. Three, Two, One, Jumping now." 42. Nothing was felt by the passengers, but for the next 333 minutes they would be alone.
On the bridge of the Devastator, Andon watched each image flick off as they went into the drivetime. Then they al cut, and the massive ship was in drivetime. Only two remained, and those were the captains of the two destroyers that were being worked on. They were being joined, end to end, and the scientistss were doing something with it. A giant EMC, he thought it was. He sighed, and looked at the clock. 333 minutes to go...
Sheil looked at her screen. The design was complete, and it was going into production nicely. She had figured out that accelerating a materal designated IS-2194 through an EMC it could destroy a large moon, or do massive damage to a planet. But ir's special property was not lightness or anything of the sort, it was that as soon as it cleared the EM feild it spread out into a micro-thin circular spinning mass that caused massive kinetic damage on anythingin it's way. The problem was getting the IS-2194. There was none of it in any of the ship's stores, and the only known way of getting it was mining it from a star, or buying it. And seince minng stars was not profitable, very few people sold it.
Helis stalked the halways at random. In a 20 km long ship,there were a lot of them He wanted to do something to kill the damn fleet chasing them. He did not know their names or their race or their families, but he wanted them dead. His brother had been captain of the Defender and had done a great thing, and done damage, but had not defeated the flagship. Helis saw a recruitment board, and looked at it. On it was a recruitment thing for a possible suicide mission, against the flagship. He signed up without thinking.
After the drivetime was over, Andon waited. There was no sign of the SSkiss fleet this time. He sent out the pre-recorded message, on the massive communications setup at the nose of the ship.
"This is the ISF Fleet hailing anyone in the vincinity. We are being followed by a fleet of what apeas to be Sskiss to our database, and we are massivly outnumbered, by hundreds to one. We have damaged their flagship, but they just keep coming. We do knot know their forces, we have been too busy running. We need immedeate assistance at teh following co-ordinates. I repeat, we need assistance at the following coordiantes." he gave the co-ordinates "This message is repeating"