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Three Republic battle cruisers appeared in an uncharted location. The system appeared to be unpopulated, the perfect place. A message was sent out to all charted systems,

"To all and any who wish to test their fleets might against that of the Republic, come to these coordinates and take place in a skirmish battle."

(OOC: This is just a thread for some nice space battles, thought it would be fun.)

A single 250 meter long dreadnaught jumpedinto the system.

"This is the represenative from the ISF First Fleet. Are the skirmishes going to be with live weapons or with powered-down simulation weapons?"

A single 250 meter long dreadnaught jumpedinto the system.

"This is the represenative from the ISF First Fleet. Are the skirmishes going to be with live weapons or with powered-down simulation weapons?"

If you want to use live weapons go ahead.

The cruisers started moving towards the ship, readying their weapons.

Hydrogen-Land's trademark beacon is propelled into the open space, it's rememberable green flash dims to a black bulb, and then, Hydrogen-Land arrives. The fleet is easily seen floating up from the black depths, the fleet is comprised of one Hydrogen-Land capitol ship: The Juggernaut, and it seems relatively unprotected, until the hatch bays open. They flood out, two squads of 20 DRED (Drone Raid Explosive Device) race out, the kamikazies begin circling the Juggernaut, and are followed by a similar squad of Fighters and bombers, weapons ready, on the view screen of the Juggernaut a green field is seen, showing enemy fighters, but, what's this? It seems that a friendly Republic fleet is in sight, the bombers are recalled, but the fleet is still relatively un-marred.

"We are not the combat shipo. We will be using simulated weaponsry. If you use live weaponry, we will retaliate with such."

With that, the ship jumped out of the system. A few minutes later, a 20 km long ship jumped into the system. "We are the ISF First Fleet Flagship, the ISF Devastator. We are here for your skirmish."

THe Devastator activvated it's sheilds and fired a burst of simulated EMC rounds at each of the three ships.

The simulated blasts hit the shields of the cruisers, doing nothing. The turbo lasers were powered up and locked on to their target. Live fire would be used for this fight, as simulated ones would be to no effect against each ships shields. Tho one rule stood, when the ship is about to be desstroyed, stop attacking it.

The cruisers started to fire on the Devastator, bringing down it's shields at a fast speed.

The fleet commander chuckled dryly, "Simulated fire? I'm damn well gonna use live shots, I can't change the explosives in the DREDs, and I wont..." he pressed a series of buttons on the display and watched as a series of DREDs shot themselves towards the enemy flagship, he waited quietly for the ensuing carnage, "If the bombs in the DREDs don't damage the entire ship, the radiation will, this should be interesting..." He held his finger on the Fighter release button, but decided better of it, he would wait.

"Sir, live fire, live fire!"

"REmove the simulated EMCs. Bring sheilds to full. Launch thirty jump missiles, ten a each. And bring the Particle Cannon online"

OOC: JUump missiles use a form of extra-dimensional travel to jump out of the launchung tuybes and (hopefully) behind the enemy's sheilds. Wnen they emerge from the other dimension, they are traveling at .93 of the speed of light.

"Well, let us see wha-" he is cut off by a large explosion, "MISSILES! They breached the shields!" says a recovering crewmate, "Very well, we'll continue with operation SICKBOARD, they won't be able to recover from this, repair the damage, ready the crew." Operation SICKBOARD was initiated in lose-lose situations, because of Hydrogen-Land's advanced weapons research, they have isolated a bio-toxin capable of being contracted through the air, but, it must have a host. Five Hydrogen-Land men will be infected, and will be placed in a boarding craft (with shield jammers) and released in the enemy ship, when the men die, the toxin will be released into the air. The boarding craft is launching as we speak.

"Missiles! At 2 o'clock!"

The missiles slammed into the shields of the ships, unalbe to penetrate them.

"Sir, shields at 89%" reported a crewman.

"Fire torpedos!" yelled the Cpt. of the cruiser Defiance .

8 proton torpedoes were fired at the ship, smaking into it's shields. The other cruisers followed suit, firing torpedos and keeping constant turbo laser fire on the ship.

From the hangers of the cruisers, 5 squads of TF-20 fighters came out of each. Each squadron contains 35 fighters. The fighters started heading towards the ship.

I wadn't attacking you, i was attacking the other guy

A drone entered into the system, and transmitted a message to the Taledonia craft. "We would like to participate in this. We shall arrive and wait till the end of this match before we participate."
After about a 1/2 hour, 3 ships arrived, a Cappela class, and two Kinslayer class ships.

OOC: Hey, if you send missiles, expect that they will hit mutliple targets, thus the name, missiles. Now, even if they weren't targeted AT me, they were targeted at my ally, and I will NOT stand for it, kapish?

A drone entered into the system, and transmitted a message to the Taledonia craft. "We would like to participate in this. We shall arrive and wait till the end of this match before we participate."
After about a 1/2 hour, 3 ships arrived, a Cappela class, and two Kinslayer class ships.

Very well, when the battle is over, our ships in the system will return to ocks for repairs but more will arrive to skirmish with your fleet.

[QUOTE=Hydrogen-Land Operation SICKBOARD was initiated in lose-lose situations, because of Hydrogen-Land's advanced weapons research, they have isolated a bio-toxin capable of being contracted through the air, but, it must have a host. Five Hydrogen-Land men will be infected, and will be placed in a boarding craft (with shield jammers) and released in the enemy ship, when the men die, the toxin will be released into the air. The boarding craft is launching as we speak.[/QUOTE]

The TF-20 starfighters flew by the attacking ship heading towards the boarding craft. When they arrived at the craft, they continued to escort it towards it's target while firing missiles and raining laser fire on the Devastator.

"Sheilds holding, sir."

"Good. how's that particle cannon coming?"

"Fully charged in about 10 seconds, sir."

"When it's ready, fire on the center Republic ship."

"Yes, sir."

"Oh, and launch 30% of our figter compliment against those small craft"

"Aye, sir!"

900 fighters launched from the bays on the Devasator and headed for the boarding craft.

A second later, the particle cannon fired on the center Republic ship. THe beam lanced out at the speed of light, towards the craft.

(OOC: the particle cannon is immensly powerful, and can punch a hole through the Moon)

(OOC: Hey ISF , check your telegrams and reply to me with your answer.)

"Sheilds holding, sir."

"Good. how's that particle cannon coming?"

"Fully charged in about 10 seconds, sir."

"When it's ready, fire on the center Republic ship."

"Yes, sir."

"Oh, and launch 30% of our figter compliment against those small craft"

"Aye, sir!"

900 fighters launched from the bays on the Devasator and headed for the boarding craft.

A second later, the particle cannon fired on the center Republic ship. THe beam lanced out at the speed of light, towards the craft.

(OOC: the particle cannon is immensly powerful, and can punch a hole through the Moon)

The particle cannon slammed into the Defiance, causing critical damage.

"Report!" ordered the Cpt.

"Shields down to 17% Radar is out but will be repaired in 30 seconds."

"Make it faster!"

Meanwhile, the fighters flew into the swarm of enemy fighters. It was to be a large dog fight, exactly what TF-20 are good at. The fighters entered blasting their lasers at the enemy. 8 more squadrons of fighters left the cruisers and headed towards their comrades for reinforcements, while another 2 squadrons flew to continue escorting the transport.

As the Taledonian fighters were weeded out by suppressive fire, it was apparent that the Boarding craft might not make it, so, The DRED fighters rushed to escort the craft, it could not be lost...

"Sir, the ship targeted by the particle cannon has sustained majr damage. ANd the small craft are still coming."

"Launch all fighters, and a full spread of Jump missiles at the same ship"

"Aye, sir."

An aditional 2100 fighters launched form the Devastator's landing bays joining the other 900.

(A spread of missiles is about 15)

"DONT LET THE MISSILES LAUNCH!" Screamed the commander as he pounded in the Juggernaut's laser fire key, suddenly, ten small lasers were targeted at the missile launch bay, "FIRE!"

"Sir, the ship targeted by the particle cannon has sustained majr damage. ANd the small craft are still coming."

"Launch all fighters, and a full spread of Jump missiles at the same ship"

"Aye, sir."

An aditional 2100 fighters launched form the Devastator's landing bays joining the other 900.

(A spread of missiles is about 15)

The 10 of the 15 missiles hit the shields of the Defiance, while the other 5 were shot down while leaving the tubes.

"Shields at 2% sir"

"We need to take out their missile bays, concentrate all fire on missile bays."

28 proton torpedoes were fired at each of the missile bays. Also, seeing the rest of the enemy fighters leaving the ship, the cruisers emptied too. 16 000 TF-20 fighters left the cruisers and headed towards the dogfight.

OOC: Jump missiles don't use missile launch tubes. and they use extradimensional travel to get from point A to point B without entering real space. They are undetectable exept right before they hit. but, in the way of not godmodding, i'll allow their storage bays to be targeted)

IC: The sheilds held, but one hexagonal section failed, rihgt above one of the jump missile storage bays. Several shots hit that section, setting off about a dozen missiles. The missile's safetys engaged, flinging them into jump space, but the storage bay was still breached, and the rest of the mssiles were unusable.

"Sir, jump missile bay 2 is out of the link. bays 1, 3 and 4 are stiull fully functional, but we will still be unable to use those 50 missiles."

"Alright, we'll send out our heavy friggates, they can make up for our loss of fighters..." Suddenly, out from underneath the belly of the Juggernaut came the Friggate fleet, the large battle-cruisers began progressing towards the battle, there were 200 max, but the heavy weapons and armour could withstand any blow, the end was near...

OOC: Jump missiles don't use missile launch tubes. and they use extradimensional travel to get from point A to point B without entering real space. They are undetectable exept right before they hit. but, in the way of not godmodding, i'll allow their storage bays to be targeted)

(OOC: Ya, the storage bays are kinda what we meant, we didn't know were you kept your missiles so we just said launch tubes.

"Sir, we have 16000 fighters launching."

"Bring in the Hellbore and the carriers."

The ISF Hellbore, sister ship to the Devastator, but with larger fighter bays, and the half dozen superdradnaught carriers, along with two command carriers, arried and launched their fighters, bringing the total ISF fighter compliment up to 21,001.

The Hellbore had sacrificed it's missile launchers for more fighter space, but still had it's particle cannon, which fired on the ship previously targeted by the Devastator's Particle cannon.

The Defiance suffered a terrible blow from the second partical beam blast. The shields were out and the hull was at 58%. A transmission was sent to the other ship,

"No more particle beam blasts on the Defiance please, it will destroy the ship. Rules say don't destroy the ships."

"They have jumped in another cruiser sir."
"Abort, we need to leave, make sure that the boarding survives, and place the bomb...."
"Fine Sir, we'll send our beacon to a safe region..."

OOC: The bomb is a highly experimental Hydrogen-Bomb implosion device, it literally sucks things out of space, there is a short time fuse mechanism, but it is almost impossible to disarm. I will be watching as well as maybe sending some reinforcements.

i would like to join this little fight. 2 mordu class destroyers (REALLY BIG), 15 cruisers and 10 carriers are sent.

fleet commander: ready the SL cannons and launch the fighters! 2000 Dark Angel Fighters speed out of the carriers after the cruisers fire a volley of 500 proximity mines at theos fleet.

"Copy that. As long as the Defiance ceases any actions other than self-defense."

The fighters engaged the original small craft that were detected, firing on them to the exclusion of almost everything else.

The Devastator launched two spreads of missiles at one of the two remaining republic ships, and then fired it's entire complement of 575 EMCs at the other one

OOC: please wait untill we are done, otherwise you will have both of us (at least I think so) attacking you, as you are disrupting our wargames

i would like to join this little fight. 2 mordu class destroyers (REALLY BIG), 15 cruisers and 10 carriers are sent.

fleet commander: ready the SL cannons and launch the fighters! 2000 Dark Angel Fighters speed out of the carriers after the cruisers fire a volley of 500 proximity mines at the nearest enemy fleet.

My ships and those of ISF are already engaged, but if you want, your fleet and the fleet of Theao can begin skirmishing. And there's only one rule here, don't destroy the ships (except for fighters :p ).

edited last post.

"Copy that. As long as the Defiance ceases any actions other than self-defense."

The fighters engaged the original small craft that were detected, firing on them to the exclusion of almost everything else.

The Devastator launched two spreads of missiles at one of the two remaining republic ships, and then fired it's entire complement of 575 EMCs at the other one

OOC: please wait untill we are done, otherwise you will have both of us (at least I think so) attacking you, as you are disrupting our wargames

"You may fire your other armaments at the Defiance but just not the particul beam because it's too powerful and will destroy the craft. The Defiance will continue to fight however."

The dogfight was going good for the Republic, only 29 ships downed with many more casualties for the ISF fighters.

The cruisers began flanking the ISF ship, surrounding it and continually firing torpedoes. This would have a massive effect on the ship.

Current Damages to Cruisers:

Defiance (Capitol Ship): Shields=0%, Hull=58%
Deflector: Shields=68%, Hull=100%
Avatar: Shields=79%, Hull=100%

Please post your fighter losses and damages to your crafts.

The dogfight was going good for the Republic, only 29 ships downed with many more casualties for the ISF fighters.

Please don't do that. that's Godmodding.

IC: The Devastator quickly spun up it's jump drives for an emergency jump. It evicted the space it was in and apeared 5 seconds later at another point in space. The torpedoes fired at it, that hadn't impacted the sheilds, were still going onn a straight line, towards their own ships.

Devastatr's status: Sheilds (average): 82% Hull: Minor Damge Other: Minor damage to launch bays, Missile bay 2 out of link. Particle cannon unable to charge (this is normal, but should still be listed)

Hellbore's status: Sheilds (average): 100% Hull: 100% Other: Particle cannon unable to charge (this is normal, but should still be listed)

Carriers: 100%

fighters: 92%

The stray torpedoes were destroyed by their security measures. The cruisers were about to fire on their targets when suddenly a message appeared on their communications. It appears that the ships were needed elsewhere and had to leave immeadiatly. The skirmish was over, the result: Undecided.

(OOC: Anyone else who wants to skirmish amongst themselves can do so freely, you don't need to ask my permission.)

OOC: Heh, i just plain whooped the ass of that one ship. concentrate on one target as much as possible, get it destroyed, move on to the next one.

And now that i'm a member of the republic, do you need assistance in that elsewhere place where your whips are needed?

OOC: Heh, i just plain whooped the ass of that one ship. concentrate on one target as much as possible, get it destroyed, move on to the next one.

And now that i'm a member of the republic, do you need assistance in that elsewhere place where your whips are needed?

Not really, the planet we've invaded is mainly secured, we're just moving our fleet to protect it from nations who think it's a breach of civil rights to conquer the planet and bring it into the civilised Republic.