NationStates Jolt Archive

The ISF ESD jumped in-system. It registered three planets, and one anomaly.

"Take us to the anomaly. I want to see what it is."

"Aye, sir."

The ESD approached the anomaly, being able to pick it up on visuals.

It was a spacecraft. It was a semi-sphere, slightly lopsided. And it ahd strange projections around the edges of it, al the way around.

"Scan it"

The scanneer swept out, and the ship disapeared into a black oval. A pitiful laser beam swept out, hitting the ESD's armor but not doing much.

"SHEILDS UP! Fire EMCs at the thing, then turn us around and get us out of here!"

The sheilds sprang up, and the EMCs lashed out. THey were abosrbed by the black orb, and a few seconds later, a swarm of EMC shells erupted form it, impacting the rear sheilds of the now-fleeing ship. It brought them down dangerously low, and they finaly collapsed, and the ESD took major damage to it's engines before jumping.

After jumping the captian said "Take us to Base 3. Send a Jump message to Fleet HQ about this thing."

"Aye sir. Done"

This is the Explorer-class Superdreadnaught Burning Fury. We
have encountered an alien device that attacked us. We raised sheilds and
fired ECMs. Aproxamatly (backround talking) 5.2943 seconds later, it fired
swarms of ECMs of our exact sime kind at us, severly damaging us. We request assistance.

"What can the Kazecistany fleet do for you?"

OOC: sounds like some sort of add... heh.

IC: "It would be very apreciated if you kept an eye on that thing. Thouhg we sugest refreining from fireing on it."

Onboard the new Command BattleCarrier Karl Salim several Comm Officers began focusing on a com blip in the system. This carrier is the first of a new class of the infamous Sebecean Command Carrier, that was currently hiding in the shadow of the system's large ice giant awaiting testing. Now, with current events, the BattleCarrier can truly be tested.

ALL WAVEBAND HAIL FROM SEBECEAN IMPERIAL WARSHIP KARL SALIM
To all ships in star system 202-3M 'Pherion', if any assistance is required, the Sebecean Imperial Ship Karl Salim is read to aid. Please contact us on any waveband.

"Please, help us remove this thing from this system"

The Karl Salim received the message, and began moving out of the planetary shadow. It slowly accelerated out of orbit and set a heading towards the object.

As the object came into weapons range, the Carrier slowed down, and aimed its (2-4 Barrel Turrets)Chaotic Gravity cannons and (2-3 Barrel turrets)FRAG cannons on the anomaly. The Battlecarrier sat there for a while, idle, until the cannons erupted in fury. Missle turrets loaded crude thermonuclear bombs into the tubes, and hurled them to the object. As the Carrier began to come to a complete stop, the 32(4 barrel) particle cannons came into range and immeadiatly fired.

The newly built Panzerfaust II sent a beacon into the war-space, and the ship followed the beacon into the battle.* The Panzerfaust II was not the strongest ship in the H-L fleet but, it was the biggest ship bay. Speaking into the ship's extra-com system, the Fleet captain sent a message to friendly ships in the area, "This is Panzerfaust II, battle cruiser of Republic's Hydrogen-Land, how may we assist?"


*The beacon system is implemented instead of a traditional jump, our jumping system isn't strong enough to ship an entire ship, so we send a beacon instead, it lands, and the ship blind-jumps to it.
*The staple ship of the H-L fleet is the DRED, a small kamikaze fighter that latches onto a ship and explodes.

As the carrier continued to fire, a ship appeared behind it, and as it appeared it sent out a come to the carrier.

"This is Panzerfaust II, battle cruiser of Republic's Hydrogen-Land, how may we assist?"

As the carrier's com officers assembled a message in the senders language, a flight(8 fighter craft) of Banshees exited on of the carrier's landing bays, and headed toward the H-L ship.

.095 Waveband Com
This is the Sebecean Imperial Warship Karl Salim to the H-L Panzerfaust II. We are currently assaulting a unknown object as requested by ISF Devastator. We will send you sensor data from the object and we are currently sending a flight of escort fighters. Please respond with your intentions and/or ship's weapon capabilities.

As the Setian-Sebecean ship fired it's weapons on the thing, aproxamatly 5.2943 seconds after the first impact, the thing fired exact copies of everything back at the ship, in addition to what appeared to be copies of the ISF's EMCs and some pitiful lasers

Captain Terrel Owens sat in stunned silence after reading the incepted message about the anomoly from his communications officer, Downwell.

"Captain?"

"This...this is..."

"Sir, what is it?"

"Downwell, do we have any current information on it?"

"Well, yes sir, a Setian-Sebeceans cruiser has just fired a massive arsenal at it..."

"NO! Haven't they ever heard of that thing that the Enterprise stopped? They have to stop firing on it NOW!"

Downwell ran to the bridge to relay the message to the ships attacking the machine.

"There is no way to destroy this thing...but we have to find a way now, or it could take over that entire system."

OOC: it's nothing from Star Trek. If you've read the Bolo books, then you'll know what i'm talking about, and how to destroy it.

The Battlecarrier's sensors picked up the Chaotic gravition bolts heading back, it ceased fire. The bolts did not make a direct hit, but the gees that surrounded them ripped through the hull sending fragments and turrets off. On board, crew members' organ's we turned into goo from the closest bolt. Others were lifted and beaten around, most of the ships outer crew areas where lifeless. However, the ships many energy-sink manifolds (energy absorbers) were still active, and absorbed the energy of the charged particles. The ship stop firing, and sent out a com message.

ALL WAVEBAND HAIL
This is the Sebecean Imperial Warship Karl Salim, we have taken heavy fire and many deaths. We require immeadate assistance.

Also at the same time another com sent in Sebecean War Code was sent to a black object drifting in an planetary debris belt. As the message hit the object it powered up, coming alive. One of the Decimators haf been awoken.

OOC: The Sebecean Decimator is the largest ship in the Sebecean fleet, it is so large that only 4 could be built.

The Chaotic Gravity cannon creates a stable micro black hole (after some time-43.38 minutes-it is ripped apart by ambiant gravity) and slingshots it by means of chaotic gravity generators, the decimator has many of these cannons on it, along with many other powerful cannons. The gravity bolt has a unknown level of gees at the core, but has 100 at the threshold or the point at which sensors could not measure. It is a weapon that can devistate a target even without hitting it.

"ALL SHIPS! This is the ISF Sheridin. We have an urgent message! DO NOT FIRE on the unkown craft! It replicates anytthing thrown at it. Do not let any craft ram it, as we assume it will replicate them, also."

The ISF SD jumped in-system before the mesage, though it was only detected as the message came in. AS it sent the message, it moved forward at maximum engine thrust, disregarding the red line and overcharging the engines. No weapons systems were active, and only one lifesign was detectable on board. It was headed right towards the thing.

"We have figured out a way to destroy it. We must be protected, as we cannot divert any power to sheilds or weapons."

Kazecistany fighters moved in to intercept all incoming fire towards the SD, either shooting it down or Kamikazing. (they're drones)

OOC:
Bleh, sorry, just reminded of something...


IC:

The Laskonian warship warped in, coming to a stop several klicks away from the other ships, it slowly approached.

This is Captain Owens of the Orion's Arm, we're here to offer assitance before this situation gets out of hand.

The ship suddenly rocked.

"Fire interception missles at that debris its shooting at us, damnit!"

He looked back to the screen.

"Apologies...just tell us where to fire our guns and we'll do it."

OOC:
Laskonian Warship:
http://www.orionsarm.com/ships/warship.jpg

"Do not fire upon the enemy object! intercept as much fire coming towards us as you can"

After cutting the comm, the lone man spoke to the computer. "What's our ETA?"
"Ten minutes"
"Start self destruct countdown. Nine minutes fifty five seconds."
"Starting. Self destruct in T minus nine minutes fifty five seconds."

As the battlecarrier took more hits from the object, its energy-sinks overloaded and detacted. The ship had only weakened armor against the objects fire. As the outer parts of the carrier tooks hits and broke off more oxygen and personnel were being lost. Escape pods flew from the carrier. Then, suddenly the forward section of the ship was hit by three mimic FRAG cannon bolts tearing it up, and a few thousand more dead. The battlecarrier was breaking up, turrets, fighters, bodies, and debris floated around the ship.

EMERGENCY ALL WAVEBAND MESSAGE
MAYDAY!MAYDAY! THIS IS THE SEBECEAN WARSHIP KARL SALIM, WE HAVE SUSTAINED HEAVY DAMAGE AND CASUALTIES! WE REQUIRE ASSISTANCE...[crack...distant exposion] THIS SHIP IS GOING DOWN, I SAY AGAIN THIS SHIP IS GOING DOW...

After the message was sent several large expolosions hit the bridge, killing the captian and command crew.

Moments later Kazecistany rescue crews were on the scene.

((Understatement: Getting torn up?))

In the mist of the caos, the Taledonian Battle Cuiser Defiance, one of the finest in the Republics fleets, arrived at the scene. It started to move towards the other ships, particularly the one that had it's commanders killed a few seconds ago.

"Report!" ordered Admiral Akazy

"It's an alien device sir! Many other Republic vessels have arrived already, as well as a few others, one is in critical condition and is going down. Kazecistan sent medical aid." reported the science officer.

"Send out 2 squadrons* of TF-20s as well as 13 medical vessels to assist them. Shields up! Move towards the object, get us within range!" Akazy ordered.

"Yes, sir. Fighters and medical vessels are being sent." said another officer

"Sir! It appears an ISF vessel is heading towards the object at full speed, wants an escort so he doesn't get destroyed. Seems he's going to ram into the object. Self destruct initiation also detected on their SD." said the communications officer

"Full speed, get us in range of that thing quickly before those fools ram it!"

"Yes, sir!"

The vessels heading to support the salvage of the destroyed ships had left the cruiser, as the cruiser flew through space into range of the artifact.

"In range, sir!" reported the navigations officer

"Good, fire the angels at that thing! If that thing is controlled by anything other than machines, it'll be stopped. And ISF won't have to waste a ship."

The weapons officer targeted the artifact and opened up the Crystal Angel cannon,* and fired on the object. The angels hit the thing dead on then disappeared.

"Report! What effect did it have?" asked Akazy

"Well, our scanners cannot scan the inside of the object for some reason, but it seems to have stopped firing for the moment. Maybe it worked." replied the science officer

"Excellent, prepare to hail the rest of the ships and tell the....." the Admiral was cut off as the object fired the large blast of energy back at the Defiance. All the men on the ship immeadiatly starte screaming and hollering as their particules started imploding causing them to be completely erased from the universe, leaving the ship in total silence.

*Crystal Angels are our secret weapon. The cannon fires a giant beam of pure energy which can penetrate anything. But it only effects organic beings, a.k.a, life forms. It leaves anything else intact. Can only be fired every 24 hours, not sure for this alien thingamagiger tho.

Owens was calmly moving to give cover for the damaged ships when a seemingly unharmed ship stopped transmitting signals and began to drift.

"Sir, its heading straight towards us!"

"What the hell is wrong with them? Hard to starboard! Get out of range!"

The two ships nearly scraped hulls as they passed eachother.

"Defiance! Respond! Anyone aboard the Defiance! Respond damnit!"

He put down the communicator.

"Alert the other ships that the Defiance is floating dead, keep moving towards the other ships to supply defense, shields at maximum."

"Aye sir."

The men aboard the bridge immediately got to work.

Compared to the larger captial ship's entrance, it was fairly easy to miss the tiny Blockcade Runner ship jumping into system. It doesn't try to establish contact with any of the other ships, instead moving to take refuge amonsgt some nearby space debris, going into silent running mode.

The black market modified ship would be easy to miss. Special electronic devices in the the hull would give it the appearance of random space junk to all but the most advanced sensors, and the pitch black paint job made spotting by the naked eye impossible against the void of space.

On the bridge of the ship, the scantitly clad Catgirl leader of the smuggler group sighed. "I do hope these guys destroy each other soon." B. Queen said, drumming her fingers against the armrests on her captain's chair.

"Aye. Just reading some of the passive scans, and phew boy! Just half of the tech on one of the captial ships alone can make us rich twice over." The only human of the group said, a man by the name of 'Lone Ghunman.'

"Well, that be good an' all. But Anya be thinking that other ships not be liking us digging through their friends corpses." Peeped in the third member, the young Anya, also a catgirl like their leader.

"They're so busy shooting each other, I doubt they'll notice our tiny ship picking through the remains." B. Queen said, crossing her hands behind her head and propping her legs up on the control console in front of her...


((OOC: Check in the factbok link in my sig for info on B. Queen's group in a few minutes. I'm almost done with the last two members info.))

As the Karl Salim and other ships took great hits from the object, the Sebecean Decimator, SIS MorningStar arrived. As the MorningStar came out of jump, it's CG Cannons and FRAG Cannons locked on to the carrier that was breaking up, and fired. The Massive ship finished off the Battlecarrier until it was nothing more that usless chunks of metal.

ALL WAVEBAND HAIL FROM SIS MORNINGSTAR
This is the SIS MorningStar. We are requesting tactical information and plans to help combat this menace.

((OOC: Setian, I'm confused. Did you just destroy the Defiance?))

((OOC: Setian, I'm confused. Did you just destroy the Defiance?))



Nope, I destroyed the Karl Salim, my new class of ship, to keep its classifeid secrets from you...

Heres a replay of events from my veiw: I shot at the Object, it shot back destroyed on of my ships,; another of my ships jumps in finishes off my half dead ship, and is in holding pattern.

"Holy F*cking hell! The Defiance has just been hit with an angel blast! All Taledonian forces return to the ship, we need to get aboard and take back control!" yelled the fighter pilot to his comrades as they flew away from the now destroyed ship they were going to help. They flew fast back to the nearest hangar on the Defiance and landed. The entire ship would now have to be controlled by 40 fighter pilots and 30 medical personel. It was not looking good. On their way up to the bridge, they couldn't imagine what they were to expect. The flying debris of the other ships could have crushed through the ships hull considering the command crew could have accidentally fell and turned off the shields; or space pirates could have boarded already. The doors of the elevator opened and the men ran out with their pistols drawn.

"Get to the computers, scan the entire ship for other boardings. Make sure the shields are on and check all other systems!" commanded Lt. Kinder to the other men.

The men ran to the various computers and consols, each performing the task required of each station. It was very difficult for they had never operated any other ship than fighters and bombers.

"Martinez, can you get us out of here?" he called over to the man standing behind the navigation consol.

"It will take me awhile to figure out these controls but I should be able to, sir!" he called back.

"Do it fast. If that thing fires another angel blast at us, then there will be no one here to get this thing back. Space pirates would have a field day, and would learn all the Republics secrets and access codes."

The Defiance stopped drifting and came to a complete halt as the men tried to figure everything out. It was going to be a long night.

((OOC: lol. The Blockcade Runners are NOT connected in any way to the Krowemohian government, if that's what you're worried about. Just your average space smugglers and salvegers. :D Taledonia, hope you don't mind if my group is already on board...
Also, do you have AIM? Mine is NeoTetraMagic. IM me, okay?))

B. Queen eyes went wide as she saw what the Battlecruiser was hit with. Something it had used. "That weapon. We HAVE to get the shecmatics for it! Lone, plot a course for the hangar bays."

The vessel skips out of the space debris it had been hiding in, skittering for the Defience.

It lands on a hangar just moments before the Taledonia fighters do, either by divine intervention or pure luck alone the fighters don't land in the same bay.

Instead of heading straight for the bridge, the Blockcade Runners take the engine room. In theroy, most captial ships were designed so that if the bridge fell, the engine room could act as a secondary bridge.

Anya immediately jacks into a nearby computer terminal, using her handheld computer to bypass the ship's security measures. She winces as she sees some of the data going through. "Oi. Someone is here! They be trying to get ship online!"

B. Queen wrinkled her nose. "Block them out. Cut off the bridge's control, and reroute it here. Vex, you and Jet get back to the Blockcade Runner, and get that Vector AGWS. I think we're going to be needed it soon. Lone, cover the door." The two twins nodded, leaving the engine room, as Lone Ghunman drew both pistols, taking us a position so as to provide the most cover possible.

Anya, meanwhile, was busy transplating her signal source to other locations in the ship, to make it appear as if she were accessing many terminals at once from many different locations, to confuse anyone who tried to figure out where she was sending the commands to lock down the bridge's access...


((OOC: The Blockcade Runner's AGWS (http://premium1.uploadit.org/BetaVerisonX//ag_ft_01.jpg). A Mecha designed for hostile ship boarding actions.))

(OOC: Please don't do that, it's GM to claim that my engine room would be a secondary bridge. But I have no problem with you being onboard.)

IC:

"Sir! Life signs in engine room 4! And a security breach has been detected in the mainframe!"

"Block out the signal! Martinez, get to an armory with 5 others and gear up. Then go see who's home."

"My pleasure!"

As Martinez and 5 other pilots left the bridge to the armory, the others continued what they were doing. The engine room was locked down so that knowone could get in or out.

"How are we doing?"

"We can be back online at your command. Say the word and we can come about and jump back to space dock."

"Do that. We need to get this ship out of danger, and these boarders can be dealt with there."

The ships engines came online and the ship started to turn. A few minutes later it jumped into hyperspace and headed back to the Taledonian system. Once they arrived, they started heading towards one of the space docks.

"Defiance, this is Taledonian Space Command, identify please." said an officer stationed in the control room of the large space station sitting near the space docks.

"Command, this is Lt. Kinder. The Defiance engaged a large alien device with Crystal Angels, but the Angels were mimicked and fired back at the Defiance. All crew are dead except the few of us who were not present in the ship at the time. We have foreign boarders in engine room 4. We request immeadiate permission to dock."

"Roger, Kinder. Proceed to station 12, follow the escorts." said the officer.

The Defiance followed the 2 TF-20s to the space dock, then flew into the large cylandrical device. As the ship docked, the men in the bridge left the ship and went out into the space dock to the awaiting security force that had been dispatched. 50 soldiers stood waiting as the men walked up to them.

"The intruders are in engine room 4. We have the room sealed off and 6 men guarding it. Also, the boarders ship is in docking bay 23, check it out as well."

"Yes, sir!" said Cpt. Morgan, the leader of the small force of soldiers.

They fanned out and moved down into the ship to the engine room.

OOC: wow.. lots of posts. sorry i've been absent, my comp's been screwy.

Ic: Any shots fired at the thing were replicated.

THE ISF ESD was closer to the thing, the ETA was about 5 minutes.

"WE are not intending to ram. WE do know how to destroy this thing, but we have to be close!"

The Orion's Arm sidled up next to the ESD

"ESD, do you need assistance in this plan? I don't suppose we could help any more than we already are."

The interception missles from the ships primary rocket lauchers were nearly depleted having been non stopped fired at the debris being thrown around the battlezone.

"Keep everything off of us! we only need to get close, then self destruct. hopefully it will do the same"

bump

((OOC: GM = Godmod? lol Sorry. I was just going with canon here. To my knowledge, most starships are made so that if the bridge is lost or taken, then the engine room could easy sub as second bridge. I shoulda asked first.
>_> Although, one could argue that you're doing the same thing (GodModding, that is.) Moving the ship, docking with a station, rallying men to gaurd a particular section of a ship takes time. Time which my smugglers could have used to escape, upon realizing that the ship wasn't under their control anymore. By doing it all in one post like that, it forces the characters into a bad sitaution.
lol Hmmm... Yeah, I think I'll cut my losses here and tactfully withdraw. Erm, ICly, of course. Also, I'm going to have Anya just download one random thing from your ship's databank, if that's alright. It's bad policy to board a ship and leave empty handed. :p I'll let you decided what it was Anya managed to snag, mmkay Taledonia?))


B. Queen frowned. This just went from bad, to worst. On one hand, they had one of the best hackers she had ever known in one of the engine room, one of Vector Industries latest Anti-Gravity Weapons Systems in the same engine room, and two of the best male gunslingers she could find.

On the other hand, while Anya was busy downloading something from the ship's databank which they could turn around and sell to the black market, the Defiance had managed to dock with a station, and they were reinforcing their soldiers. A handful of security guards, her group could handle fine.

But soldiers? Full time military personnel would prove a touchy situation which called for more then your run of the mill strong-arm tactics.

They had managed to shut and seal the door to this engine room; while it kept the soldiers out, it also kept them in. Thus far, B. Queen didn't try to negoiate a way out, yet. That would remain open, but first, she needed to see if Anya could perhaps pull up the ship's layout, maybe find a ventilation shaft they could craw through to get back to the Blackcade Runner.†

Of course, that'd mean they'd have to leave the AGWS behind. But, it was a sacrifice she was willing to make. "Anya, try and see if you can pull up a layout of this ship. I want ventilation systems, maintenace access ways, and anything that we can use to get out of here. Prep the Runner for lauch, too. Lone, you and Jet get ready to lay down cover fire if they somehow manage to breach the door. Vex, I want you behind them, laying down supressive fire as well."

The nine foot Mecha moved into a firing position behind the two men, dropping to one knee and leveling it's Mech SMG at the door. Jet and Lone, while both wore more clothing then the other two females combined, still sought cover behind anything they could grab that was both heavy and not nailed down to something else.

~~~~~~~~
Meanwhile, in Docking Bay 23...
~~~~~~~~

Even those unfamiliar with ship design could tell the Blockcade Runner ship was one designed for one thing. Speed. The hull was painted pitch black, so as to be undistingishable against the void of space.

The ship was cleverly designed. One would expect that knowing of the crew, as well as it's obvious purpose, that many black market modifications would be abundently obvious on the ship. Yet, in the case of the Blockcade Runner, none were obvious to the naked eye. The sleek, sweep wing freighter was as elegent as most royalty cruise liners.

A more thorough scan would reveil that the hull was very effective at blocking out most forms of scanners. It seemed that there were devices within the hull which create massive electronic interefernce, as well as giving off signatures would would make the ship appear as a random piece of metallic space junk to most ship sensors.

Beside all this, the vessel was also sealed tighter then a Tomb. The hatchway which granted personnel access to the inner workings of the ship was locked with both a handprint scanner and an access code keypad. The keypad terminal lacked a device input receptor, so 'jacking' in with a security bypass device was impossible. It seemed locks designed by theives were extra difficult to pick... The cargo access hatch itself couldn't be opened from the outside, either.

As Taledonia personnel went about trying to figure out what to do with this marvel of black market engineering, a low, deep humming sound began to resonate within it. At first, it was barely noticble above the sounds of the Defiance's own engines. Yet, as the ship powered up more of it's systems and completed steps in the pre-launch checklist, the thrum became louder in pitch, the ship's Particle Transistion Reactor coming online to full power.

Someone was inside the ship still! Which meant that external point defense guns could come online at any minute to clear the docking bay of any hostiles!

~~~~~~~~~
Same time, Engine Room 4...
~~~~~~~~~

Anya flashed B. Queen a thumbs up. "Anya got the ship running. It be ready fer take off whenever yer are, boss."

B. Queen nodded approvingly. First bit of good news she's heard since jumping in system. "Good. Keep working on that ship layout!"



((OOC: †: Tale, your call if Anya gets these or not. This would be the easist way for my characters to escape alive. It'd also involve the least amount of roleplay between our characters. If you wanna try a diplomatic negoitation course, I'm open for that too. :D))

The ISF ESD reached the destination. A single pinnace launched from it's empty landing bays.

Then it blew. A massive explosion, starting internaly, and gradualy growing outwards, consumend the ship.

Just over 5 seconds later, the unknown thing attempted t replicate it. several times.

The black feild flickerd, then shut down. The device was a ball of flame.

The pinnace hadn't gone unscratched however. It had been clipped by the ESD's debris, and it's engines were offline. An automated distress call went out from it, no word from anyone inside of it.

The new crew members who raced into the bridge scanned everything when the troops sent them a message.

"They've blocked off the door, release the gas into the chamber, and bring up the tractor beam to make sure that ship doesn't get out."

They all took positions around the doors as the ventilation shafts started pooring out sleeper gas to know everyone out. Also, the tractor beam kicked in so the ship would not be able to escape. The Taledonians were angry about being boarded and were going to put these intruders to trail one way or another.

(OOC: You didn't get the schematics, your trapped in the room with the gas coming in and 50 trained soldiers outside the doors. And the thing she downloaded is the map to all galaxies under the control of the Republic.)

The ISF Grand Fleet flagship, the ISF DEvastator, jumped in-system.

"Siir, the pinnace ESD has destroyed the object. However, the esdcape pinnace was damaged."

"Retrieve it"

"Yes, Sir."

The Devastator picked up the pinace, and hurried the unconcious pilot to the med-center.

"Sir, from the Pinnace's records, the Taledonian ship Defiance was hit by the Angel cannons. A small crew survived, but they were boarded by something unknown. They jumped out of system"

"Where to?"

"Unknown yet, sir. We are working on it."

"Good. Tell me when you get it."

A few minutes later, the oficer spoke up. "Sir, they jumped to the Taledonian system. They had only a few life-signs on board, a few of them of the intruders."

"Jump to the Taledonian syetem"

"Aye, sir."

The Devastator jumped, and a few minutes later was in the Taledonian system.

"Taledonia, this is the ISF [/i]Devastator[/i]. Just making a quick pit-stop. May we refuel at your space station?"

"ISF Devastator, this is Taledonian Space Command. Authorization to dock and refuel granted. Follow the escort to docking bay 4."

Five TF-20s flew over to the Devastator,

"ISF Devastator, this is Cpt. Weisly, do you copy, over? Follow us to the docking bay please, over"

"WE copy. Following you now"

The Devastator dwarfed the escorts, but it was a giant vessel on anyone's scale, let alone comparing it to small craft.

It docked with the space Station as it was ordered.

"This is the Laskonian warship Orion's Arm, requesting permission to dock and refuel. Also, congratulations on destroying that ship."

((OOC: Taledonia, check your TGs. I'll make a post as soon as you respond.))

OOC: Don't think he's on.

IC: The com operator, at the Lord Commander's request, switched the channel to the Defiance.

"Defiance, this is the ISF Devastator. We have indications that you have intruders onboard. Would you like any help? We can have a fighter cover around your docking bays to prevent their escape if they manage to get to their ship and out of the bay."

"ISF, we have several TF-20s patrolling around the Defiance, but more support is welcome."

"Roger. We will be sending out 50 of our A-8s."

A few seconds later, the 50 said fighters lauched and took posistion around the Defiance, Guarding the launch bays from anyhting launching

((OOC: With that cleared up, onto posting. :D))

The gas filters into the engine room. B. Queen curses, putting one hand up to her mouth in a vain effort. "It's posion! Vex... I leave this... In your..." Before she could finish, B. Queen falls to the ground, unconscious, Lone, Jet, and Anya too following suit.

Unforunately for the Taledonians, Vector Industries manafactured AGWS sport their own independent supply of oxygen, and could seal itself so as to withstand the vaccum of outer space. An airtight seal meant that gases couldn't enter and affect her.

Also, Vex was uber protective of her twin brother Jet. Snarling, the lone female Neko manuevers the Mecha to scoop up the bodies of each of her gang mates, holding them in the left arm, where the bulk of the Beam Splitter Shield would protect them if the Taledonians fired upon her.

All that remained now was to attempt to get back to the Blockcade Runner...

Already a plan formed in her mind. I'll wait for them to open the door. They don't know I'm still awake, they won't be expecting this five ton baby to rush them. She had memorized the route up to here from the hangar bay, getting back in a rush would be no problem.


((OOC2: For some reason, I think I already know how you're going to respond. Tsk tsk. It seems orginality and selfless thinking are not your forte. Sigh. Ah wells, ah wells. You plan with the cards you're given. ;)
Unless you do what I think you're going to do, once they open that door, Vex is going to bum rush the line, and bee line for the hangar bay 23. Although she won't fire the Mech SMG at anyone, it's not her fault if she tramples whoever's directly in front of the MEch when it comes a charging. :D))

"Gas is ventilated, clear to proceed." said the bridge to the troops at the engine room.

"Right, moving in. Have it ready."

"Will do."

The door slid up and the men took their aim on the mecha, but didn't fire just yet.

(OOC: When you charge, please don't post that you got out of the room. I would post that you charged already but that would be GM, and my plan doesn't allow you out of the room.)

"Dammit, are they going to let us dock or not?"

Commander Owens cursed again and walked to his room, this was going to get sticky if the nation owning this space got angry about the tresspassing, even if it was for a good cause.

(OOC: Ok, I've gotten permission to RP the charge.)

The mecha charged the ready soldiers, almost at the point of crushing over them, when, suddenly, it hit the forcefield covering the doorway, making it fall to the ground. The forcefield then shut off and the troops ran inside and quickly surrounded it. Weapons pointed, they ordered the operater to open the mecha suit.

Space

"Laskonian ship. Denied clearance to dock and refuel at this time. We are having small difficulties with pirates and would like you to position your ship by the Defiance and create a blockade so nothing can get throught. Once this is done and the problem is taken care of, you may proceed to docking bay. Taledonian Space Command out!"

"No problem, Taledonian control, moving into position now."

The Orion's Arm quietly moved through space next to the defiance, if it tried to move, it would smash into the smaller Laskonian warship, but likely damaging it heavily.

The A-8s moved out of the way of the Laskonian ship

Vex hissed as her AGWS ran head first into an invisible force field. Damn those things! She thought as the Mecha fell onto its backside.

The soldeirs quickly surrounded her Mecha. She paid them no mind at first, confident that the Mech's armor would stop the heaviest weapon they could throw at her. Then she realized they were aiming at the rest of her group in her Mech's arm. Sure, she'd be protected from the soldier's guns inside her armor, but her fellow mates were defenseless. Then again, if they slaughtered her twin brother, she'd probably go to extra lengths to ensure that everyone on this ship died very short but very painful deaths. Of course, that wouldn't bring Jet back, and blood lust only grants so much comfort. Heaving a heavy sigh, Vex turns on the external speaker.

"Alright. I surrender. Hold your fire. I'm disarming and popping the top now..." Her voice came through the Mech's head. The single lighted 'eye' on the AGWS dimmed until it was out completely, then the entire 'head' swung open outward on a hinge.

The very top part of the silver haired catgirl's head was visible. After locking the Mech's controls with a passcode, she placed both hands on the outer rim of the Mech and hauled herself out, then hopped onto the ground, placing both hands behind her back and getting down on her knees.

The white body-suited catgirl kept her chin low, having obviously been arrested a few times before in the past, and knowing the drill well enough...

The guards put the energy cuffs on the girl, and the rest of her friends. They then escorted her, while carrying the others, out of the engine room and started heading towards the exit; while the other men took all the pirates gear and weaponary.

Taledon, Taledonia

The Imperial Senate of Taledonia was assembled into the Senate agora, were all things were discussed and passed within the Republic. They all entered and started mingling with their comrades, waiting for the men to bring the prisoners down to the surface for their trial. Among them, was Imperator Kellerman; leader of the Taledonian people and head of the Republic. He was to be the supreme judge.

Taledonian legal systems act differently than those of the planet earth. There are no lawyers, no jury, just the senate. The defendants plead their cases while the senators ask questions and evidence is provided. After a long discussion, a verdict is decided by the senators and carried out by the Imperial Preatorians.

Commander Owens heaved a sigh of relief at the signal that the pirates had been apprehended.

He then requested that a Raptor take his security advisor down to the surface to testify against the pirate scum, he awaited an answer.

"Laskonian ship, this is Taledonian Space Command. Authorisation to dock and re-fuel now granted. Follow your escorts. Permission also granted to send people down to the surface to oversee the trial. Your testimony is not needed however, we do things differently than what your use to."

"Very well, TSC, preparing to dock and sending represenatives down now."

Owens nodded at the communications officer who sent the message to the docking bay that it was a go for the mission, the raptor silently dropped out and floated down to the planet.

The Orion's Arm docked at the star base and began the necessary checks after an armed conflict.

"Taledonian command, this is the ISF Devastator, We have finished re-fueling and are removing ourselves from dock. Where would you like us to go? And may we also send a represenative to the surface, and a few scientists to study the rouge's ship?"

The Devastator pulled away from the dock, then began recovering her fighters. All 50 were brought abord, with only one experiencing any dificulties.

"ISF Devastator, please proceed into a close orbit with the planet and await there. You may send a representative from there."

Taledon, Taledonia

The prisoners were now all awake from the gas, and were sitting in a locked room waiting. When the door opened, 15 guards came in and took them to another room which was full of showers. They stripped the prisoners of their distastful clothing and bathed them. They were then issued ceremonial togas made of white linen to wear at the trail, and the females were even spraid with an expensive perfume. All these preparations were taking place as the Senators took their places in the Agora.

"Taledonian Command, did I just hear you right? Did you say 'close orbit'? With all due respect, we cannot do so. It is a phisical absurdity. We are a 20 kilometer long ship, with a lot of mass. We are in about as close orbit as we can get without being ablen to get back out. Pushing this thing from a gravity well is very hard, and impossible without other special ships.

And our represenative is away."

The two-seater unarmed A-8 had launched and was proceeding down to the planet

Security commander Sam Cartson looked down at the tribunal as the raptor settled down on a landing pad nearby, with four security personal with him, they made their way to the door of the massive building, and spoke with a guard there.

"Laskonian representatives, here, permission to enter the building."

"Devastator, you heard correct, close orbit. We have special docking bays for diplomatic affairs, your ship will be able to get in and out."

Taledon, Taledonia

"Permission granted," said the guard to the Laskonian. As the representative entered the room and the senators took their seats while the prisoners were brought in.

They were placed in the middle of the room to be observed by all. Imperator Kellerman took his place at the head of the senate and said in a commanding and superior tone, "You have been charged with acts of piracy and foul deeds upon ours and many other nations. What do you have to say in your defence?"

"Taledonian Command, this ship will not be able to get out of a lcose orbit. We refuse to go any closer than we are."

"As you wish Devastator, you would be able to get out but it's your call. Re-dock with one of the outer docking bays please."

"Devastator, you heard correct, close orbit. We have special docking bays for diplomatic affairs, your ship will be able to get in and out."

Taledon, Taledonia

"Permission granted," said the guard to the Laskonian. As the representative entered the room and the senators took their seats while the prisoners were brought in.

They were placed in the middle of the room to be observed by all. Imperator Kellerman took his place at the head of the senate and said in a commanding and superior tone, "You have been charged with acts of piracy and foul deeds upon ours and many other nations. What do you have to say in your defence?"


Cartson and the guards crept to the back and sat down in several chairs waiting in the back, they leaned in to watch the trial.

Col. Recihman joined the Laskonian represenatives when he was premitted to enter the trial area.

ISF Devastator, Taledonian Orbit[/i]
"Copy that, Taledonian Command. Docking with the station now."