The 2nd Galactic Civil War (FT, open-slightly) [Archive]

Thrashia

06-12-2005, 22:21

OOC: This is carrying over from another thread, where CoreWorlds (rp'ing as Unified Sith) is assaulting my home system on allegations that I am a traitor to the GE (which though I may be, theres no real proof ICly) and is coming to get me. Those who are my allies or that of CoreWorlds, feel free to join in. This is the start of my long planned coup det'at of the GE command.
(CW's beginning post of assault (http://forums.jolt.co.uk/showthread.php?t=457122&page=2))

IC:

Grand Admiral Alabar finally walked onto the bridge of his command ship, the Incarnate Soveriegn-class Super Star Destroyer. He and Grand Admiral Schwartz had just left the meeting concerning the gathering of allies against Empress Nightshade, but it seemed that the Empress in her eagerness, had 'jumped the gun' so to speak, and Thrashian intelligence had reported a large fleet of Imperial ships and the Death Star leaving from Curoscant and then from the dead Alderaan system. Their direction paths pointed at the Thrashian System.

"Get me an active report on our mobilization now!" said Alabar. The crew pits were full of activity as messages were being sent back and forth between different parts of the fleet and of the ship. Captain Dorna walked forward.

"Sir, presently as the Emperor requested, all fleets 1-7 are fully manned and awaiting orders on high alert. The 8th fleet is still getting up to speed on things and crewing on the far side of the system. The 9th fleet under Admiral Viersan is still coming in, they are gathering here," he pointed at a spot in a small map of the Thrashian system. "-in this quadrant, since they are the largest fleet, they have had trouble gathering all ships from the outposts around space," Dorna said.

"Very well, and the ETA of the enemy fleet?" asked Alabar, nervous now slightly, not wanting to be ill-prepared to meet this new foe.

"According to our calculation, it will be 2 hours, 34 minutes, and 54 seconds...that is the fleet itself. The Death Star would arrive 20 minutes after the fleet. Unless the fleet travelled at the same hyper-speed as the Death Star, then we would have 2 hours, 53 minutes, and 34 seconds of time."

Alabar squirmed in his command chair. So little time, yet he had to do it. "Have all Crusader Space Stations checked in?" asked Alabar, mentioning the large battle stations that were better than even a mass of Golan Vs.

"Yes Admiral, all 6 are checked in. General Xavier commanding has made sure all droid fighters aboard them have been turned on and await orders to launch and fight. General Xavier has positioned his first two stations at the Mouth."

The Mouth was the only real entrance to the Thrashian System. Because of its original creation from the Titan Project, the project to create a second earth for a new Thrashian Planet, was so important the orignal creators had picked a defensible location. A large massive and dense astroid field coverd what could be considered the top of the system, occasionally every few years a couple would tumble into Thrashian space, but the PDF always had the job of testing Thrashia's planetary guns on these items of interest. 'Below' the system were several black holes, some artifically created by a mad astro engineer several years ago who ahd control of a device similair to the Sun Crunsher, but was stopped.

And then all around the stretches of Thrashian space were inumerable mines a great field of them layed like layers of blankets upon space, kept in place by inhibitor fields stations around on sattelites and stations orbiting around Thrashia Prime. There were gaps in the fields, but only high commander knew their locations. And Indictor Cruisers and a few gun platforms guarded each.

The 'Mouth' was a large gap in the fields and was safe, an expanse of several hundred kilometes, from harming ships passing through. A pict screen came up showing Alabar their locations strategically placed.

"Has Grand Admiral Schwartz reported in yet?" asked Alabar. Shcwartz had taken up the 'rear' position so to speak and went to the Epion, the large Death Star sized space station (without super laser) which was the headquarters of the Thrashian Imperial Fleet.

"Yes sir, he says the MAGI system has been turned on, and it is preparing the LSBICOS ('Large Scale Battle Instant Communications Operation Systems)' for activation, should be online in 20 minutes. From there he says he will command the 5-7th fleets. He leaves you command of his flagship and the fleets 1-4," said Dorna who dismissed a comms operator back to his station.

"Very well. I want the first and second fleet to prepare a 'wall' formation across the 'Mouth', with all SDs taking frontal positions, SSDs to take strategic positions, and the Shadow Cruisers to get in positions here," he pointed to the corner areas of the Mouth. "- and here for use of their "Death's Hand" grand cannons. And tell the carriers to hold back their fighters until I order," said Alabar. He pressed a button and his command chair brought a small command holo screen up to his face where he could see his ships deploying.

"The 3rd and 4th fleets will remain in reserve, for the time being, I will call upon them a little at a time. Because the space is not total, it will limit the number of ships they can bring to the fore at one time, but only a little."

"Quite sir," said Dorna.

"Carry on captain, we have other preperations to make, we have our homeland to defend. Spread that among the fleets, let every Thrashian remember whats at stake here," said Alabar. He pressed a button and the blue-green sphere of Thrashia Prime appeared. "Let them remember for what they are fighting for."

Mini Miehm

06-12-2005, 22:28

OOC: I'll post ICly later, but I thought I could at least post my numbers for this fight now.

Metal Militia II class SuperDreadnoughts: Death, Four Horsemen, Metal Militia II.

Metal Militia class Dreadnoughts: Justice, Lightning, Master of Puppets, Bad Seed, Prince Charming, Saint Anger, King Nothing, Sanitarium, Sandman

Hyperion

NORAD III

90 Leviathan Battlecruisers

9 Carrier Groups

360 Podlayers

3,000 Genesis Interceptors

3,000 Corsairs

30,000 Wraiths

3,000 Scouts

1,500 Valkyries

900 Legion Gunships

1,500 Grizzly Gunships

And that’s all I have available to send at the moment, depending on how things turn out, there may be reinforcements in the form of my Battleglobe arriving, as well as the personal ships of every one of my heroes that’s unoccupied elsewhere.

The Kraven Corporation

06-12-2005, 22:33

The Harvester Scout ship encountered earlier by Thrashia's Patrol craft had given the ship co-ordinates towards, what was known to Humans as Coruscant, but even so the Karrack Scout ship simply relayed the Co-ordinates to the Main Harvester Fleet, which in turn would send another Scout ship towards Coruscant, to see wether or not it was as system full of Genetic material...

As For the first Scout ship, it was shadowing the Patrol craft, feining a break away and moving away towards the Co-ordiantes of Corscant...

But now it followed the Patrol Craft back towards the The Origin of the Craft

Thrashia

06-12-2005, 22:35

-snip-

OOC: That patrol craft isn't going anywhere near Thrashian Home system buddy. So nice try, but you'll have to settle with the coordinates I gave you. :D

The Kraven Corporation

06-12-2005, 22:36

OOC: That patrol craft isn't going anywhere near Thrashian Home system buddy. So nice try, but you'll have to settle with the coordinates I gave you. :D

OOC: Ok, I'll Edit it, but either way its still shadowing your craft

Thrashia

06-12-2005, 22:37

OOC: Perfectly fine. Hope your fiends find Coruscant's large juicy population to your liking.

The Kraven Corporation

06-12-2005, 22:41

Thrashia

06-12-2005, 22:49

OOC: This is my last post of the night, so CW if you post just make the opening movements, like appearing and making your normal Imperial statement of surrender or boom. (:D) See you in the morning.

Mini Miehm

06-12-2005, 22:56

OOC: Kraven, down boy... That being said... We're not going to have to fight more of those damn things are we???

IC:

The Vanguard of the fleet appeared in the system, 3 SDns, 9 Dns, thouysands of fighters, hundreds of gunships, and nearly 100 Battlecruisers all made the translation to assist Thrashia, along with NORAD III, the Hyperion, Topos, Sanctum, The Fist of Krosa, Stoneface, The Gladiator, Elemental Fury, and the five Primevals, and, adding insult to injury, Karoma's Magic of Otaria followed them in, along with Urza, and Mishra.

There may have been hundreds of Capitol Ships in the system now, but that was only the opening move, soon the Battleglobe would arrive, and then things would get really messy for the attacking forces.

Unified Sith

06-12-2005, 23:00

Coruscant System

The very Fabric of Space was torn open, as the Harvesters Krakken Scout ship entered real space, leaving behind a swirling Morrass of Negative space, these were the Co-ordinates relayed to the First Scout ship Thrashia had encountered, the Co-ordinates were to Coruscant, and now the Scout ship was here to determine wether it was worth it to Signal the Full Harvester fleet and lay waste to this system...

Slowly the Biolgical Craft moved through space, growing ever closer to the system, preparing to attack any life signs....

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Immediately upon detection and without warning, it was trapped by FTLi fields and attacked by thousands of turbolasers from the Imperial Home Defense fleet stationed at Coruscant. In war, the Empire is completely ruthless, and especially touchy when someone...unknown...comes in the capital system of the Galactic Empire.

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Meanwhile, the first opening movements of the grand chess game that is the Galaxy came to play. Out of hyperspace, faster than anything else the Empire has except for Galaxy Gun bullets, came pitch-black probe droids. Clouds of millions of the tiny, cheaply produced droids entered the Thrashian home defense systems from all sides to do what they were programmed to do: Probe the defenses and knock out any mines put in place by the traitors. After all, the Imperials aren't stupid, only arrogant and rightly so.

Khurgan

07-12-2005, 00:32

The Khurganate had never seen wisdom in the massive fleets of vessels used by the Imperials and their kin. Thus, the armada that emerged from the Warp was somewhat smaller in number, but each ship was the equal of a thousand of their equivalents amongst the simple Star Destroyers fielded by the Imperial forces. Dwarfing the Sith ISDs that surrounded them, the gargantuan hulks of Cataclysms and Firewyrms flashed into existance in a blaze of warpfire. Even a group of magnificent Lord of Change battleships floated in the void. And dwarfing all of them, the Changer of the Ways, the flagship of Lord Helion, the Hand of Change.

Sitting upon the Throne of Tzeentch, Helion looked out upon the void, his mind surveying the Sith armada layed out before him. With the mental equivalent of a wave of the hand, a psychic message boomed out across the void.

True servants of the Sith.... I, Warmaster Helion of the Khurganate, hereby devote my forces to your cause. My fleet shall aid yours in the upcoming conflict. May Tzeentch guide your hand, and let Thrashia burn.

Godular

07-12-2005, 01:02

Neo Zeta

07-12-2005, 02:08

A Fleet of 40 Neo Zetan Ships set in Nutrual Terrtory their long range sensors picking up the activity. They would wait for orders from High Command untell then they set their with cloaks online.

OOC: The Cloaks are more useful agianst long range sensors. Get near them and you can tell they are there. But for now they arnt in Empire or Thrashian space. Fleet make up is 10 Droid BattleCruisers, One Eclipse SSD, 20 Exitus Class Star Destroyers and 9 Malta Class Carriers ( 60 fighters each)

Kyanges

07-12-2005, 02:10

In the midst of all the vessels appearing on both sides of the 'line', there was a single vessel on the Thrashian side. Not at all the largest vessel in the universe. It barely even qualified as a medium sized vessel. It was a single Godulan Mako Star Destroyer, and it had just come from the diplomatic meeting along with the Thrashian delegation.

As it arrived in-system, it altered its power signature to match that of the Thrashians and moved off. A single message was sent to the Thrashian world:

We hate to ask of this burden, but we will require an escort. We cannot do what we promised if we die too quickly.

A flash, and a shock of energy. The clear signs that yet another fleet had arrived. In this case, it was the Eshirian Fleet. Along side the other vessels of their allies, the ships in this "Armada" were down right puny in comparison. Tiny in size, though supremely powerful, the Eshirian vessels matched others not by brute strength, size, or simple numbers, but rather through flexible tactics, advanced technology, and the occasional fighter swarm if need be...

{Damn these ships are huge...}

Commander Te'kel sat onboard the bridge ESV Preamus, flagship of the Sovereign Space Forces (SSF) and the pride of the fleet. It was the only vessel which even began to approach the other ships in size, though it could be considered a lightwieght.

"All vessels, this is Commander Te'kel. Stand by all batteries, ready siege cannons and stand fighters on code 2 (in the launch tubes.)"

"Aye." replied the tactical officer.

As he gave the order, a message came through, which was apparently was broadcast from the Godulan vessel to the Thrashian world below. In response, Te'kel issued the following message:

Escort? We'll move four Shade Cruisers to do so if you're alright with that.

(OOC: Ships in the combined fleet are:

-10 Preamus Class Battle Carriers
-20 Arc Class Destroyers
-35 Shade Class Cruisers
-30 Glint Class Assault vessels, (Close Range Attack/Boarding ships.)
-50 UL Class Carriers
Fighters:
-2,000+ Sirai Class SSFs
-800+ Mirai Class Torpedo Craft
-1000+ Piria Class Fast Attack Fighters.)

Godular

07-12-2005, 06:55

That will do nicely. We will be taking a position somewhat removed from the likely location of the battle proper, but there is a chance we will see combat nonetheless. We will need to keep powersignatures to a minimum unless absolutely necessary, in order to make ourselves as inobtrusive as possible. As long as we emulate the Thrashian power signature, nobody should be able to see us as a Godulan vessel.

To all allied vessels, it is imperative that you do NOT utilize superlasers or other forms of high yield direct fire weaponry for this battle. I repeat, it is imperative that you avoid using high yield direct fire weaponry for this battle.

OOC: Thrashia- Does the planet have a moon? If there is it would make for a decent hiding place.

The Polaris Castes

07-12-2005, 07:20

CoreWorlds

07-12-2005, 07:26

OOC: I don't think I'm going to choose a side, but could I simply issue statements and neutral aid to both sides (I just want approval before I write an IC post). Perhaps when the dust settles I could help mediate a treaty...
OOC: Considering that this is a war of punishment, I don't think a treaty will help. 'sides, it's treated publicly as an internal alliance matter.

Thrashia

07-12-2005, 08:49

OOC: Yes Godular, theres one moon.

IC: Alabar watched as fleets of enemy and allied ships arrived, one after another. So far the great nations of Neo Zeta, Kyanges, Mini Miehm, and even the lone ship of Godular.

"Captain send an affirmative to the Godular ship. Damn it, but now we won't be able to use our axle-lasers on the soveriegns...all droid fighters on the Crusaders to launch, now!" said Alabar.

From inside their great bellies the massive Crusader stations spit forth thousands upon thousands of fighters, numbering some 15,000 fighters. "Fighters are to concentrate on enemy fighters, and try immobilizing the larger ships," said General Xavier from his command center on one of the Crusaders.

Alabar watched as the mass of fighters launched. He turned to Dorna. "All Tie Fighter squadrons and wings are ready captain?"

"Yes sir they are," he said. Alabar nodded. He knew that he could unleash a massive tide of Tie Fighters, but it was not yet time to do so, let the droids handle it. Suddenly a comms officer rushed over.

"Sir, Grand Admiral Schwartz reports that a massive amount of probe droids are being sent into the mine fields. A few have managed to blow mines but other than that they seem to be just massing but Admiral Schwartz says its no longer a problem," he said.

Alabar laughed. "They thought they could get rid of the mine fields so easily. AHAHA! So probe droids other than banging around, wont do anything!" Alabar clapped his hands.

Star Destroyers of all types, and cruisers, and all kinds of the ships from the 1-2nd fleets moved forward slightly, taking up position.

Grand Admiral Schwartz stood watching through the MAGI system as the battle unfolded. He had been worried when the probes had attacked and had had the MAGI quickly recalibrate the detection frequency of the mines, about 14% of the mines had been destroyed however, but enough remained to make it costly to any fleet to ente. Now he was just wondering what to do with all those probe droids. He thought about it, and decided there was nothing he could do about them now. They'd just be floating scrap metal.

"Sir, the fleets of Mini Meihm have been appearing, as well as the fighter groups from Neo Zeta, we've told them to asked them to take the best positions they find suitable." said a comms officer.

"Good, send a message to the forces of Kyanges and tell them to do so as well."

"Yes sir," said the officer.

The battle was unfolding.

OOC: I will post my losses along the way.

Kendari

07-12-2005, 08:50

~~~Somewhere along the most likely route of the attacking fleet~~~

FTLi drones: a pirate's best friend. The unmarked, heavily modified Longbow interceptor that currently prowled through this asteroid field carried dozens of them, and it was scattering them widely. With any luck at all, the Imperial fleet would be stopped here. It would be a nothing more than a minor nuisance, a slight delay while they located and destroyed the drones, but this would give the defenders of Thrasia that much longer to prepare.

Hiding the last drone amid the rocks, the Fisherman created a portal and left the system. One minute later, the drones activated. They had no distinguishing characteristics, and any attempt to capture one intact would trigger the self-destruct mode. By the time the Imperial fleet arrived, the interceptor would have reached the defenders, and no sign would remain of who had left this little gift…

OOC: If you don't want to be bothered with this, just say you took a different route.

EDIT: That's assuming anyone hasn't already gotten there...

Neo Zeta

07-12-2005, 09:00

With over half of the fighters in the fleet luanched the Capital Ships Decloaked still out of range from Enemy ships they would leave the fighting to their fighters for now.

" A little longer" Admiral Raven said " Once the Fleet is fully engaged and and the Death Star has moved to this postion" He pointed on a holo map " Then we move in some of our capital ships to attack their flank. I dont care if its heavly defended by then or not. Our mission is to aid our allies best we can."

Bombers had yet to be luanched as they would be used once enemy shields started to fall. Neo Zeta had to be very careful with this group of ships. Chances are no more would be sent to this battle from Home

OOC: Forgot to add that there are 20 Bombers on each carrier too i will edit in a moment.

Godular

07-12-2005, 09:03

OOC: Thrashia- I don't think Khurgan has actually arrived. They joined with the bulk of the Imperial force and should be arriving at the same time they do.

The lone Mako and its escort moved over to the moon, situating itself such that the shadow of the moon cloaked it in a nice shroud of darkness. It also altered its registry to make it appear like a Thrashian light cruiser, and changed its power readings to closely resemble those of a Thrashian vessel. Far removed from the approaching battle, it would simply wait for the critical mistake to be made.

Thrashia

07-12-2005, 12:20

OOC: Ok, I edited it. Parlim will soon be coming to back us up. And Im waiting for Abh to get here as well...

Parlim

07-12-2005, 12:41

The Democratic Federation of Parlim
http://www.nationstates.net/images/flags/uploads/parlim.jpg
[The Federal Theme] (http://media.putfile.com/Federal-Theme)

Against the faint glow of the stars, a Parlimian Admiral gazed out into space. The stars cast a dull luminescence upon his black uniform, a proud Peregrine emblazoned on the chest, and his rank pips shining on his grey collar. He spoke clearly without shifting his gaze, as if to himself, yet another man quickly stepped into view.

“It is time.”

A great rumbling filled the hushed bridge of the Republic, as fuel lines from the massive space-city Port Hope severed and retracted into their gigantic housings. Docking clamps holding the massive “Sword-of-the-Republic”-class vessel detached, and the vessel floated free into space.

Several massive engines powered up, projecting a blue light that outshined some of the closer stars. Two smaller (but still large) ships detached as well, the “Lonestar” class vessels following the Republic’s lead. Ahead, with another brilliant burst of light, a wormhole opened. Barely visible on the other side was the Thrashian system. The three ships sped forward into the void, ready to do battle against the Empire, and any who would endanger their old, old ally.

OoC: Military info on both these classes can be found in my sig, though the thread is somewhat old. I'll update it tonight.

Starenell

07-12-2005, 13:34

Sabrier K'Tan called up the Aerospace Regiment (107+Him Fighters) that he had brought with him, they readied for launch immediatly. Pilots were jumping into their craft, quickly suiting up and one by one, giving the all go to their commanders. The fighters consisted of the faster Jagatai types, and heavier Sabutai. When each wing of thirty-six fighters was ready, it lifted off.

Thrashia

07-12-2005, 15:15

Schwartz listened tentively as his comms officer reported a series of messages. "And the Merchant Guild managed to find as many as possible?" asked Schwartz. His comms officer nodded.

"Yes sir, they say several hundred have been brought from planet Kaindos (2nd planet in the Thrashian System) where their main refinery and ore mines are," he said.

"Very well, continue with operations. How much time on the clock?"

"1 hours, 17 minutes, and 12 seconds sir."

Thrashia

07-12-2005, 18:44

bump (nvm, she left with some gfs, I'm back)

Hobbeebia

07-12-2005, 18:45

OOC: ok Thrash I need to have a quick overview of what has happened thusfar. Oh And I am Here to help thrash......

Unified Sith

07-12-2005, 18:49

The probe droids have smashed themselves uselessly against the mines and other defenses, but they have served their purpose. The Imperial fleet knew the basics of what was there now.

Aboard the Death Star

"Ma'am. We've got confirmation of several enemy fleets insystem, as well as mines and natural defenses protecting planetary north and south." A clone replied.

"Very well." Admiral Keldalri replied. Then she had a thought. "What natural defenses are there?"

"Intense gravity wells, possibly black holes to the south and a massive asteroid field to the north."

"Ah, thank you." The Admiral nodded. Then her mind formulated a plan. It may not work, but it would be interesting nonetheless. "Adjust hyperspace route by point oh three north."

"That puts our exit route above the eclipse."

"That's the idea." The Admiral nodded. "Once the fleet enters the system, prepare all gravity wells and tractor beams for action."

The clone then saw the light. "The asteroids."

"Exactly, Alpha." Admiral Keldalri smiled thinly. After all, it's nothing more than another weapon to use against the enemy. If nothing else, they'll help cover our entrance.

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Soon, in a massive display of Imperial Might, the entire fleet reverted to realspace above the planetary eclipse, at the edge of the dense asteroid field put in place. Moments later, the Death Star itself popped into existence and powered its way forward. As it moved into the field, massive gravity wells and hundreds of thousands of tractorbeams snagged the asteroids and began flinging them into the system itself. The Star Destroyers followed suit with their own smaller number but no less fun tractor beams and the entire fleet began throwing giant rocks at the enemy fleets and planets.

The battle has begun!

Thrashia

07-12-2005, 19:02

OOC: Nice one CW.

"Admiral, our sensors have picked up a large hyperspace exit signature in the 4th quadrant, 400 degrees delfa," said a CommScan operator sitting next to Schwartz.

"Inform Admiral Alabar," said Schwartz. Why was the enemy coming from there. Why be in the astroid field...they can't pass through without massive damage...they can't very well blast every dang one of them. He kept thinking on it.

"Admiral Alabar says he has detected it as well. He asks that you feed this information to the MAGI, find out what they think," said a comms officer.

Schwartz walked over to a ledge, below were three large metal objects, seeming like three large ancient sarcophagus, each teemed with cords and coolent hoses. They were the super computer system installed 10 years before when Emperor Shadaum and Alabar, along with Doctor Hiedegar of the Technological Academy had thought up the orginal design for this master computer. Several operators stood nearby.

"Feed Melchoir the current information on the enemy fleet, and then get them to tell us the possible scenarios," he called down to the operators.

"Yes sir!" The machine techs began working feverishly at their desks, feeding the lines of information into the computers. "How long?" asked Schwartz.

"7 minutes sir!"

"Work fast!"

Unified Sith

07-12-2005, 19:19

OOC: Thanks.

As the numbers crunched into the supercomputers, the Death Star continued clearing a pathway through the asteroid field with its massive wells and tractorbeams. Those who didn't manage to get thrown were simply disintergrated by the planetary-grade shields of the Death Star or the turbolasers of the Star Destroyers following the shadow the Death Star created. Nevertheless, it will take a little time to attack the system directly.

Thrashia

07-12-2005, 19:49

A Praetorian cruiser of the 4th fleet moved out to the end of a line, coming to its positon. "Halt it there Helm, when we get orders from Admiral Viersan or Mic'Feerson, then we'll move but until then we wa-" The captains words were stopped on the dime.

A large astroid had smashed through the cruiser, destroying it's bridge in seconds, then proceeding to stop in the center of the ship, hitting the engines. IN a spactacular explosion the cruiser evaporated.

"Admiral! Admiral Mic'Feerson reports that three of his cruisers have been hit and damaged or destroyed by astroids," said a comms officer, his face was white and sweaty from stress.

Suddenly it clicked in Schwartz's mind. A MAGI tech ran into the room. "Sir, the MAGI all agree that the Imperials are most likely coming through the astroid field, casting the rocks at us as projectiles and perhpas even coming through it," the man said breathelessly.

"How much time do we have before they would be able to break through?"

"Less than half an hour," said the tech. The Comm Scan officer looked up. "sir, our sensors report that the Death Star is making forceful entry through the astroid field, the enemy fleet is assisting."

"Revert all ships, 5-8th fleets to new battle positions. I want a alpha pattern from all Star Destroyering, shifting placement. All Carriers are to come to here, at the 3rd quadrant's right corner, the other four Crusaders are to move up and quickly take position here, here, here, and here." Schwartz said, bent over a 3D holo map of the Thrashian System.

"What of Admiral Alabar sir?"

"Inform him of the situation, and ask him to remain guard. And has the 9th Fleet checked in yet?"

"No Sir, Major Admiral Viersan is still not reported in, he's not even in the system yet."

"Send him a FTL data beam with the current information and occurances. Also inform our allies of whats happening, we have a battle on our hands," said Schwartz.

Astroids, dozens of them, came down from the fields. Some smashed into unsuspecting ships, or were blown away by turbolaser fire. The four large rear placed Crusader stations shifted position, the fleets moved and Star Destroyers and cruisers of the fleets turned their direction to facing the approaching enemy forces.

Alabar was furious. But he calmed himself. He had to expect the enemy would do something like this. He should have known that such simple strategy as coming head on would not be in favour of the Imperial Fleet, but then he thought of something.

"Captain Dorna, command all Praetorian Cruisers to make a quick jump into hyperspace to point 5-c delta," said Alabar, his face lightened up from his idea.

"Sir-"

"Don't question it captain, just do it."

"Yes sir."

73 of the Star Destroyer sized cruisers moved out from the wall of ships sitting in the Mouth and then jumped into hyperspace. They reapeared 20 lightyears from the Mouth, at a 60 degree vertex, making them even on a trajectory level with the Imperial fleet that was 'above' the Thrashian System. Vice Admiral Konner smiled as he listened on the comm to Alabar.

"You bet'ya sir, if you want a crazy as mission, you came to the right man, Konner out." Konner shut down the comms and turned on the communications device that enabled him to speak to the rest of his ships, and his own crew.

"Men, we have been given the duty and honor to strike first into the enemy," a cheer rose up from over the comm and inside the ship. "- we have been given the chance to hit those bastards right in the ass!" more cheers and yells of approval. "And we're going to hit them hard. Falcon group (20 cruisers) is to go in above and hot, soon as you exit HS you launch all fighters and blast ever damned thing you find. Dead Man's Group (30) is to do the same, right behind the Falcons, enter into the lines of the enemy through the gap they create, I want you boys to use those heavy turbolasers and deliver close in broadsides into them. The rest of you are to move in at point 3-4feda, above the enemy, and fire down at the rear of the enemy fleet. We'll take them by surprise."

A cheer echoed out over the ship and the comms.

The 73 cruisers once more entered hyperspace, the reappeared behind the enemy fleet.

20 cruisers from the Falcon group went to top speed and swung down into the mass of Imperial Ships, over 800 fighters launched from their bays and started going into wild patterns of attack meant to confuse and damage.

30 more curisers from the Dead Man's group followed right behind and did the same launching more than a 1,200 tie fighters, doing equally scattering patterns of attack. The turbolasers of each cruiser was blazing, smashing into the Imperial ships.

Above the remaining 23 cruisers took careful aim and began picking off larger ships with concentrated fire.

Parlim

07-12-2005, 20:06

Behind the Thrashian Lines

The three huge ships exited the wormhole, not far behind the Thrashian front lines. The massive, nine kilometer-long Republic changed its course for the battle, engines flaring brightly, and the two smaller six-kilometer long Lonestars in tow. The dull drone of weapons systems slowly powering filled the ships, as pilots rushed to fighters and marines secured the vessel against boarding.

The ships trudged slowly onwards, the flashing of distant laser blasts refracting off the gleaming silver hulls. The humming slowed as the main batteries became fully charged, shields around the vessels flickering to life.

As they reached the front lines, the main guns began to acquire targets, large asteroids or Imperial vessels foolish enough to dart within range of the Republic.

On board, the Admiral smiled grimly at the sign mounted above the entrance. In proud bronze lettering shone the motto of the Republic. Cry havoc, and let slip the dogs of war.

OoC: Thrashia, check TGs

Thrashia

07-12-2005, 20:19

Grand Admiral Schwartz smiled as he listened to the comm operator report the arrival of three rather large ships. The forces of Parlim had arrived. "Send a message of greeting and send them all current data of the current situation," ordered Schwartz.

He watched and was surprised when he saw several ships jump out from Alabar's line. "Where are they going? Get in contact with Admiral Alabar and ask what he is up to."

Khurgan

07-12-2005, 20:36

And so it begins...

With an immense psychic pulse, the Warmaster sent orders to his subordinates. As one, thousands of Hell Tongue fighters swept forth from their hangars, moving to engage the paltry amount of TIEs that had been sent to their deaths. The immense bulks of the Cataclysms and Lords of Change rotated, their broadsides brought to bear on the Thrashian cruisers. With an immense flash, thousands of lance batteries opened fire, beams of energy that would vivisect the smaller cruisers. Streaks of fire burned in space as torpedoes, each the size of a Star Destroyers bridge, arced towards the Praetorians.

Warp portals opened, pouring hordes of Daemons into the bellies of the Thrashian cruisers in a flash of irridescent fire. Screamers howled, their voices driving men mad while their tusks gouged through flesh and bulkheads alike. Horrors of Tzeentch, madly gibbering, stretched their arms to impossible lengths, snapping necks with unholy ease. Flamers sprayed gouts of warpfire, flooding hallways with the mutating flames of the Changer. Firewyrms, massive behemoths, covered in mouths, each one singing maddening hymns to the Great Manipulator, all the while crushing bodies beneath their enourmous fire-spewing bulk.

Once more a psychic message pulsed out from the Changer of the Ways, this time tuned to the minds of the Thrashians, capable of rending their sanity in twain, even detonating the heads of the weak-willed.

Only a fool stands against Change itself. Submit to Tzeentch and you will be blessed by his mercy.

Unified Sith

07-12-2005, 20:40

"An enemy group has just jumped, madam."

"Hmm." Admiral Keldalri thought. They'll probably try to hit the sterns. Let's not let them. "The Immobilizers will begin firing once they revert, try to aim for reactors. Have Group Eight come about one eighty degrees to assist them."

"Aye, ma'am."

One of the interesting things about Immobilizers, besides the fact that all the cannons are ion cannons is that it was designed so that the main turrets would be able to attack rearguard enemies as well as the ones attacking from the front. And so once the enemy reverted behind them, massive slashes of red ion beams lanced out at the enemies. In other words, the main turrets' weapons are not blue bolts of disabling energy, but red sweeper ion beams with a 45 second duration each (OOC: For how they damage, see here (http://forums.jolt.co.uk/showpost.php?p=9895814&postcount=19). Suffice is to say that what is on may shut off and what is shut off may turn on by reason of the ship attacked turning into a giant electric current). They're also good for attacking and disabling fighters. Of course, they'll have to reload for three minutes, but that's what Group Eight is for.

Meanwhile, Group Eight assisted the Immobilizers with their usual weapons, although a couple of slow Star Destroyers were caught by the enemy assault.

Thrashia

07-12-2005, 20:55

Parlim

07-12-2005, 21:03

Thrashia

07-12-2005, 21:13

Thus far Schwartz had been weary of sending his fleets into ship-to-ship combat. The Death Star and some ships were finally coming through the astroid field, and yet Schwartz still did not order the advance. He knew that he had the equal number of ships under his direct command, and with Alabar's they could overwhelm them, and with their allies...but still the Immbolizer ships were doing horrid damage to the group of cruisers that Alabar had first sent out.

He had to do something though. "All remaining Crusader station fighters...launch and attack." He had called for one of his good cards. The four Crusader stations which had thus far remained imobile and unobtrusive suddenly belched forth some 30,000 speeding balls of death, the small AI programmed droid fighters.

The massive clouds of, properly named Wasp-class fighters, moved and began moving into the enemy fleet and firing and concentrating on ships and fighters en masse.

The Crusader Stations themselve began bringing their own formidible heavy batteries to bear, sending salvo after salvo of heavy turbo laser fire into the enemy fleet. They took care to aim at the larger Khurgan ships.

Unified Sith

07-12-2005, 21:16

"Admiral, group Falcon is completely gone!" shouted a comm officer, he turned and faced Admiral Konner. "They're gone."

Konner nodded. "Bring all ships closer into the Star Destroyers, try avoiding that ion cannon fire. All remaining fighters are to launch. If a captain has to, smash their ships into the nearest enemy ship!"

"Yes sir!"

23 cruisers were down thus far.
Group Eight, a fifty-Star Destroyer task force for the war, moved to intercept the remaining enemies and bombarded them with punishing broadsides of turbolaser cannons while TIE Avenger fighters roared out to intercept the enemy fighters. Three Star Destroyers went down under concentrated bombardment.

The three Immobilizers detached to Group 8 continued to lash out with their normal blue ion cannons and the main red beamcannons as they staggered fire so that each cannon can reload while the others are firing.

Alabar turned over the idea in his once more, then he decided on it. He had decided to steal the idea from the enemy. "Have the Immortal go to point five-three alpha," said Alabar, the comms relayed the command.

The Super Star Destroyer moved to the designated spot, Captain Filgaaris wondering why the Admiral had put him there. Alabar's orders soon came. "You'll notice Captain, you are the closest you can come to the mine fields in order to stay away from them, but at the same time they are in reach of your tractor beams. I will provide you with a code to temporily deactivate one of them, then take it, launch it at the enemy, and have it turn to normal function and hopefully crash into any enemy close by."

Filgaaris nodded and his 40 odd tractor beam crews went to work. Within the next few minutes of work several hundred mines were moving through space at high speeds headed right for the enemy.
"Ma'am. Objects heading towards us at high speed." A clone intoned.

"Move the asteroids to intercept them." The Admiral ordered. Asteroids were moved and flung into the path of the incoming mines, athough a few Star Destroyers' shields flared brightly when mines went through and detonated upon them.

Soon, the bulk of the fleet was nearing the exit of the asteroid fields...

Godular

07-12-2005, 21:19

The single Godulan Mako watched the budding battlezone with a cautious eye. It was doing everything it could to prevent itself from being noticed, and simply waited for the Death Star to make the most important mistake of its existence.

Unified Sith

07-12-2005, 21:25

Reaching the foremost lines, the three Parlimian ships took up defensive position right in the center (in hopes that the Death Star and the other gravity-projecting ships would have more trouble moving something so much larger than the standard Star Destroyer), turning to their sides so that all of their main guns could fire upon the approaching enemy.

The Lonestars moved in to cover the Republic, using their batteries to knock out asteroids and trying to keep enemy cruisers from doing damage to the massive flagship. The Republic didn't bother with the small ships, instead concentrating the bulk of its fire upon the Death Star, while its light cannons zeroed in and shredded fighters. The docking bays were ablaze with activity, pilots preparing to launch their various craft into the battle.

Ion cannon blasts thudded against the shields, causing them to lose power momentarily, then repower as they adjusted frequencies to compensate for the power drain. Although this tactic would hold the shields for now, it was uncertain how long it could prove effective.
The attacks of the enemy caused pretty lights to flare all over the Death Star, but these are planetary-grade shields and will take a long while to wear down.

In return...

"Death Star cannons, concentrate firepower on those enemies. Task Force Paralysis, move to intercept." Admiral Keldalri ordered. The Immobilizer task force directly attached to the Death Star itself opened fire with their main beamcannons (OOC: don't forget, 45 seconds of continuous-beam, staggered disabling fire) while sundering them with the regular blue ion cannons. The Death Star itself smashed the enemy force with thousands upon thousands of turbolasers, missiles and random asteroids revolving around the Death Star like mini-moons.

Thrashia

07-12-2005, 21:27

Major-Admiral Viersan smiled. Finally his entire 9th fleet was assembled. They were more than 40 lightyears away from the current battle, at the rallying point that Viersan had picked out. He knew that the home fleets could handle the oncoming hordes until he arrived.

He read over the report that Alabar had sent him. He nodded. He now had a plan. "Captain Falkir, is my fleet ready?" he asked. The captain, standing nearby, nodded. "Yes sir."

"Then set a course, red alert for exit, for 6-c delta," said Viersan. The captain nodded and had the order relayed to the entire fleet. The mass of 430 Star Destroyers, 180 Praetorian Cruisers, and the 5 Super Star Destroyer's, including Viersan's own flagship Dark Lance smashed into hyperspace.

Alabar cursed when he saw his diversion with the mines wasn't working. "Ow well...it was a pathetic effort anyway. Captain! I want all Star Destroyers from the 2nd fleet to move out from their current positions and go over and join Admiral Schwartz's command.

The captain nodded, and relayed the command. A 104 Star Destroyers moved away from the Mouth and headed to the center of the system where the Epion was.

The droid fighters had thus far suffered some 3,000 odd causualties, but still they never stopped their savagery. General Xavier, commanding them from his master command panel, ordered several hundred to make kamikazi attack runs and slam en masse into the large Immobilizer ships, singling them out from the rest by respective power signitures.

Thrashia

07-12-2005, 21:33

Alabar knew it was his only chance now. With the Immaculate now pointed at a trajectory along the path of the Death Star, it was the only thing he could think to do.

"I want full power sent to the axle-super laser. Power up, aim, and fire at the Death Star."

"But-"

"Do it, I know we'll loose temporary power, but our reactors will hold."

"Yes sir," said Captain Dorna. He nodded to a special command crew. For several minutes nothing happened as the Immaculate simply powered up. Schwartz's Comm Scan detected its rise and even tried sending a transmission stop Alabar, but he was too late.

The great green beam of super high powered energy lanced from the Sovereign-class Super Star Destroyer signalling the third time it had ever been fired under Thrashian command. Without even worrying about what was in the way Alabar had fired the weapon. It passed too close to several cruisers, causing their shields to over-load from the surge and collapse, then to be damaged from enemy turbolaser fire.

But it smashed into the side of the behemouth sphere anyway....or so everyone thought.

(ooc: how big is the DS, in diameter?)

Mini Miehm

07-12-2005, 21:35

Fuck!!! The Godulans are using that damn shield again!!!

"Do not fire the Yamato Cannon, whatever you do, lasers, KEWs, PDCs and Hellbores only, weapons free, fire on enemy ships as they bear. Tell the Arbiters to make ready for Heavy Metal."

The hundred odd battlecruisers were outclassed in this kind of fight, but they had, in total, more throw weight in missiles than the rest of the ships combined, meaning that they had to have them around for APOLLO to work properly, and the approximately 90 thousand missile that the combined fleet could throw would be enough to shatter any squadron they might target.

While the Podlayers rolled their patterns, Arbiters charged their Recall Generators, soon enough there would be quite the surprise for the enemy fleets...

Godular

07-12-2005, 21:39

OOC: THRASHIA- The Voidshield Is Blanket Effect! That's why the Godulans sent the message 'It is imperative that you do not use High-Yield Direct Fire weapons.' The Voidshield can't discriminate between friend and foe.

Khurgan

07-12-2005, 21:39

Helion watched impassively as asteroids surrounding his armada detonated violently, destroyed by the turbolaser barrages from the Crusaders. Some blasts avoided the asteroids, and those that were not devoured by the warp fields or dissipated by the void shields slammed into the hulls of many of the Khurganate vessels, scarring the thick armor and flash-frying servitors near the impacts. A pair of the gargantuan cruisers began to drift, their engines damaged by the barrage.

Reaching out with his mind, the Hand of Change cast out across the battlefield, carressing minds of his enemies, crushing some and plucking thoughts from others. His knowledge of the battlefield was complete, he knew all. And one of these vessels is unlike the others...

Again, a pulse burst out from the Changer of the Ways, mental commands pouring into the minds of the Tzaanlords aboard their vessels. Chains rattled as lance batteries were hoisted to new firing positions and massive torpedoes were loaded into their tubes. Turbines hummed as teleporter arrays came to life, the suicidal Clan Riders and their Devil Unicorn mounts prepared to fight and die aboard enemy vessels. With a massive flash of fire and light, the combined weaponry of half his fleet fired, all directed at a single ship: the Godulan Mako.

Godular

07-12-2005, 21:42

The Mako and its escort hunkered down behind the moon, letting the massive planetoid take the heat until the Khurgan vessels themselves got vaped for distracting themselves just to take out a single enemy vessel.

Thrashia

07-12-2005, 21:51

Alabar suddenly wished he hadn't been so stupid. The beam which had thus far been travelling toward the death star suddenly seemed to hit a wall. For a moment it halted then it came back to the crews horror. Alabar stood up. "Quick launch all excape pods, we can get out in ti-"

The brilliant explosion of the Immaculate was tremendous. Several nearby cruisers had to reinforce their shields for safety.

Grand Admiral Schwartz sat down in his chair heavily. He watched a small screen which played the explosion upon it. He couldn't believe that the idiot had forgotten the damned shield.

A comms officer coughed nearby. He bent over. "Sir, the Emperor says you are now in full command. All fleets have been asigned to your command."

Godular

07-12-2005, 21:57

OOC: Lemme alter the circumstances a bit.

"Oh no... oh no no no... I TOLD THEM NOT TO!"

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The Superlaser blast traveled a small number of kilometers before meeting a strange form of dark hole in space itself. The beam went in, and a massive shaft of light and radiation surged out back at the Thrashian vessel, bathing it in exotic particles as deadly as any blaster. As the radiation struck the Thrashian vessel, shields drained with surprising speed, but not even this could have prepared them for what they saw next:

A massive region of space that seemed like reality itself was ripping itself apart, and it was expanding directly towards the Thrashian vessel. Within a matter of seconds, the colossal shatterspace anomaly would be upon the vessel, ripping it to shreds without mercy or concern...

Thrashia

07-12-2005, 21:58

Thrashia

07-12-2005, 21:59

A massive region of space that seemed like reality itself was ripping itself apart, and it was expanding directly towards the Thrashian vessel. Within a matter of seconds, the colossal shatterspace anomaly would be upon the vessel, ripping it to shreds without mercy or concern...

OOC: its already been blown up to pieces....

Godular

07-12-2005, 22:02

OOC: Yes, I know. Thing is, that ricochet bit isn't how the Voidshield works. I was detailing what the exact effect was.

Thrashia

07-12-2005, 22:04

OOC: oooh, ok. This is my last post for the night. Khurgan, CW, I ask that if you could, simply respond to the attacks I've made in the posts above, then counter attacks, but stop there. And you can of course respond to my Allies attacks, but until I'm back in the morning I would appreciate it if you didn't do anything that would force me to halt things in time, and go back and respond. know what I mean? anyway, great rp'ing so far. Seeya in the morning.

Parlim

07-12-2005, 22:15

The concentrated fire of the Death Star and it's escorts vaporised the Republic's primary shielding almost instantly, and a secondary shield flew up a few moments later, but not quick enough to prevent the stream of weapons fire from punching through the ablative armor (OoC: Shamelessly stolen from Star Trek, this version of Ablative armor is like a gloss over the primary armor. When struck by energy weapons it spreads the shock over an area, causing part of the ablative armor to evaporate and form a cloud around the vessel that can disrupt targeting for a few moments, depending on how much evaporated) and damage the primary armor of the ship.

The bridge crew peered searchingly out the observation windows, but nothing could be seen. The huge shock sustained by the ablative had caused all of it to evaporate at once, a huge silver cloud forming around the Republic totally obscuring it and parts of its Lonestar escorts from view.

“Sir,” interjected a weapons officer from his station.

“Aye?” questioned the Admiral, the name on his chest reading “Griffin”.

“The Ablative cloud is huge, not only is it disrupting enemy fire, but ours as well. Targeting sensors can't get anything, we're firing blind.”

At that moment, the ship shook violently once again. Obviously the lack of targeting locks meant little when you had hundreds of guns. The secondary shields groaned audibly and threatened to buckle under the strain, as the main batteries still fired relentlessly, but without accuracy.

“We can't last long against this. Order the Lonestars to cease firing and project their shields around us. Target the last known position of the Immobilizer fleet and give them hell with the main batteries. Prepare Fusion Warheads for launch, and set them to acquire targets only after they have left the cloud.”

“Aye, sir.”

The Lonstars did as ordered, shielding the Republic as best they could against the merciless barrage of fire. Reactors ran hot, fuses burst, and conduits exploded as the shields began to fail and the energy needed to sustain them quickly disappeared.

Light blossomed from a Lonestar as its shield projectors exploded violently, a large mushroom cloud forming on the bow. As ion cannon fire struck it, odd energy pulses similar to lightning surged on the hull. In front of the vessel, a freakish and unstable wormhole formed. The Lonestar drifted helplessly towards it.

Admiral Griffin listened to the commsystem and grew pale. The ion cannon blasts had activated the Lonestar's wormhole drive (OoC: the principle means of long range travel on Parlimian vessels, works by, you guessed it, creating a wormhole).

“They can't have enough power to fuel a long jump, the exit wormhole will be close.”

Sure enough, through a hole in the cloud the exit wormhole was forming. Meters in front of the Death Star's perimeter shields. The six-kilometer Lonestar drifted through, as escape pods and other vessels launched in an attempt to escape. The capital vessel entered the wormhole. It would be mere moments until it appeared at the exit wormhole. The combined crews of the remaining two ships watched and waited, using thrusters and primary engines to distance themselves.

Move:
Republic concentrates fire upon the Immobilizers, crippled Lonestar accidentally opens workhole in front of Death Star. Republic and escort attempts to distance themselves.

Kendari

07-12-2005, 22:27

The Fisherman emerged from a portal some distance from the battle, ran a brief scan, and took off through a new one. It was replaced by the gleaming silver bulk of a Kendaryn Drone Control Platform, escorted by two more ordinary interceptors and a pair of destroyers. It wasn't much, but it was all the king could send on such short notice.

Darts began streaming out of the DCP and surging into battle before the portal had even finished closing. In all, there were 5,000 of the new heavy combat drones, along with 2,000 cannon-armed light combat drones, intended for use against fighters. The DCP didn't waste its forces on the Death Star, sending them instead against Imperial vessels that they had a chance of damaging. The other four vessels waited near it, prepared to defend it against any attacker.

OOC: I'd have sent more, but I'm not going to be posting frequently for a while because of finals and such. This is basically a token force to have some Kendaryn involvement. Feel free to destroy them, although the interceptors can take a fair amount before their shields give out. Darts are very fast and agile, and lightly shielded; they hold quite a lot of energy, and should at least put a few scratches in something. If one is shot down, all remaining energy is released in a fairly concentrated burst, in the direction of the damaged area.

Unified Sith

07-12-2005, 23:11

The remaining cruisers that the now dead Grand Admiral had sent out to push into the rear of the enemy fleet were now gone. Along with Admiral Konner, btu not before the hot-rod admiral had forced his ship into a hyper jump that took it strait into the face of the lead capitol ship of the Khurgan forces.

OOC: I wanted to have a character die, so I thought of a fashionable way. And it would please CW to see Alabar finally die no doubt.
So, there's a Godulan somewhere. Thanks for the warning! The Admiral smirked. "Have our allies search for the Godulan ship and take it out. For now, attack everything in sight with the turbolaser cannons."

"Aye, ma'am."

Admiral Viersan's fleet came out of hyperspace less than 200 kilometers from the rear of the enemy fleet. He smiled as he noticed no enemy ships were anywhere near him.

"Congratulations Admiral, we have surprise," said Captain Falkir. He smiled down at Viersan.

"Yes, now. I want the full fleet to attack! NOW!"

"yes sir!"

"At the same time, send a message to Admiral Schwartz aboard the Epion, we will need support from his end."

"Yes sir," said Falkir. He rushed to obey the orders.

The 9th Fleet, the cream of the Thrashian Imperial Fleet cruised quickly into the rear positions of the enemy. Each and every ship was firing everything it had, according to orders, fighters from every ship launched numbering in the tens of thousands as massive amounts of Tie fighters, tie advnaced fighters, and Tie phantom's launched. It was the biggest asault yet in Thrashian history.

All the Super Star Destroyers (5) concentrated their fire power on the huge Khurgan flagship.
"Well, well, let us help our allies. Missile teams, load singularity torpedoes and fire at the newcomer enemy!" Admiral Keldalri ordered.

The Death Star, though denied of its main cannon, then began sending volleys of singularity torpedoes at the 9th Fleet, disguised as normals until they get close. Even if they detonated via getting hit, the momentum of the singularities will still carry them towards the enemy fleet.

Move:
Republic concentrates fire upon the Immobilizers, crippled Lonestar accidentally opens workhole in front of Death Star. Republic and escort attempts to distance themselves.
The crippled Lonestar smashed violently into the shields, bringing them down a good eight percent. In angry reply, the Death Star continued pounding the other two ships with its massive turbolaser barrage.

An Immobilizer was heavily damaged and fell back to recover its shields while the other four concentrated ion cannon fire on the Republic, randomly sending red beams to increase the chances of disabling it.

The Fisherman emerged from a portal some distance from the battle, ran a brief scan, and took off through a new one. It was replaced by the gleaming silver bulk of a Kendaryn Drone Control Platform, escorted by two more ordinary interceptors and a pair of destroyers. It wasn't much, but it was all the king could send on such short notice.

Darts began streaming out of the DCP and surging into battle before the portal had even finished closing. In all, there were 5,000 of the new heavy combat drones, along with 2,000 cannon-armed light combat drones, intended for use against fighters. The DCP didn't waste its forces on the Death Star, sending them instead against Imperial vessels that they had a chance of damaging. The other four vessels waited near it, prepared to defend it against any attacker.
Moving to intercept was the ISD Basilisk and its cohorts, blasting away at the enemy with turbolasers while a detachment of TIE wings were sent to remove the combat drones from the battlefield. Fire was traded between the ships, just one tiny battle in the middle of the brutal brawl over Thrashia.

OOC: I'd have sent more, but I'm not going to be posting frequently for a while because of finals and such. This is basically a token force to have some Kendaryn involvement. Feel free to destroy them, although the interceptors can take a fair amount before their shields give out. Darts are very fast and agile, and lightly shielded; they hold quite a lot of energy, and should at least put a few scratches in something. If one is shot down, all remaining energy is released in a fairly concentrated burst, in the direction of the damaged area.
OOC: Cool.

Mini Miehm

07-12-2005, 23:31

Fuck again!!! Now they have to knw about the Godulans shield... Well, only one solution for that...

"Open fire, all KEW launchers, Hellbores, and missile launchers. Send the fighters to deal with any enemy fighter wings, make sure the Arbiters are ready for Heavy Metal, and send us in. Don't deploy against the Death Star, only target it with the KEWs, put everything else against a single enemy Star Destroyer at a time, fire until it's destroyed, then move on to the next target."

In almost perfect unison, 852 Kinetic Energy Weapons leapt away from the massed fleet, directly towards the Death Star, reaching a final velocity of nearly .6c. While the KEWs reloaded, every Burst laser in the fleet trained on a single SD, followed by the Gunships hellbores and missile launchers, they too fired in near perfect unison.

Kendari

07-12-2005, 23:42

Shields shuddered under the turbolaser attack, and a several projectors went out, but the shields stayed up... for now. The DCP moved back, staying behind the other four ships, and sent drones soaring toward the attackers from all directions. Light combat drones and the smaller of the ships' cannons targeted TIE fighters; missiles and darts, backed by front-mounted Type IV cannons, blasted away at the larger vessels. Both destroyers moved away from their allies, not wanting to damage friendly vessels when they were destroyed - it was clear that neither would last more than a few more seconds in this mismatched battle.

Godular

07-12-2005, 23:42

The Commander was thumping the floor of the holocommand chamber in fury at Alabar's foolishness. Not only had he gone and gotten himself killed, but now the enemy would know for certain that there was a Godulan craft in-system and would start looking for it.

The Khurganate forces had turned their attention in an attempt to destroy the Mako outride, but the Mako was too far removed from the battle. The Mako had plenty of time to duck behind the planet. And now the Khurganate vessels were paying for the folly of their distraction.

But now there would be more effort in trying to locate the Mako. Already he could see fighter squadrons roaming about in an attempt to figure out the Godulans' location. If they were spotted, the Godulans would be able to hold, for a while, but if necessary, the Mako could move away with a speed that would give even the TIE fighters a hard time just keeping up.

Starenell

08-12-2005, 00:03

Sabrier sent his regiment into battle against the enemy fighters, with an exception. His Blade Wing stayed back, looking for a better job. In the other wings, the Jagatai fighters engaged first with their superior speed, while the Sabutai gave support and engaged larger threats. Lasers flew through the air.

No endorse

08-12-2005, 00:18

At first there was nothing. It was blank space, pristine and un-spoiled by the hells of war. It was like any other patch of space, a clean slate in time.

Then the war machines came.

It was an intense flash of energy, a blast as if the very fabric of that space was being incinerated. And indeed it was.

A flotilla of craft emerged from the deep, their engines screaming. Energy was still streaming off them from their long voyage. One between two galaxies. It was a trip that would have taken the entire lifetime of civilization at sub-light speeds, yet the advent of the jump drive made this transition a common sight.

A line of Aardvark class cruisers powered at the front, a trio capable of shreding a mere star destroyer like rabid wolves. In their midst, Wasp and Hornet class frigates skimmed like things possessed, glinting in the harsh light of the distant battle.

And at the middle of this formation was an impressive sight. Five giant Ajudicator class dreadnoughts heaved in space, accompanied by three Praemesus class cruisers, a well-used purchase from the Eshirian Soverignty. Ten of the Soverignty's ultralight carriers were also present, shoring up the frigate screens and ready to jump at any time.

Admiral Wilham Stryde was in his element. He moved about the fleet commanding like an absolutist. "Right flank, prepare for fire from that patch of enemies there, Left standby to leapfrog. I want a bore formation yesterday!"

In the midst of all of this chaos, a single ultra-encrypted signal was sent to the GFFA.
We have come to help all GFFA troops in the area. Let's burn some carbon and kick some tail! Send us what profiles you want us to take, or we'll just go with the flow!

ooc: info:
5 Ajudicator class dreadnoughts (EDIT: linkdorsal (http://i11.photobucket.com/albums/a161/anomaly149/the%20small%20and%20the%20ugly/dreadnoughtmodel3armed2above.jpg), linkventral (http://i11.photobucket.com/albums/a161/anomaly149/the%20small%20and%20the%20ugly/dreadnoughtmodel3armed2below.jpg). There are 28 PDGs, 3 medium, 2 torp boxes, and 3 main weapons. Yes it looks a little underarmed. Every weapon has a larger power feed that way.)
3 Praemesus battle carriers-Eshirian bought(I assume the two axials on these babies are off-limits due to that shield?)
10 ultra-light escourt carriers-Eshirian bought
25 Aardvark cruisers
60 Hornet frigates
20 Wasp frigates (like the Hornet, but are more dedicated anti-fighter platforms)

strike craft: (quite a few, #s don't matter, story does)
Snub fighters, Spade bombers, Phoenix Gunships (linky (http://forums.jolt.co.uk/showthread.php?t=449905))

should we pause for now and let Thrash return?

Kyanges

08-12-2005, 01:11

"We've got freakin asteroids, sir!" Shouted a very annoyed tactical officer aboard the ESV Preamus.

Te'kel looked upon the battle with a detached stare. Only when he heard of the...creative...opening moves of the US fleets did he show any emotion. "*sigh*, Okaayyy... Set Lashers to auto, and take care of'em. Launch all fighters, and move more ships to guard that Mako. That's one powerful device the Godulans have over there."

"Aye, sir!"

A few Arc destroyers began to make moves out towards the lone Mako, setting their energy signatures to match Thrashian vessels, and bolstered the few Shades already standing guard.

Te'kel watched as the battle continued to play out, issuing orders as soon as he deemed them necessary. His only disappointment were that the now useless Seige cannons onboard his Preamesus Battlecarriers could not be fired. {There's always the next best thing...} he thought.

"Spread out the fleet, and fire missiles."

At once, litteral cloud after cloud of "Sprite" missiles were thrown from their rep-tubes and flung towards the US vessels. In their sights was the Death Star in particular. Each Sprite missile was less than a meter long, and shielded to a limited extent. The fleet's combined AI managed every missile cloud as if they were a part of one larger body, weaving between ships, and making their way into every gap on the Death Star's surface. Perhaps a few might get lucky...

The rest of the ships in the fleet began to engage the enemy the way they were intended to by design. Preamesus BCs made jumped farther behind the front line, their siege cannons effectively nullified. Shade cruisers cloaked, and made their way behind enemy vessels, then suddenly decloaking, and pouring barrage after ruthless barrage of Multi-phasic energy fire, and Thumper quasar torpedoes upon their engines. Arc Destroyers made their way along side various SDs, and began to engage them head on. A few Glint Assault craft jumped along side US vessels at point blank range, opening the guns on shield generators, hopefully bringing a few down enough to launch Shock Pods filled with ES Marines, and bring the fight right to their feet.

At the same time, Mirai fighters launched torpedoes at bridges, while Sirai and Pirai class fighters began to engage the Ties. All used their jump systems to jump right behind each fighter, launch two missiles, and then pull out.

The SSF had not been mobilized for a major engagement for some time, but despite concerns that they would be a laughing stock on the battlefield, every soldier performed near flawlessly.

Zactarn Prime

08-12-2005, 01:15

Khurgan

08-12-2005, 01:19

Tzaanlord Helion smiled as he watched the Mako scurry behind the moon, scared into hiding by a single barrage. He watched as the missiles slammed into the moon, cyclotronic torpedoes and virus bombs working together to destroy any life or atmosphere that was present there. Now, where were we... Ah, the upstart Thrashian in charge of the 9th fleet.

The five Super Star Destroyers appeared just as Tzeentch had revealed, their turbolaser batteries slashing across the Changer of the Ways. Warp fields bellowed flame as the portals interposed themselves between the hull and the largest concentrations of fire, but still bolts penetrated the gauntlet, smashing through the void shields and rending the hull. Atmosphere gushed out of decks, sending servitors flying into the cold darkness of space. A pair of batteries detonated, their explosion vented outwards into space, absorbed by the hungry maws of the Warp portals. The ship convulsed, its death spasms a prayer to the Lord of Chaos.

Oh Great Manipulator, Changer of the Ways, Lord of Mutation, He Who Knows All, Master of the Winds of Magic, look with favor upon the sacrifice of your faithful servant! May its burning hulk please You as it Changes, may the souls of its crew nourish You and Your Daemonic servants! Grant Your servant the knowledge of Your holy power! Tzeentch, we praise Your holy name!

The ship convulsed again, disintegrating in multi-colored flames. Portions of its superstructure dissolved into pure energy, the ship collapsing in upon itself. Slowly, the behemoth vessel shrunk into a miniscule orb of blinding light...

With a sudden burst, the orb exploded, two great feathery wings of fire sweeping forth from its center. The red-burning core strobed, two great eyes looking forth into this universe, a phoenix risen from the ashes of the Changer of the Ways.

The Tzaanlords looked on in awe at the majesty of their God incarnate upon the Materium, great wings of mutating fire sweeping through space dozens of kilometers around. The avian fireball surely was a sign of favor from Tzeentch himself! With renewed vigor, the fleet poured fire into the super star destroyers. A maelstrom of incandescent bolts of pure energy poured forth from the fleet's lance batteries, battering sheilds and rending hulls. Gargantuan torpedoes sailed forth, their massive shells protecting them as they glided swiftly through space. Within the halls of the SSDs, portals opened, letting the minions of Change pour forth from the Immaterium to bring havoc to their enemies. A hundred thousand fighters danced in space, bolts of energy smashing and tearing, a dance of death with the pilots of the doomed Thrashian TIEs.

Hail the Great Changer Incarnate! Embrace His awesome Majesty, the wisdom of His Ineffable mutation! Nothing can stand before Him and remain unaltered!

Unified Sith

08-12-2005, 02:59

I order to aid. 2 VSSD's have been sent in with fleets of A-9 Vigilance Fighters. They each carry a fleet of TIE MK Vampire and TIE Interceptors. The ships came through the front of the large system to aid the Imperial Cause, Thrashia shall die.
OOC: *cough* Youngling, please ensure that you produce something a little better than that. And don't use the superlasers, or else you'll get it bounced right back to you.

At once, litteral cloud after cloud of "Sprite" missiles were thrown from their rep-tubes and flung towards the US vessels. In their sights was the Death Star in particular. Each Sprite missile was less than a meter long, and shielded to a limited extent. The fleet's combined AI managed every missile cloud as if they were a part of one larger body, weaving between ships, and making their way into every gap on the Death Star's surface. Perhaps a few might get lucky...
The Death Star's shields was nicely peppered with missile fire, doing relatively little damage compared to several Star Destroyers that were sundered by enemy fire.

The rest of the ships in the fleet began to engage the enemy the way they were intended to by design. Preamesus BCs made jumped farther behind the front line, their siege cannons effectively nullified. Shade cruisers cloaked, and made their way behind enemy vessels, then suddenly decloaking, and pouring barrage after ruthless barrage of Multi-phasic energy fire, and Thumper quasar torpedoes upon their engines. Arc Destroyers made their way along side various SDs, and began to engage them head on. A few Glint Assault craft jumped along side US vessels at point blank range, opening the guns on shield generators, hopefully bringing a few down enough to launch Shock Pods filled with ES Marines, and bring the fight right to their feet.

At the same time, Mirai fighters launched torpedoes at bridges, while Sirai and Pirai class fighters began to engage the Ties. All used their jump systems to jump right behind each fighter, launch two missiles, and then pull out.
Unfortunately for them, an FTLi field has been placed over the Imperial fleet to prevent such action by the Death Star itself. They would have to attack conventionally. In the meantime, a massive barrage of ion cannon fire from the Immobilizer Star Destroyers concentrated fire on everything not friendly to disable them before the rest of the Star Destroyer squadrons can finish them off with bristling turbolaser broadsides.

In return, however, a few Star Destroyer bridges were taken down by enemy fire, but secondary bridges inside the ship continued the fight in the name of the Empire.

No Endorse:
A volley of singularity missiles were sent their way by the Death Star, intent on swatting the enemies down quickly.

Fuck again!!! Now they have to know about the Godulans shield... Well, only one solution for that...

"Open fire, all KEW launchers, Hellbores, and missile launchers. Send the fighters to deal with any enemy fighter wings, make sure the Arbiters are ready for Heavy Metal, and send us in. Don't deploy against the Death Star, only target it with the KEWs, put everything else against a single enemy Star Destroyer at a time, fire until it's destroyed, then move on to the next target."

In almost perfect unison, 852 Kinetic Energy Weapons leapt away from the massed fleet, directly towards the Death Star, reaching a final velocity of nearly .6c. While the KEWs reloaded, every Burst laser in the fleet trained on a single SD, followed by the Gunships hellbores and missile launchers, they too fired in near perfect unison.
"Madam, mass drivers detected!"

"You know what to do! Use the asteroids to cover the Death Star, then follow up with tractor beams to further slow them down!" The Admiral Keldalri ordered.

Hundreds of asteroids were thrown in the way of the KE weapons, followed up by tractor beams to grab those mass drivers who passed through the clouds of asteroids and throw them back to the enemy. Those that still went through smacked into the shields and disintergrated into space dust, a far smaller number than came in.

Meanwhile, a large part of the fleet moved to intercept the MM forces, led by twenty of the vaunted Immoblizer Star Destroyers, who swiftly began shooting the devastating red ion beamcannons at the enemy's KEW emplacements for a sustained 45 seconds before moving in with ordinary ion cannons to finish things off, followed up by turbolasers from the main fleet. Rinse and repeat, ad nauseum. In return, a Star Destroyer was destroyed every minute of barrage or so.

Shields shuddered under the turbolaser attack, and a several projectors went out, but the shields stayed up... for now. The DCP moved back, staying behind the other four ships, and sent drones soaring toward the attackers from all directions. Light combat drones and the smaller of the ships' cannons targeted TIE fighters; missiles and darts, backed by front-mounted Type IV cannons, blasted away at the larger vessels. Both destroyers moved away from their allies, not wanting to damage friendly vessels when they were destroyed - it was clear that neither would last more than a few more seconds in this mismatched battle.
The Basilisk kept up the assault, firing broadside after devastating broadside into the enemy so it can move on to more important foes.

Sabrier sent his regiment into battle against the enemy fighters, with an exception. His Blade Wing stayed back, looking for a better job. In the other wings, the Jagatai fighters engaged first with their superior speed, while the Sabutai gave support and engaged larger threats. Lasers flew through the air.
TIE Avengers moved in to engage the enemy with their massive numbers and good speed, shielding and weapons. They were supported by a Victory-class escort Star Destroyer to ensure that the enemy dies swiftly.

The Humankind Abh

08-12-2005, 03:24

Planet Lulukess:

The great naval yard of Vobayrunay was the home of Star Forces and many of the Abh's shipyards. The Empire was returning back to normal for the most part with many of its commanders returning. Admiral Spoor was still in the hospital though from the battle with Yevon and Admirals Rulef and Mustaf were busy with Ankhmet territories. The problem was that every Admiral was exhausted except for Dusanyu who never grew tired of battle but was already occupied.

Things were beginning to look like everyone would get a well deserved rest however that would not be the case. The nation of Thrashia had come calling for aid from allies. The Abh weren't exactly allies directly but were only fellow members of the GFFA. The Abh fought with a code of honor and no matter how things were related, they would come.

The call went out over the Empire for human and Abh commanders alike to come out of retirement and return to active duty. The majority coming to the call were the royal families. Abriels all of them. The human forces would be commanded by Commander Elbryan Wyndon while Abh forces would be commander by Admiral Abriel Nei Dobrusk Dusanh.

A wide variety of ships from the new Rambird to the Victory Class Destroyer along with its fighter escort.

Admiral Abriel walked to the bridge of his Destroyer and sat down in his command chair. "Communications, get me commander Elbryan aboard his Omega-X Destroyer."

"Yes your Highness."

Commander Elbryan was getting his men squared away. A beeping was going off at the communication panel. "Commander message coming through from HQ."

Elbryan sat down. "On screen."

The screen materialized to reveal the elf looking Abriel with his blue hair and long ears. "Are your men ready commander?"

"Yes your Highness. Our last battle run with these ships was successful so they have become familiar with the systems. How are things on your end?"

"All ships and crew are accounted for Commander. We'll see you in Hyperspace."

The communication was ended and then a broader frequency went out towards the fleet. "All ships enter Hyperspace at this time and prepare to make for Thrashian space. All ships are to maintain communication silence until I give the signal."

Jump Gates opened everywhere as the Abh fleet entered Hyperspace however, one Whitestar class went on full burn through Hyperspace to arrive at the battlefield first. The ship contained a message for the Thrashian forces and would need a reply shortly.

No endorse

08-12-2005, 03:50

No Endorse:
A volley of singularity missiles were sent their way by the Death Star, intent on swatting the enemies down quickly.

"Admiral! Advance scouts report incoming enemy missiles!"
"Why in blazes would he use those when we're still so far away? Good Gods, we're at least several dozen light minutes distant! At least half an hour! Blow them out of the sky and take evasive action."

An intense flurry of beam-cannon fire raked across the incoming weapons, slashing through the cloud. It was something like spraying energy through a pressure hose at times, but quite effective when coordinated by multiple ship-born AIs. Snub-class fighters swarmed, dispatching a plethera of counter-measures against the foe, and gunships fired interceptors in hopes of limiting the damage.

Multiple torpedos did find their marks however, rocking their targets. Three frigates were completly consumed after several hits, and a pair of cruisers' shields started to sputter. However, they managed to hold on just barely. The Dreadnoughts managed to shrug off the incoming fire. As they ceased firing with their main cannons due to proximity, the energy was immediatly re-routed to shield screens.

The craft moved towards the ships of Zactarn Prime, opening up a furious salvo, concentrating on one of the SSDs. It was truely something, the men would reflect if they survived, to see an Ajudicator open fire. It was as if the Gods themselves had descended to the mortal plane to render judgement.

ooc: How does the FTLi work around here? If it's just gravity wells, then it's still possible to go to hyper I believe. I think the only thing that prevents in-gravity jumps is onboard safeties in the jump drives. The safeties are needed because gravity would yank the trajectory off, and at those speeds, a few degrees off would be catastrophic. I don't think that it's actually an effect where the gravity forcefully pulls the ship out of hyper. (If it was, an ungodly ammount of momentum would be transferred to whatever did the yanking)

Also, how much energy is needed to set off the reflecting shield?

Mini Miehm

08-12-2005, 03:56

Hmm, red ion cannon, messy, but bearable, especially on the Wedge...

OOC: CW... Think before you strike... the KEW platforms are my Ships... All you did was bring your ships closer to their destruction...

IC:

"Engage Heavy Metal Phase 1, switch targets to the Immobilzers, and prepare for APOLLO. Gunships are to target the regular SDs with all weapons, Recall all fighters, they are to stay withthe gunships and assist in destroying the SDs. Have the Carriers deploy Interceptors and fire PDCs at max rate, same priorities as the Leviathans. Missile Frigates and all Legends are to target seperate SDs from thoise targeted by the Gunships and fighters. Ok people, lets move, any fire against the ships is to be taken on the wedge if at all possible."

Dozens of turbolaser hits slammed home, but many dozens more were defeated by the interposed sidewalls of the fleet, or wasted themselves on the wedges of the massed Wall of Battle. Dozens of ships were damaged, but they all remained in fighting condition, though batteries were shattered under the onslaught, and armor buckled under their power, but every ship in the fleet remained more or less intact, though how long tht would last was debtable.

Thousands of fighters and gunships turned their concentrated fire on a single SD, they may have lost the firepower of the Capships, but they had gained the firepower of missiles frigates and heavy Genesis Interceptors, led by Foehammer and Genesis Squadron(Remember them CW??? I think the Rogues do at least...), thousands of powerful lasers, missiles and Hellbore bolts slammed towards a single SD.

A single massive ship appeared in the system, called by the transmission of Heavy Metal 1, The Terran Battleglobe hadarrived, blasting out thousands of missiles and energy bolts in the seconds fter its arrival. It drove straight towards the fleet attacking the gathered Terran Task Groups, there was little hope of breaking them, but so long as it remained in the system, it woulddo a great deal of damage with laser warheads and Graser batteries.

Now was the time to strike, the one crippling blow they were likely to get in this fight... "All units, activate APOLLO!" Tractored to the hulls of the ships were thousands of missile pods, capable of throwing nearly two hundred thousand laser warhead missiles in total, now they deployed, acquired targets, and fired, each of the pods held 9 missiles, 8 attack missiles, and one control missile, and the battlecruisers alone had 100 each, 9,000 missile pods, and they all fired into the gathered might of the approaching fleet, before reaching attack range at 35,000 kilometers, and sending lances of X-Ray lasers towards any ship that got in their path.

OOC: I think that's everything, if I missed anything, tell me, ok?

Kyanges

08-12-2005, 04:20

(OOC: Thanks for not making that more embarrassing than it could have been. I completely forgot all about the FTLi fields that everyone has. >_< . I’ll work with what you gave me.)

IC:

"Death Star's shields are still fully operational. All missiles nullified Commander! Almost no effect." exclaimed the tactical officer.

"Well, what did you expect? It's a Death Star." Replied Te'kel.

The officer frowned, "It should have had some effect, but apparently, we're not bringing anything down anything strong enough." He scanned a few messages from the fighters, as they attempted to make their jumps to the Star Destroyers, and enemy TIEs. “Sir, fighters also report that the FTLi fields are still holding them from their escape jumps. They’ve jumped in, but they can’t jump out. They’re all being dragged into conventional dogfights.”

“We expected that…” Te’kel muttered. He thought for a moment, and asked. “What’s the status of our own station?”

“Exas-1 is still undergoing repairs after action in NZ space. It won’t be ready for another day or so.”

The battle looked to be a long one. There were no bigger guns in the inventory. But no Eshirian commander liked a boring slug fest. If things continued the way they were going, it seemed that was exactly what the fight was going to be…

“What about our ships inside the Imperial formations? “What of the Shade cruisers attempts to take out Star Destroyer engines.”

The Tac scanned his readouts…

In the midst of the battle, Mirai fighters continued their torpedo runs against the various SDs, taking extra care to fire from long range, and let their torpedoes do the work of flying in. Thanks to rep-tubes, Additional “Sprite” clouds of millions of missiles continued to pour from all missile turrets. This time, missiles concentrated on enemy fighters, massing almost 20 at a time against every fighter, and always coming from multiple angles. The thousands of Sirai SSFs, and Pirai FAFs began to work in teams. The smaller more nimble Pirai fighters baiting enemy pilots, while cloaked Sirai fighters would launch a surprise attack from in front of the hopefully distracted pilot, using tractor beams to hold the fighter, and then blast it away with impunity from behind.

Arc Destroyers began to move under their targeted Star Destroyers. Each unloading their full complement of 120 quasar detonator equipped torpedo tubes directly at the soft undersides of their victims, aiming for open fighter bays, weak points in shielding, and other attractive targets. In the same way, by flying under the SDs, they would avoid a full broadside, while by unorthodox design, the Arcs would be able to fire in full.

Smaller Glint assault vessels loaded with hundreds of ES Marines began to slam Shock Pods into the hulls of those SDs with their main bridges taken out, in an attempt to take ships from the inside.

The whole fleet began to wedge itself between enemy ships, and slowly pulled further away, trying to drag the Imperial formation apart, and take down ships one on one, where superior Eshirian weapons which were explicitly designed with much more formidable opponents in mind [Phantoms…] should be able to rip any SD to shreds.

While the Eshirian vessels made their moves, the US counter fire was devastating. UL carriers, the most vulnerable ships in the fleet were nearly wiped out. Those not blasted apart limped back towards the Allied “Lines.” Several Arc Destroyers were beginning to show signs of wear as well. Corrollium matter reserves were running low, and thus their PPAD shielding would soon fail, leaving only their conventional energy shields to take the brunt of the assault.

(OOC: Notes: Arcs, and other line ships in my fleet are designed to attack from under, rather than from the side, therefore, most of their more devastating anti-ship weapons are on the top, and bottom.

Each missile is supposed to sap/rip away shields as well, due to the black hole, and following quasar detonation of their main warhead.)

No endorse

08-12-2005, 04:50

http://forums2.jolt.co.uk/showthread.php?t=458076

Anyone who was paying attention to the holonet would get the SNN signal.

The No Endorse craft in the area got a direct tightbeam during the battle. Admiral Stryde was shocked, and it took the impact of an enemy rocket to jar him back to his senses. He was jolted strait into action.

"Communications! Inform the GFFA that Prime Minister Talon suffered a heart attack apon recieving news of this conflict and must resign. As such our involvement may become erratic soon. I can already smell the civil unrest from here.

Shore up that right flank, get those Aardvarks firing at maximum power A-SAP! I want this fleet to essentially dump raw energy at those bastards! Their cowardice has harmed Talon, but they will do no better."

Neo Zeta

08-12-2005, 05:06

OOC: Thrashia i will turn over controle of my ships in this thread over to you. I wont have to much time to keep up with this during finals. This way my ships are put where they are needed and kept in the battle. If you dont want to take controle i will have the Abh do it for me. If you need specs i give them for you asap.

Unified Sith

08-12-2005, 06:02

OOC: Damn, I have a lot of work to do...

"Admiral! Advance scouts report incoming enemy missiles!"
"Why in blazes would he use those when we're still so far away? Good Gods, we're at least several dozen light minutes distant! At least half an hour! Blow them out of the sky and take evasive action."

An intense flurry of beam-cannon fire raked across the incoming weapons, slashing through the cloud. It was something like spraying energy through a pressure hose at times, but quite effective when coordinated by multiple ship-born AIs. Snub-class fighters swarmed, dispatching a plethera of counter-measures against the foe, and gunships fired interceptors in hopes of limiting the damage.

Multiple torpedos did find their marks however, rocking their targets. Three frigates were completly consumed after several hits, and a pair of cruisers' shields started to sputter. However, they managed to hold on just barely. The Dreadnoughts managed to shrug off the incoming fire. As they ceased firing with their main cannons due to proximity, the energy was immediatly re-routed to shield screens.
Unfortunately for the enemy fleet, once they hit a torpedo, the torpedo would detonate, causing a singularity to form. However, the forward momentum of a singularity going at high sublight speeds even after detonation will still cause them to zoom towards the enemy. Not even dreadnoughts would be safe from the yawning grasps of the intense gravity fields.

A detachment of Star Destroyers were sent off to deal with this menace, as well as three Immobilizers to disable the enemy with their red ion beamcannons (OOC: I don't want people to forget that it's 45 seconds per beamcannon then recharge; also good against fighters) and blue cannon broadsides.

ooc: How does the FTLi work around here? If it's just gravity wells, then it's still possible to go to hyper I believe. I think the only thing that prevents in-gravity jumps is onboard safeties in the jump drives. The safeties are needed because gravity would yank the trajectory off, and at those speeds, a few degrees off would be catastrophic. I don't think that it's actually an effect where the gravity forcefully pulls the ship out of hyper. (If it was, an ungodly ammount of momentum would be transferred to whatever did the yanking)
OOC: It's also the stress on the hull of going into hyperspace within a gravity well. It's going to be massive.

Also, how much energy is needed to set off the reflecting shield?
OOC: Any weapon that does similar effects to the superlaser will be reflected and the moron who shot it would be destroyed, see Godular's posts above what happens.

Hmm, red ion cannon, messy, but bearable, especially on the Wedge...

OOC: CW... Think before you strike... the KEW platforms are my Ships... All you did was bring your ships closer to their destruction...
OOC: Fair enough.

IC:

"Engage Heavy Metal Phase 1, switch targets to the Immobilzers, and prepare for APOLLO. Gunships are to target the regular SDs with all weapons, Recall all fighters, they are to stay withthe gunships and assist in destroying the SDs. Have the Carriers deploy Interceptors and fire PDCs at max rate, same priorities as the Leviathans. Missile Frigates and all Legends are to target seperate SDs from thoise targeted by the Gunships and fighters. Ok people, lets move, any fire against the ships is to be taken on the wedge if at all possible."

Dozens of turbolaser hits slammed home, but many dozens more were defeated by the interposed sidewalls of the fleet, or wasted themselves on the wedges of the massed Wall of Battle. Dozens of ships were damaged, but they all remained in fighting condition, though batteries were shattered under the onslaught, and armor buckled under their power, but every ship in the fleet remained more or less intact, though how long tht would last was debtable.

Thousands of fighters and gunships turned their concentrated fire on a single SD, they may have lost the firepower of the Capships, but they had gained the firepower of missiles frigates and heavy Genesis Interceptors, led by Foehammer and Genesis Squadron(Remember them CW??? I think the Rogues do at least...), thousands of powerful lasers, missiles and Hellbore bolts slammed towards a single SD.

A single massive ship appeared in the system, called by the transmission of Heavy Metal 1, The Terran Battleglobe hadarrived, blasting out thousands of missiles and energy bolts in the seconds fter its arrival. It drove straight towards the fleet attacking the gathered Terran Task Groups, there was little hope of breaking them, but so long as it remained in the system, it woulddo a great deal of damage with laser warheads and Graser batteries.

Now was the time to strike, the one crippling blow they were likely to get in this fight... "All units, activate APOLLO!" Tractored to the hulls of the ships were thousands of missile pods, capable of throwing nearly two hundred thousand laser warhead missiles in total, now they deployed, acquired targets, and fired, each of the pods held 9 missiles, 8 attack missiles, and one control missile, and the battlecruisers alone had 100 each, 9,000 missile pods, and they all fired into the gathered might of the approaching fleet, before reaching attack range at 35,000 kilometers, and sending lances of X-Ray lasers towards any ship that got in their path.

OOC: I think that's everything, if I missed anything, tell me, ok?
"Ma'am! Ten ships lost in that opening volley! If this keeps up, we won't be able to handle this foe for long!" A clone intoned quickly.

"Fire a volley of singularity missiles." The Admiral gritted her teeth. "Try and defeat those wedges! Follow up with attacking those...sidewalls!" She had to recall what these foes used. "They're the weaker spots!"

The Death Star added its own considerable firepower to the battle, though with these damned enemies around, it may not be enough to remove them all in any good time.

Kyanges:
The Empire's ships tossed out their own gravitic weaponry at the enemy in a tit-for-tat that may leave both sides swallowed by numerous singularity weapons.

Five good ships and thousands of loyal citizens were destroyed in such a manner. Three more engines were disabled by the enemy fire, and those ships just sat there and fired at everything not Imperial. Nevertheless, the Immobilizers detached to deal with this threat attacked the enemies below and behind them with their beamcannons, hoping to disable the lot of them.

Fighters roared around in mad dogfights, many of them detached from the Death Star itself, so even with the numerous missiles flying around, the enemy still has thousands of TIEs and droid fighters to deal with.

Unified Sith

08-12-2005, 06:12

Smaller Glint assault vessels loaded with hundreds of ES Marines began to slam Shock Pods into the hulls of those SDs with their main bridges taken out, in an attempt to take ships from the inside.
Clonetroopers inside the ships moved to breaching points and fought to remove the enemy marines from their ships with heavy blasters, thermal detonators and other weapons.

Lessir Tsurani

08-12-2005, 06:17

OOC As this is Shivian, I hereby ceed all my fleets characters ect over to Coreworlds.

Dratheria

08-12-2005, 06:27

Mercer's diembodied Ronwe form appeared in front of the leaders of the respective nations, "Greetings and long time no see. I present you all with a choice those who have refugees can send them to these planets." He gestured to a disembodied form behind him of multiple beautiful planets in Limbo. "As such they will be combat free zones and any ship or warrior who attempts to make combat there will be swiftly annihalated. I hope that innocent lives will be spared by this act. Call for the Ronwe and we will transport your refugees and their belongings in an instant. Good day." With this Mercer's Ronwe form appearing as an Angel of Light to some and a Daemon of Darkness to others disappeared.

Godular

08-12-2005, 07:57

"You think we should do anything about that big ball of light with wings, sir? After all, they did shoot at us."

"This is true," The commander said, not reacting to the voice of his first officer as he studied the battlezone. That chaos demon was impressive, but the Godulans had dealt with worse. "Bring up the enhancement listing."

"Aye sir."

A small sub window appeared at the Commander's side... you know what? Screw it, his name is Nolan... and he turned to read scroll through it.

"Axiomatic? Might be amusing... Disjunction? No, can't be certain if that's a magical effect... Sever the Tie would be useful. And lets see... ah ha! Circuitous! That'll keep the others from learning our position."

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Outside the Mako and its escorts, a relatively strange magic circle materialized, with assistance from the Mako's holoprojectors. Line of sight communications were established with the escort cruisers in order to prevent eavesdropping, and the following was communicated:

Target the big winged demon orb with all the torpedos you can fire. Make sure the torpedos go through this circle, and we'll be able to help our allies in more ways than just sitting here on our asses. Prepare to fire on my mark.

the five vessels lined up, ready to fire.

Mark.

The Mako and its escorts opened up with a massive barrage of generalized torpedo ordinance, Godulan Fractal torpedos and whatever the Shade Cruisers could fire. The strange thing about these torpedos though, is that as soon as each torpedo went through the circle, it picked a random direction and began an almost scenic progression throughout the Thrashian system. Doubtless the allied and enemy forces alike would have been curious about a swarm of torpedos roaming seemingly aimlessly about the system. But considering the chaotic state of affairs, it was more likely that the things would just be ignored...

Thrashia

08-12-2005, 08:49

-snip-

-No- The voice seemed to echoe amongst the stars. Filled with a lost power. Time seemed to be reversed almost, as suddenly the SSD that had before been turning into molten flame. A white light sprang from the heavens surrounding the craft, pasing it through a halo of light. Then just as quickly it was as it was before.

Simon stood on the bridge. He had not been out in space for over 20 years. When the Emperor had first kidnapped him and forced him to become a Psyker as a young boy. He had barely survived the attack of Inquisition and enemy psykers when they came to drestroy him and the others, for they feared what the children would become. And now 20 years later, Simon wsa taking out his pinned up anger on with the massive power he wielded.

-No- he called again into the warp, demons who ahd appeared on ships suddenly froze and stared up into space with fear. Halos of light sprang up and destroyed them.

Simon fell to one knee. His efforts starting to drain him. Viersan stood nearby watching him. "You must destroy the Khurgan Admiral," he said feebly.

Viersan nodded.

"I want all of the 9th Fleet, every turbolaser to fire right now at the Khurgan flagship! It goes down NOW!" he called. Captain Falkir nodded. The 9th fleet hadso far lost about a dozen ships, and several hundred fighters. But with accurate ease, all 400 odd vessels aimed and fired with every turbolaser, heavy turbolaser, missile, torpedoe, ion cannon, and even fighters joined in: and all fired strait for the Khurgan flagship.
(Here is the link to the Thread (http://forums.jolt.co.uk/showthread.php?t=382473&highlight=Thrashia) where Simon was created, just so you have proof that I'm not god-modding)

I order to aid. 2 VSSD's have been sent in with fleets of A-9 Vigilance Fighters. They each carry a fleet of TIE MK Vampire and TIE Interceptors. The ships came through the front of the large system to aid the Imperial Cause, Thrashia shall die.

Admiral Veers, newly appointed over the 1st Fleet nearly fell over in a fit of laughter when he saw the small fleet of enemy vessels appear before the Mouth. "Have the two Crusader stations concentrate all fire upon those two large vessels. Launch all Tie fighters," he said from his command chair.

The two massive siege stations brought their heavy turbolasers to bear and started pounding the VSSDs with heavy turbolaser fire.

From the 1st fleet came a wave as nearly 1000 tie fighters came out of the bays of star destroyers and carriers. They split into fighter squadrons and began engaging the Zactern Prime fighters.

Neo Zeta's fighters also took up the fight against the new pressence.

Grand Admiral Schwartz saw that he could no longer hold back the 5th-8th fleets from combat. The Parlimian vessels had put up an impressive fight and were starting to fall back.

"I want all fighters to launch, all fleets, and to go and engage enemy vessels anc concentrate fire on the shields of those Star Destroyers," he called to the comms. "Then have all ships of the 5th-7th Fleets move forward and engage."

"Have all Shadow cruisers concentrate their 'Death's Hand' grand cannons on the Death Star, fire salvo after salvo until its shields are down!"

It was like watching the rise of a horde of wasps. As if the plagues of Egypt had become present in space. Fighters from all over the enter fleets of Thrashia launched, there was over 200,000+ of them. Ties, Advanced Ties, Phantoms, Defenders, Interceptors, Wasp fighters, and even the Arrow fighters of the Thrashian PDF.

Then over 500 vessels of the combined might of the 5th-8th fleets surged forward.

Some 50 Shadow cruisers took careful aim with their large powerful ion cannons (deaths hand cannon) and fired salvo after salvo of unstopped fire at the Death Star.

ooc: The Death's Hand cannon is equal to the power of a planetary ground ion cannon (like in the Empire Strike Back) and there are six on each Shadow in huge batteries. If one blast from that can power down an SD, then over a couple hundred should do murder to those shields.

Unified Sith

08-12-2005, 09:00

Wait a minute. We're going about this wrong. The Admiral thought. We must eliminate the major enemy forces. That means...

"Death Star. All stop. Fleet units, reform with Imperial's Bane formation!" Admiral Keldalri ordered. "Continue using tractor beams to hold the asteroids, but do not throw them!"

This was the order to form a driving wedge, spearheading into any enemy force with complete intimidation. The Star Destroyers will be tight enough to give each other fire support but also maintain a fairly loose formation at the same time so that area-effect weapons won't be too harsh. All the fighters will be recalled from their random spots to support the capital ships. Half the entire fighter force will defend the capships. The other half will attack in groups of a hundred each on one ship. And the Death Star will be the rearguard of the driving wedge to prevent further assaults on the rears of the ISDs.

Under assault by enemy forces, the fleet took several moments to execute the order as the captains moved their ships around.

OOC: Formation is as follows - O>>

"Now. Draw all power from the superlaser into the turbolasers. Boost power from the main reactor to the shields." The Admiral ordered again. "And charge. Maintain formation at all times until further notice. Fire Alpha Strikes whenever you get the chance!"

The fleet then accelerated, picked up speed. Every single Imperial and Immobilizer Star Destroyer concentrated fire on the nearest enemy ships. The driving wedge looked like a Super Star Destroyer, writ large.

And they charged forth, ships, Death Star, asteroids. Stopping for nothing, not even for ramming. For there is nothing, nothing else to do...but succeed. Achieve victory at all costs...

Chronosia

08-12-2005, 10:55

The fabric of reality rent as though it were a cloth strained to breaking; flesh, taut and torn over the putresence that lay below in all it's enfeebling glory. The power of the Warp; Limitless. And now it disgorged a mighty force; a terrible force that bore the same ruthlessness; the same treacherous unpredictability as the tides of the Warp. A force of Chaos; Chronosians.

The Main bulk seemed to hover between Empire and Rebel forces; seeming to turn, momentarily to behold the glory of the Death Star and the limitless fury of War. Upon the deck, Lucian stood, and raised his hands as though playing a mighty instrument, composing the symphony he saw before him. Every ship; every weapon; every man...Was his instrument.

Yet curiously, this force a thousand strong, was not the only Chronosian vessel that came amongst them; some; ancient, archaic and mighty weapons of war; stood amongst the Rebel fleets; their considerable weapons opening now with Planet killing fury, as they plunged against those they had sworn to be 'Allies' to; unleashing their mighty superweapons against the fullest part of them; well aware of the consequences of these actions; while the mainstay of the fleet; now moving swiftly towards the Empire's fleets; let loose a barrage of missles and mines the way they had came; a vast deluge of metallic death upon their enemies; warp cannons howling in a screaming blow against their foes.

The void was stained once again with the machinations of the warp; as the second Imperial Battlefleet tore into being around the Death star, another thousand strong; the vast vessel at it's head identifiable as the Ecstacy of Slaanesh; upon it's deck, stood Remiel; directing the war like Ares from his throne; weapons howling as fighters poured in the thousands forth in attack and chaotic destruction; weapons roared, bombs exploded; pilots plunged headfirst against the enemy; detonating their bombs even as the spiked prows of their ships sought the supple flesh of their prey-vessels.

The Imperium had roused itself half-way to war for a single purpose...To destroy the Thrashian rebellion and take it's true place as Leader; as Lord and Master...For one way or another, Nightshade would be robbed of her power; and to the victor would go the spoils...No upstart with dreams of Triumvirate would stand against that.

Thrashia

08-12-2005, 12:42

OOC: Wait...now I'm confused. Chron, your attacking both me and CW?

Chronosia

08-12-2005, 13:21

OOC: Nope; my fleet is moved towards CW; joined by a second fleet around CW; while my few ships interspersed in your fleets have just played the hand of the Godulan Voidshields :)

In short, for now, I am attacking you.

Thrashia

08-12-2005, 13:36

OOC: I thought CW had a FTLi placed around his fleet by the Death Star, so how did your fleet appear? Or does the inhibiter not affect your fleet since you travel through the warp?

Starenell

08-12-2005, 13:41

Parlim

08-12-2005, 17:08

The Republic and its Lonestar escort cleared the Death Star's range with little time to spare, the ablative cloud having completely dispersed. The Republic retook a defensive position, turning to bare its undamaged port side to the enemy, diverting at availible power to the port broadside shieldings. The Lonestar mimicked this, dropping the bubble shield around the two ships and concentrating on itself.

Once again the mighty guns of the Federation opened fire, focusing everything upon the lead Star Destroyer of the wedge. Missles tubes errupted with smoke and steam as huge Fusion Missiles left them and rocketed at high sublight speeds towards the lead SS.

Meanwhile, the Lonestar had a plan of its own. Employing the Imperial tactic used earlier, it pulled the largest meteors one by one from the belt with tractor beams and flung them towards the enemy fleet and then blasting them with weapons fire, peppering the system with red-hot meteoroids moving towards the Imperials at tremendous speeds, Fusion missiles dodging in between the space rocks.

The Parlimian ships repeated the maneuver over and over, launching missiles and rocks alike, punctuated by the extremely heavy main guns of the mighty Republic.

Thrashia

08-12-2005, 17:38

By now Admiral Viersan had pierced into the heart of the Imperial Forces. His fleet had made a large wedge into it, and was slowly beating it and the khurgan fleet into submission from the rear. When the Chronosian forces arrived and began firing at Thrashian vessels he cursed.

"Damn those Chaotic bastards!" He yelled at no one in particular. He had lost about 23 Star Destroyers thus far, along with about twice that in Praetorian cruisers, even one of his SSDs was heavily damaged. But he still had another 400 Star Destroyers and about 60 cruisers left, along with the four SSDs to fight, and fight they did. He kept over a hundred star destroyers firing at the flagship of the Khurgan fleet, unceasing, wanting to take it down first, knowing that once it was down he would have his work cut out for him. Simon was thus far keeping his fleet safe from the entrance of daemons. But he could see the strain in the albino young man, who sat in a cross-legged style at the far end of the bridge.

"Fighter groups Alpha through Omega, make Astro Patterns, take careful turns and concentrate fire on the rear forces of Unified Sith."

Shcwartz swore very loudly, and for a very long time. He came close to smashing the small command holo projector in front him. Several hundred, most likely a thousand chronosian ships had entered from the warp andintermixed among his forces firing.

He had immediately ordered them as enemy targets, but he had lost 29 odd cruisers and 7 Star destroyers to the surprise assault. He now thought the Emperor mistaken by inviting the filthy bastards for that meeting. But he cooled his mind and thought out his possibilties. The 2nd-4th fleets were still unengaged at the mouth. Elements of the 1st were engaging the small Zactarn Prime fleet at the head of the Mouth, facing also the forces of Neo Zeta.

He looked over the holo battlefield before him once more and saw his answer. The Chronosian forces were scattered with no real formation, still in the scattered areas where they came in.

"2nd -4th Fleet is to form up in a tripple V-formation and come strait into the heart of the 5th-8th fleets, clear out the Chronosian Forces there," he told his comms officers.

A tripple phalanx of Star Destroyers, Praetorian Cruisers, SSDs, Shadow Cruisers, and Carriers numbering several hundred (all of the 2-4th fleets) formed up and moved strait into the mixed forces of thr Thrashian fleets and chronosian fleets. They were unstoppable. With no massed formations of their own the Chronosian ships were quickly being picked off, and being hard put to decide between firing at he oncoming phalanx or the ships already close and firing into them.

One of the alrge Crusader stations, after taking heavy ion cannon fire finally failed in its shields and it was destroyed by Chronosian missiles and fire from the Imperial Fleets coming forward. However the other three there focussed their combined 4000 turbolaser fire at the point of the arrow formation of Imperial vessels coming towards them. The last several thousand of the droid fighters massed into large rushes, making kamikazi flights into the Imperial Immobilizers, hoping to get rid of them.

The Forge Moon, above thrashia, launched its own detachtment of 1,000 PDF fighters who swarmed into the mass and made a fighter phalanx and drove into the flank of the Chronosian mass. The factories themselves came online and started pumping out several numbers of droid fighters. Every time a hundred was complete (every 20 minutes) they would launch and enter combat.

Anagonia

08-12-2005, 17:47

OOC:

Thrashia, Check your TeleGrams

Dratheria

08-12-2005, 18:01

Strike Groups from the Grey Knights and Exorcists Legions as well as the Ordo Malleus and the Ordo Hereticus appeared in space near the Thrashian fleet. Overall the groups consisted of 20 Battle Barges, 80 Strike Cruisers, 60 Shieldships, and 3 Pioneer-class War carriers. In all it was a small fleet but these forces were specially trained to deal with the forces of Chaos. As well it is half of the ships that the Imperium could spare at this moment in time. A comm message came over as the Strike Groups closed in on the allied position, "Greetings I am Inquisitor Heltas of the Ordo Malleus. It seems you boys need some help here against the heretics of Chronosia. If you wish to know how we were summoned it was because an being of light appeared to High Lord Ilth telling him that our specialities were required here and it seems it did not lie. So where do you want us to start at?"

Khurgan

08-12-2005, 19:14

The phoenix shrieked, its psychic cry echoing in the minds of the Tzaanlords. Turbolaser blasts seemed to impact on its vast form, creating swirling eddies in its warp-fire body. Pinions of warpfire shimmered, sweeping the nearby space with ghostly fire. The warp rift that was its body seemed to perch on a large asteroid, bits of rock melting and falling into the void. It cried again, psychic energy reverberating through the minds of the Khurganate fleet.

While the Thrashian fleet concentrated on destroying a being which did not exist except in its absence, thousands of lance batteries, manned by fanatical servants of Tzeentch, opened fire, raining down destruction on the Star Destroyers. The elite Tzaangard and their Astartes rivals readied themselves to teleport to the enemy vessels, preparing their power weapons and storm bolters, their minds repeating prayers to Change, in sync with the entirety of the fleet. Torpedo tubes belched their ordinance, while nova cannons launched their gargantuan bombs into the center of the Thrashian armada.

Godular

08-12-2005, 20:12

The Godulan Mako noted the Chronosians' attacks, and Commander Nolan could only smirk as several vessels attempted to turn the Godulans' voidshields against them.

"Aye, that would be a good plan indeed, were it not for one critical flaw."

"Sir? We upgraded the voidshields long ago. The anomalies aren't spherical anymore, they're parabolic and directed towards 'the offending vessel'."

"ONE. CRITICAL. FLAW..."

"Oh."

"You know it, I know it, but the Chronosians... they don't know it. Thanks to the upgraded voidshields, the Chronosian vessels that popped into the allied fleet and fired their main guns are gonna be torn to pieces as a given, but collateral damage will thankfully be minimized."

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And so it was. Those Chronosian vessels that had 'sacrificed' themselves to wipe out the Thrashian forces would be sorely disappointed when they learned firsthand that the Godulans had refined their VoidShields to present a directed-shape anomaly rather than the simple spherical one. Like a shaped charge, it blew only in the direction it was intended to. Though the anomaly was parabolic, and expanded sideways as much as it expanded forward, and any vessel close to the Chronosians would be crippled or destroyed, the number would not be enough to justify the Chronosian's losses.

OOC: Thrashia- Check CW/US's last post. He's taken on a new formation.

No endorse

08-12-2005, 20:20

Unfortunately for the enemy fleet, once they hit a torpedo, the torpedo would detonate, causing a singularity to form. However, the forward momentum of a singularity going at high sublight speeds even after detonation will still cause them to zoom towards the enemy. Not even dreadnoughts would be safe from the yawning grasps of the intense gravity fields.

A detachment of Star Destroyers were sent off to deal with this menace, as well as three Immobilizers to disable the enemy with their red ion beamcannons (OOC: I don't want people to forget that it's 45 seconds per beamcannon then recharge; also good against fighters) and blue cannon broadsides.

How cute... Need to remember to not get hit by many of those. Likely to feel like a bed of nails... thought Admiral Stryde as most of the singularity fields passed far aft of his vessel, the rear dreadnought in the formation. Distance was still a very good friend against projectiles. You see, as each torpedo was destroyed, the speed and direction of the singularity was locked. All it took from there was to travel perpendicular to the weapons and nudge all near shots with tractor beams and gravity well generators.

A few lagging ships were anhiliated, but the vast majority of the fleet still powered on. Hmm, an attact? Let's show them that two can play this game... The entire fleet shifted its attention from raking the Zacturn Prime ships with beam-cannon fire to the approaching ships. They had seen what an Immobilizer could do now, and they concentrated on one of them in an effort to turn their ion beamers into slag heaps. If the first one was disabled or all of its red ion cannons were destroyed, they would move on to the next one. Nova torpedos hit the black, screaming towards the enemy craft, and strike craft surged towards them. The Praemesus class cruisers moved just in front of the Dreadnoughts, and frigates moved into a defensive formation.

The fleet sent a tightbeam back home. They knew what they wanted, and it would arrive soon... hopefully...

Unified Sith

08-12-2005, 20:22

Sabrier swore. Multiple times in fact. He had his main regiment pull out of the fighting as the imperial ships moved into their new formation. He had lost a squadron of ships in the fire fight, so he folded the two halves into each other. "Execute Formation Lung. We will stab the cowardly dogs in the side, Quiaff?" "Aff" Came the reply from his wingmate, Kanithar. The force became a line, that twisted and curved, streaking at the Imperials. They were spearheaded by the Blades. This formation curled around a Star Destroyer, the outside craft firing at the enemy fighters while the inner tube fired on the larger ship.
The Star Destroyer in question, the Victor simply barreled through the enemy fleet, firing all weapons at the enemy while a hundred TIE Avengers moved in and began concentrating fire on one ship at a time. It would not yield to the enemy. After all, it is Imperial.

The Republic and its Lonestar escort cleared the Death Star's range with little time to spare, the ablative cloud having completely dispersed. The Republic retook a defensive position, turning to bare its undamaged port side to the enemy, diverting at availible power to the port broadside shieldings. The Lonestar mimicked this, dropping the bubble shield around the two ships and concentrating on itself.

Once again the mighty guns of the Federation opened fire, focusing everything upon the lead Star Destroyer of the wedge. Missles tubes errupted with smoke and steam as huge Fusion Missiles left them and rocketed at high sublight speeds towards the lead SS.

Meanwhile, the Lonestar had a plan of its own. Employing the Imperial tactic used earlier, it pulled the largest meteors one by one from the belt with tractor beams and flung them towards the enemy fleet and then blasting them with weapons fire, peppering the system with red-hot meteoroids moving towards the Imperials at tremendous speeds, Fusion missiles dodging in between the space rocks.

The Parlimian ships repeated the maneuver over and over, launching missiles and rocks alike, punctuated by the extremely heavy main guns of the mighty Republic.
The wedge simply bore down on the Parlimian ships, unyielding to everything it threw at them. Ten Star Destroyers concentrated their fire on the Republic, with another five attacking the Lonestar together. The meteors were deflected with turbolaser fire, or thrown back by the enemy with the fleet's own tractor beams. Even so, two Star Destroyers were taken out by the masses and a third exploded violently from the main weapons. One of the ten moved to ram the Republic aside.

By now Admiral Viersan had pierced into the heart of the Imperial Forces. His fleet had made a large wedge into it, and was slowly beating it and the khurgan fleet into submission from the rear. When the Chronosian forces arrived and began firing at Thrashian vessels he cursed.

"Damn those Chaotic bastards!" He yelled at no one in particular. He had lost about 23 Star Destroyers thus far, along with about twice that in Praetorian cruisers, even one of his SSDs was heavily damaged. But he still had another 400 Star Destroyers and about 60 cruisers left, along with the four SSDs to fight, and fight they did. He kept over a hundred star destroyers firing at the flagship of the Khurgan fleet, unceasing, wanting to take it down first, knowing that once it was down he would have his work cut out for him. Simon was thus far keeping his fleet safe from the entrance of daemons. But he could see the strain in the albino young man, who sat in a cross-legged style at the far end of the bridge.

"Fighter groups Alpha through Omega, make Astro Patterns, take careful turns and concentrate fire on the rear forces of Unified Sith."
Unfortunately for them, the rear forces happened to be the Death Star itself and its half-a-million fighters, as the driving wedge formation called for the Death Star to support the rear flanks of the ISDs. That fighter force formed a giant arrow and rained down death and destruction on the enemy fighter groups, even ramming at times.

Shcwartz swore very loudly, and for a very long time. He came close to smashing the small command holo projector in front him. Several hundred, most likely a thousand chronosian ships had entered from the warp andintermixed among his forces firing.

He had immediately ordered them as enemy targets, but he had lost 29 odd cruisers and 7 Star destroyers to the surprise assault. He now thought the Emperor mistaken by inviting the filthy bastards for that meeting. But he cooled his mind and thought out his possibilties. The 2nd-4th fleets were still unengaged at the mouth. Elements of the 1st were engaging the small Zactarn Prime fleet at the head of the Mouth, facing also the forces of Neo Zeta.

He looked over the holo battlefield before him once more and saw his answer. The Chronosian forces were scattered with no real formation, still in the scattered areas where they came in.

"2nd -4th Fleet is to form up in a tripple V-formation and come strait into the heart of the 5th-8th fleets, clear out the Chronosian Forces there," he told his comms officers.

A tripple phalanx of Star Destroyers, Praetorian Cruisers, SSDs, Shadow Cruisers, and Carriers numbering several hundred (all of the 2-4th fleets) formed up and moved strait into the mixed forces of thr Thrashian fleets and chronosian fleets. They were unstoppable. With no massed formations of their own the Chronosian ships were quickly being picked off, and being hard put to decide between firing at he oncoming phalanx or the ships already close and firing into them.

One of the alrge Crusader stations, after taking heavy ion cannon fire finally failed in its shields and it was destroyed by Chronosian missiles and fire from the Imperial Fleets coming forward. However the other three there focussed their combined 4000 turbolaser fire at the point of the arrow formation of Imperial vessels coming towards them. The last several thousand of the droid fighters massed into large rushes, making kamikazi flights into the Imperial Immobilizers, hoping to get rid of them.

The Forge Moon, above thrashia, launched its own detachtment of 1,000 PDF fighters who swarmed into the mass and made a fighter phalanx and drove into the flank of the Chronosian mass. The factories themselves came online and started pumping out several numbers of droid fighters. Every time a hundred was complete (every 20 minutes) they would launch and enter combat.
"Death Star. Concentrate fire on the enemy 9th fleet." Admiral Keldalri ordered.

The Death Star's turbolasers, now powered up by the now-drained superlaser's energy, began concentrating their fire on one ship of the 9th fleet at a time, while the Immobilizers continued to use their ion cannons to deal with the droid forces, along with thousands of TIEs to help out. Even so, an Immobilizer had its shields broken and had to fall back, and two others were outright destroyed.

And the driving wedge continued forward still, no matter what. No matter if the lead ISDs fell, for their deaths will ensure victory for the Empire.

Then... "Ma'am. We have a message from Coruscant. We've only just got it with all the interference the battle's causing."

"Read it."

200, incld ts. 1h.

The Admiral smiled. The Empress has seen fit to send an additional force as backup, including a rarely-used torpedo sphere (about 2 klicks of egg-shaped mass-torpedo spamming). And it's coming within the hour, most likely to the Mouth. Long live the Empress, for she will grant her forces victory!

Unified Sith

08-12-2005, 20:43

How cute... Need to remember to not get hit by many of those. Likely to feel like a bed of nails... thought Admiral Stryde as most of the singularity fields passed far aft of his vessel, the rear dreadnought in the formation. Distance was still a very good friend against projectiles. You see, as each torpedo was destroyed, the speed and direction of the singularity was locked. All it took from there was to travel perpendicular to the weapons and nudge all near shots with tractor beams and gravity well generators.

A few lagging ships were anhiliated, but the vast majority of the fleet still powered on. Hmm, an attact? Let's show them that two can play this game... The entire fleet shifted its attention from raking the Zacturn Prime ships with beam-cannon fire to the approaching ships. They had seen what an Immobilizer could do now, and they concentrated on one of them in an effort to turn their ion beamers into slag heaps. If the first one was disabled or all of its red ion cannons were destroyed, they would move on to the next one. Nova torpedos hit the black, screaming towards the enemy craft, and strike craft surged towards them. The Praemesus class cruisers moved just in front of the Dreadnoughts, and frigates moved into a defensive formation.

The fleet sent a tightbeam back home. They knew what they wanted, and it would arrive soon... hopefully...
Though said Immobilizer was taken out of play, the fact that the entire Imperial fleet was now in a driving wedge formation means that it was merely a matter of concentrating firepower on one dreadnought at a time with the mass of Star Destroyers backed up by the Death Star. Heck, some of the ISDs used their own momentum as weapons to ram aside the cruisers and frigates. If they fell, so much the better for the rest of the fleet. The same wedge was also used for the fighter masses as hundreds descended to concentrate on one smaller ship at a time with the help of their larger motherships.

Thrashia

08-12-2005, 20:46

Unfortunately for them, the rear forces happened to be the Death Star itself and its half-a-million fighters, as the driving wedge formation called for the Death Star to support the rear flanks of the ISDs. That fighter force formed a giant arrow and rained down death and destruction on the enemy fighter groups, even ramming at times.

"Death Star. Concentrate fire on those Crusaders." Admiral Keldalri ordered.

The Death Star's turbolasers, now powered up by the now-drained superlaser's energy, began concentrating their fire on one Crusader at a time, while the Immobilizers continued to use their ion cannons to deal with the droid forces, along with thousands of TIEs to help out. Even so, an Immobilizer had its shields broken and had to fall back.

OOC: CW, your ignoring the fact that the 9th fleet launched all its fighters...meaning our fighter compliments are about the same in that area. So, don't be so sure that your fighters can swarm when they're facing nearly equal forces. Also, the DS is in the rear, the Crusaders are in front of your arrow formation, so how is it your able to fire at them, how does that work? And can't expect me to believe only a single Immobilizer is 'damaged'? I've sent hundreds of droid fighters smashing into them, and concentrated fire on them a dozen times. So I ask, please, that you correct this. And I replied to all TGs.

IC:

Viersan looked over at Simon who had suddenly come to a hunkered down position, hands and knees on the ground. He was muttering to himself.

Simon sensed the force out there in space. The evil malice that would swallow him whole. Images of Simon's long dead brother returned to him, of when he had been forced into Dr. Volescu's Psykic lab.

He felt the raise of energy, knew that the enemy was preparing to have men warp into the bowls of the ships.

Simon rose to his feet. A white halo of fire played across his body shimmering. He opened his eyes and they shone brilliantly blue-white. He Saw, and from the depths of his soul dragged forth his power. He Saw the entity known as 'Tzeetch' and was not impressed. He was no longer Simon. He had reached too far into his warp power to be anything other than a living avatar of strength. His body began glowing as well.

Viersan and the rest of the crew watched with horrid fascination as they watched Simon.

Simon disapeared from the bridge of the ship. He reapeared out in space, the paths of war going by him. But he stood forth, and Saw. There the grinning manevlent face of the Chaos God.

-You now die!-

The voice eachoed throughout the emptiness of space, it rumbled and even caused ships to shake like a shock wave passed over them. A great ball of flame, white and blue, filled with a holy fire and power launched and exploded ouot of Simon's body. It was like a super nova exploding. The entire battlefield was filled with its brilliance. The power was of one Simon had kept buried in him for two decades. The power of Love, of Caring, of Friendship, things his brother had shown him before he died. And now he used that to destroy this foul enemy.

Thrashia

08-12-2005, 20:52

Though said Immobilizer was taken out of play, the fact that the entire Imperial fleet was now in a driving wedge formation means that it was merely a matter of concentrating firepower on one dreadnought at a time with the mass of Star Destroyers backed up by the Death Star. Heck, some of the ISDs used their own momentum as weapons to ram aside the cruisers and frigates. If they fell, so much the better for the rest of the fleet. The same wedge was also used for the fighter masses as hundreds descended to concentrate on one smaller ship at a time with the help of their larger motherships.

Schwartz had to cover his face and turn away from the screen which shined with a blue-white light. When it finally faded he turned see the Imperial Fleet still moving into the mass of ships. "Thats rather useless," he said.

He checked his maps again watching as the path of Imperial ships were making and that of his own formation. Yes! he thought. The Imperial formation was too fast, his own would hit it in the flank like a battering ram, and from the damage the Crusaders had already dealt and his own 5th-8th fleets, they would be decimated.

He saw the Death Star getting closer.

"Its time we entered combat," said Schwartz. The controllers of the large sphere shifted the giant station so thats its equater faced the approaching Imperials. Then like a horrid light show, tens of thousands of turbolasers, heavy turbolasers, ion cannons, missiles, and torpedoes sped out and hit enemy vessels. They aimed for everything that was an enemy, wether it was a Chronosian vessel or a Imperial one, they well trained clone gunners aboard the Epion space station concentrated on taking them down.

From the sides of the sphere launched the last great horde of Thrashian fighters, numbering some half a million. They great mass of fighters swarmed over enemy vessels.

Mini Miehm

08-12-2005, 20:53

OOC: Damn, I have a lot of work to do...OOC: Fair enough.

"Ma'am! Ten ships lost in that opening volley! If this keeps up, we won't be able to handle this foe for long!" A clone intoned quickly.

"Fire a volley of singularity missiles." The Admiral gritted her teeth. "Try and defeat those wedges! Follow up with attacking those...sidewalls!" She had to recall what these foes used. "They're the weaker spots!"

The Death Star added its own considerable firepower to the battle, though with these damned enemies around, it may not be enough to remove them all in any good time.

OOC: I'll address the missiles and such later, I only have time for a little bit of posting right now... So, the two moon sized objects are going to have alot of fun together...

IC:

The Battleglobe focused all of its fire on the opposing Death Star, they were just about evenly matched in size, and with the superlaser out of play, the Battleglobe certainly had the armament advantage, with over 100,000 Grasers, and an equal number of lighter lasers, plus its thousands of missile tubes. And its one secret weapon... One that would open the way for Heavy Metal two... But first, it was time for a little psych warfare, of the oldest kind. Every Comm channel not used by the allies was suddeenly flooded with the screaming of electric gituar, bass, and the thunder of the drums, and the tolling of a massive bell, Metallica's For Whom the Bell Tolls flooded the spacewaves, right on the heels of a transmission to the Khurganate and Unified Sith flagships, stating simply:

The Bell Tolls For Thee...

Unified Sith

08-12-2005, 20:58

OOC: CW, your ignoring the fact that the 9th fleet launched all its fighters...meaning our fighter compliments are about the same in that area. So, don't be so sure that your fighters can swarm when they're facing nearly equal forces. Also, the DS is in the rear, the Crusaders are in front of your arrow formation, so how is it your able to fire at them, how does that work? And can't expect me to believe only a single Immobilizer is 'damaged'? I've sent hundreds of droid fighters smashing into them, and concentrated fire on them a dozen times. So I ask, please, that you correct this. And I replied to all TGs.
OOC: Edited to attack 9th fleet. and as for the fighters, the Death Star alone has half a million (at least) fighters, plus tens of thousands more of slightly larger light ships. The ISD fleet has 43,200 fighters in total as well (72 fighters times 600 ships at beginning of fight), as well as at least ten thousand other light craft. And at least half are hanging back to protect the capships as per the formation and the other half are on offensives. Make of it what you will.

Emperor Palpatine II

08-12-2005, 21:00

OOC: you know...but that post's got style. *points to mini miehm's post*

IC:

From the depths of hyperspace came the full might of the Imperial system of Borain. On the bridge of his command ship, the Brave Heart Admiral Khan looked on his screens. He had come out of hyperspace behind the nation Zactern Prime, whose fleet was being pounded by superior numbers.

"Captain, has the fleet arrived?" asked Khan. His captain, a man from the old fleet days nodded.

"Yes sir," Muller said. All 50 Star Destroyers, and 30 Victory Star Destroyers.

"Well, we have an enemy in front of us. Lets help squash them!"

The full might of the Borain fleet smashed into the rear of Zactern Prime!

Thrashia

08-12-2005, 21:02

OOC: Edited to attack 9th fleet. and as for the fighters, the Death Star alone has half a million (at least) fighters, plus tens of thousands more of slightly larger light ships. The ISD fleet has 43,200 fighters in total as well (72 fighters times 600 ships at beginning of fight), as well as at least ten thousand other light craft. And at least half are hanging back to protect the capships as per the formation and the other half are on offensives. Make of it what you will.

OOC: Oh ho ho! If you'd checked my fleet specs carefully you'd see I had altered several things about my SDs. I put a few things on and took some things out. I basically got rid of all those big, take up room, AT walkers, and made it so each SD could carry 75 tie fighters.

Mini Miehm

08-12-2005, 21:32

OOC: Do what I can Palp. I'm very big on heavy metal, to the point that all of my Dns and SDns are named after Metallica songs, or jokes on metallica songs in the cases of War Death Pestilence and Famine...

It also turns out that I have more time than I thought, so I can finish that post I just made...

IC:

Countermissiles launched madly, while EW suites sucked away as many missiles as possible, calling to them with false images, and laser clusters pounded out bolts of coherent light, striking missiles out of space with a frenzy of activity... Hundreds were struck down in the first countermissile launch, and hundreds more in the second, but that was all the time they had, hundreds more bored in on the fleet, dozens and more were sucked off by EW and Dazzlers, and Dragons Teeth stopped even more, but three lucky hits made contact with the upper wedge of the Metal Militia 2, burning out the entire aft impeller ring, and shattering the impeller rooms, but the majority of the surviving missiles got a surprising course change, specifically, almost right on top of the Death Star, heading for it. 3 ships other than the MMII had massive impeller damage, and Death was crippled(that sounds really wierd...), but there was still hope...

Transmission to the Mako:

Please drop the shield for just a moment, we would like to try something. We intend to use all of our Yamato Batteries in a concentated barrage, to convince the enemy that you have been destroyed, then, once we are done, bring up the shield again. Hopefully the Death Star will fire once they see us unload without any consequences, at the least we may bag something that tries to use an Axiel Laser, but we are being slaughtered here, and we have to try and destroy that thing...

Zactarn Prime

08-12-2005, 21:52

The pressed onward but then from right behind a Providence-class Carrier Destroyer came in. It was the Fire. It was known as that simply for the fact that it laid hell to the Cravian Jedi. Basilisk War Droids, which it carries in it's hangar instead of TIE's, that drenched them in "fire". Genosian Fanblade Starfighters followed up hovering around it. Then came in a Venator-class Star Destroyer. In the hangar it carried Dragon Bane Ugly Starfighters, and was surrounded by Vornskyr X-Tie Ugly Starfighters. The ships rendezvoused with the others in the fleet. They came forth toward the battle. They heard the firing. Then about 15 minutes of the sound of firing they saw it. The ships approached seeing the massive battle at hand.

OOC: Someone attack me or something. That would be the only way I could see joining ATM. I'm kinda busy.

No endorse

08-12-2005, 21:53

-snip-
IC:
The Inferno pilots were not things to be batted around, and they showed it quite well. Squadrons of bombers swarmed about the approaching Star Destroyers, dropping everything they could, even including the occasional Nova Bomb. Snub Fighters tore through space. These small craft were capable of outmaneuvering a sluggish Tie Avenger, and showed every ounce of their speed.

Friagates greatly appreciated the enemy's use of a Wedge for its fighter formations. Continuous-beam PDGs scanned through the formations like searchlights, carving massive paths for Gunship squadrons to exploit rapidly. Cruisers were also in their element, splitting up into trios and concentrating on individual Star Destroyers. The entire fleet dropped strait 'down' like rocks, shooting everything they had at the enemy's ventral fire arcs, the Praemesus class Battlecarriers creating a wall with their PPAD shielding.

Unfortunatly, a dreadnought was already doomed to succumb. In an effort to try to pierce the formation, it had charged strait up the center. While quite valiant, it meant that the ship was ultimatly doomed. Brave, but foolhardy, and the captain would recieve what was due to him.

One by one maneuvering engines were blown away. However, for each cluster that got destroyed, that energy was re-routed to the the main cannons. Soon nothing was left but the linear drive, and the two foreward beam cannons had been turned into slag heaps along with the full bow of the craft. But the ventral turret, the main turret, continued firing. The cannons simply could not handle the ammount of energy that was being re-routed to it, and what could not be used was dumped strait into the fore deflector screens.

PDGs, also experiencing an overcharge from all of the power being rerouted to them, were scanning the heavens constantly in search of enemy fighter squadrons.

A bright blue aura filled the entirety of space, blinding everyone, but not ceasing the fire. When vision cleared, the Dreadnought was no more. It had already had to resort to flinging Nova Bombs at the enemy ships with its dorsal tractor beams. Its ventral cannons were overheating, the main reactor was overloading, and its PDGs had been all but destroyed, but it was still moving as if by the will of the Gods. In a last ditch attempt to make more of an impact, it had used emergency thrusters and the dumping of raw energy out where the maneuvering thrusters had been. The course change was rough, but it had rammed strait into an enemy Star Destroyer.

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Admiral Stryde was pleased with the results, and was preparing for an even fiercer enemy counter-attack. However, a tightbeam transmission was handed to him by a concerned looking aide.

Return at once. Revolution.

DAMN IT! "All craft, let's get out of this inhibiter field and back home! We have revolution at Sanctuary. As soon as we get back there, we're gonna send Tanis Station straight to the Eshirian Soverignty. Anyone crazy enough to jump without that thing there deserves the dozen hells they bring forth!"

Ships heeled about, going as fast towards the outer edge of the field as possible, fighters screaming back to their hangars. Everything that could leave did as fast as possible. A small force was left behind, though. This small fleet left behind consisted of a single Dreadnought, ten Aardvarks, ten Hornets, and every strike craft that couldn't get to their hangars fast enough. A stand to let the others get home.

OOC EDIT: Zactarn Prime, look here:
http://forums.jolt.co.uk/showpost.php?p=10055090&postcount=67
http://forums.jolt.co.uk/showpost.php?p=10056274&postcount=77
http://forums.jolt.co.uk/showpost.php?p=10059041&postcount=97

EDIT EDIT:
http://forums2.jolt.co.uk/showpost.php?p=10058815&postcount=90 for an update of my attack on you

Unified Sith

08-12-2005, 22:01

Schwartz had to cover his face and turn away from the screen which shined with a blue-white light. When it finally faded he turned see the Imperial Fleet still moving into the mass of ships. "Thats rather useless," he said.

He checked his maps again watching as the path of Imperial ships were making and that of his own formation. Yes! he thought. The Imperial formation was too fast, his own would hit it in the flank like a battering ram, and from the damage the Crusaders had already dealt and his own 5th-8th fleets, they would be decimated.
"Ma'am. Enemy fleet is aiming for our flank."

"Very good. Release all asteroids gathered at them. If they want to ram us, they'll have to deal with the asteroids first."

He saw the Death Star getting closer.

"Its time we entered combat," said Schwartz. The controllers of the large sphere shifted the giant station so thats its equater faced the approaching Imperials. Then like a horrid light show, tens of thousands of turbolasers, heavy turbolasers, ion cannons, missiles, and torpedoes sped out and hit enemy vessels. They aimed for everything that was an enemy, wether it was a Chronosian vessel or a Imperial one, they well trained clone gunners aboard the Epion space station concentrated on taking them down.

From the sides of the sphere launched the last great horde of Thrashian fighters, numbering some half a million. They great mass of fighters swarmed over enemy vessels.
"Death Star-sized object firing. Scattered, though."

"I see. Alpha Strike it with singularity missiles. Maintain formation for Thrashia Prime." She ordered even as ships died. The entire fleet was now down one hundred Star Destroyers, but still they charged. A swarm of missiles sped out for the Epion space station itself, ready to gobble it up.

The Death Star's shields flared under the onslaught as they slowly -though quicker than before- counted down the percentages. Then the Death Star's surviving singularity missiles were turned upon the space station, by the Gates. Tractor beams frantically moved to stop them and turn them loose on Thrashian forces. Even so, the turncoat singularities reduced the shields to less than 75%, just enough to have fighters enter holes that formed due to the weapons. Before the Gates closed, however, several dozen asteroids were thrown through them, as well as turbolaser bolt.

The admiral sighed. This is quite the battle...

Godular

08-12-2005, 22:17

Transmission to the Mako:

Please drop the shield for just a moment, we would like to try something. We intend to use all of our Yamato Batteries in a concentated barrage, to convince the enemy that you have been destroyed, then, once we are done, bring up the shield again. Hopefully the Death Star will fire once they see us unload without any consequences, at the least we may bag something that tries to use an Axiel Laser, but we are being slaughtered here, and we have to try and destroy that thing...

Impossible. Though they might not be able to see the VoidShield's operation in system, deactivating and reactivating it is plainly noticeable and would not only point out that the voidshield is back on, but also WHERE we are and that we are not dead.

Mini Miehm

08-12-2005, 22:26

Impossible. Though they might not be able to see the VoidShield's operation in system, deactivating and reactivating it is plainly noticeable and would not only point out that the voidshield is back on, but also WHERE we are and that we are not dead.

Reply:

We understand, we'll just have to do what we can without it then...

Khurgan

08-12-2005, 22:51

Simon disapeared from the bridge of the ship. He reapeared out in space, the paths of war going by him. But he stood forth, and Saw. There the grinning manevlent face of the Chaos God.

-You now die!-

The voice eachoed throughout the emptiness of space, it rumbled and even caused ships to shake like a shock wave passed over them. A great ball of flame, white and blue, filled with a holy fire and power launched and exploded ouot of Simon's body. It was like a super nova exploding. The entire battlefield was filled with its brilliance. The power was of one Simon had kept buried in him for two decades. The power of Love, of Caring, of Friendship, things his brother had shown him before he died. And now he used that to destroy this foul enemy.

The blast arced towards the Phoenix-rift, smashing aside a pair of the gargantuan battlecruisers. Diving into the rift, the Phoenix glowed with fresh power, the rift enlarged by the warp energy fed into it, devouring the asteroid that orbited it.

Beyond the portal, in the cascading energy of the Warp, a malevolent intelligence lurked, far more powerful than any mortal or Immortal of the Materium could dream. The God shrank back as the massive blast of psychic energy poured through the portal, whipping tendrils of energy about it, encapsulating the maelstrom, feeding off the raw emotion inside it, the raw power for Change it possessed. And slowly, the thing grew.

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With a horrifying blast of fire, the warriors of the Tzaangard and Astartes coalesced into existance, storm bolters blazing, gunning down anything that moved. Assault cannons whirred, rending flesh, bone and durasteel equally. A pair of tech adepts slammed the bulk of a fusion bomb against a bulkhead, carressing the runes of activation, preparing the machine spirit to detonate.

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The armada closed ranks, presenting a single wall of lances pointed towards the Thrashian fleet. Yet more bombardment poured forth, slashing at hulls and shields. Still, a dozen of the Cataclysms and a pair of the Lords of Change turned, pointing their prows towards the largest population center in system. With a plume of black smoke, dozens of high-speed torpedoes launched towards the planet, moving faster than the eye could see. Each would detonate upon reaching the atmosphere, spreading death across the world below.

Zactarn Prime

08-12-2005, 22:57

Dratheria

08-12-2005, 23:22

Inquisitor Heltas yelled out a command and his Battle Barge fired multiple torpedoes of Materium energy. These torpedoes were designed to seal up warp rifts and were a new weapon used by the Ordo Malleus. As the fleet moved closer 30 Shieldships split off the main attack force and created a reinforced defensive perimeter around the Thrashian vessels so as to give them added protection. The fleet meanwhile pulled in with the Thrashians and powered all weapons and enhanced shielding. Chaos would have no effect on these warriors for it was their sole job to know Chaos.

Mini Miehm

08-12-2005, 23:24

The Khurganate ships had launched torpedoes, but that was rather ppoiintlees with Arbiters in the system... The asteroids and Turbolaser shot had been inconvenient, but more so for the capships than the Arbiters, since the portals were not on the same horizontal plane as the Arbiters when they formed... Dozens of carriers were smashed by the strike, none were destroyed, but all took rather unpleasant levels of damage, even with their shields taking the brunt of the hits. Luckily, the Interceptors they housed were already away, flitting about the fleet as a final safety against an enemy Fighter Swarm...

Now Warp Gates opened in front of the torpedoes, and sent them to a place where they woud be more useful as bullets... The Death Star, again it was targeted by the power of allied missiles, and again it would try to strike through the holes, but it would only have 6 seconds to act before the portals closed again...

Godular

08-12-2005, 23:25

OOC: Last post is null and void except for the ships that came in

IC: The ships came in and hit Borain from behind. They smacked into. The Providence-class Star Dreadnought opened fire with it's 14 Turbolaser turrets. The Genosian Fanblade Fighters began circling the enemy ships and firing here and firing there. The first fleet was being rammed and rammed hard. The A-9 Vigilance Interceptors opened fire as well. The VSSD took aim and fired it's half Charged Axial Superlaser (capable of knocking out Jupiter times 2 in one shot at full charge). The blast ripped through. Since the blast was not fully charged it would fall short of the void sheild my about 50 yards. This was sure to do damage.

OOC: That is still enough firepower to be caught by the Voidshield. Half charging the thing doesn't affect the distance, just the firepower, and if its enough to whack jupiter, its gonna get bounced. VSSD go bye-bye...

Indeed it would do damage, unwanted damage, but damage nonetheless.

The VSSD's superlaser only went about five kilometers before the portal formed on top of it, sucking up the turbolaser and creating the same burst of shield-sapping radiation as had befallen the Thrashian and Chronosian vessels. At the same time, reality shattered around the portal, and in a nice directed expansion scythed away at the super star destroyer...

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It was also at about this time that the small group of enchanted torpedos finally reached the Khurganate portal, having taken a long and winding path throughout the system to avoid being shot down or otherwise pestered by enemy forces. The torpedos detonated on proximity to the portal or to recognized Khurganate forces, and though their detonations were nothing special for the most part, being nothing more than simple fractal torpedos and common torps from the Shade Cruisers, what happened AFTERWARDS... was another story entirely.

The torpedos, imbued with the sheer force of law and order through the Axiomatic Enchantment, and also imbued with a portal cracker quality by virtue of the 'Sever the Tie' enchantment, generated massive pulses of pure lawful energy that would do the following:

A) Drive any chaos minions suicidally insane, primarily as a result of the fact that their unpredictable minds were suddenly overwhelmed with thoughts of bureaucracy, by-the-book procedure, due process, and proper chain of command. The bane of chaos in its purest form, the axiomatic pulse would also manifest this damage physically, burning away at the chaos minions and leaving them writhing in pain, if not killing them outright. Whatever's on the other side of the portal will feel some ouchie too.

B) Shut down any and all portals within that particular region of space. If it led to an alternate plane of existence, it was shut the hell off, and would remain so for about another hour or two. Incursion portals, that big winged ball, all of 'em would rather abruptly go poof, splat, fzzt, or whatever sound would accompany their unceremonious dispersal.

OOC: This would also affect Voidshields, but the region of space is not really all that large. The voidshield will be active everywhere but that region, and if anything attempts to fire a Superlaser within the Solid-Space region, the voidshield will only be able to form a portal outside the field. It'll still catch the beam, but the backlash will be too far away to cause harm.

Khurgan

08-12-2005, 23:56

Swerving, the torpedoes reversed course again, machine spirits piloting them back towards their proper target, the logic engines this time planning a route that would avoid any Meihm presence. The adepts of the Collegia Technologicae and their creations would not be fooled so easily.

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The torpedoes plunged towards the warp portal, scythed to bits by the combined lance batteries of a hundred ships. Still, a few torpedoes managed to enter the portal, detonating and activating their enchantments.

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Tzaanlord Helion smiled. The fools and their ignorant misconceptions about our Gods. Their pathetic enchantments merely bolster the efficiency of my legions. He watched, amused, as the Phoenix cried one last time before a massive pulse of warpfire gouted from the closing portal, the satisfied belch of a Chaos God.

The crews of the broadsides moved with a renewed efficiency, the pauses between their barages decreasing, their accuracy honed to a new level. They targetted bridges, shield generators, weapon turrets, concentrating their fire so that each individual target's destruction was ensured.

No endorse

08-12-2005, 23:57

The fleet rocked slightly as the Zactarn Prime VSSD was destroyed. Three Hornet class frigates that were too close to the spacial anomaly got engulfed, their screams still reverberating over the communications systems. An Aardvark class cruiser was already limping from enemy turbolaser fire, and the explosion of the enemy vessel almost broke the shields. The wounded craft retreated back to the safety of the dreadnought to recharge its sheild and isolate damage.

The cruisers locked on to the Providence class ship, all ten concentrating their fire on it. They were still under fire from the GE fleet, and it was looking grim for this force. However, suddenly the dreadnought began striking out as effectively as mechanicly possible, surpassing human ability.

The captain of the Ajuicator class dreadnought NES Godsend had activated the neural interface and become one with the vessel. This was the only vessel class in No Endorse currently able to do this, and it was more than useful. He saw what it saw, he felt what it felt. He was it. He was now the NES Godsend, and the NES Godsend was him.

The vessel locked on to the remainder of the Zactarn Prime fleet. Beam cannons activated, hurling energy about against the enemy. The ship lept ahead, signaling for all starship captains to follow him.

Fire became more intense, the ships began to warm up, and energy was juggled insanely between systems. It was a war of survival, and now at least one of the ships could think.

Godular

09-12-2005, 00:01

OOC: Khurgan- The Axiomatic torpedos won't affect humans or chaos followers. Only the demons and critters that came through the portals, and it WILL hurt them. Its basically a form of radiation that will only harm chaotic critters.

Khurgan

09-12-2005, 00:04

OOC: Khurgan- The Axiomatic torpedos won't affect humans or chaos followers. Only the demons and critters that came through the portals, and it WILL hurt them. It basically scythes away at their existence.

OOC: Daemons are already gone... Oh, and use the OOC thread, please?

Godular

09-12-2005, 00:14

OOC: link the durn thing next time. OOC threads should have "OOC THREAD" in the title.

Mini Miehm

09-12-2005, 00:23

OOC: Khurgan Khurgan Khurgan, when will you learn... Range is no issue... If I can see them I can snag them... Like this.

IC:

Hmm, just like Godulars Red Rain, oh well, we beat that too...

Another set of Warp Tears opened up, once again catching the torpedoes, and this time, they emerged deep in the heart of the systems sun.

Zactarn Prime

09-12-2005, 00:34

The large gigantous Vengeance Super Star Destroyer saw the blast. Captain Hugo Fidel then spoke,

"Men. Ourtime has been great. Goodbye!"

He got on his knees and began praying awaiting death. Men ran to the many Tie Vampires and departed off the hangar. They were safely out of the way when the blast came back at them. They looked in horror. The ship was decimated and the boom spread across the area. At that moment the Providence-class Fire smacked on it's sheilds. 78% of the A-9 Vigilance Interceptors were destroyed.

Unified Sith

09-12-2005, 01:03

Zactarn Prime

09-12-2005, 01:29

"Zatarn Prime fleet, your remaining ships are to strike at the Mini Miehm flanks." The Admiral ordered. "And remember not to use torpedoes."

"Sir we wish to disagree. Leaving would be unwise. They have us pinned. An attempt to leave would have us all decimated. Reinforcements can be brought in however."

Mini Miehm

09-12-2005, 01:30

"Zatarn Prime fleet, your remaining ships are to strike at the Mini Miehm flanks." The Admiral ordered. "And remember not to use torpedoes."

As for the fleet..."Maintain fire on the major Miehm ships. Try to hit the Arbiter ships if possible."

Then she had a thought. "Perhaps..."

She drafted a message and had it sent off to Imperial Command. The Death Star's shields flared again as torpedoes smacked into them, but the reactor was putting power into the shields as fast as possible...

The shields would never save it under the full onslaught of the Terran Battleglobe, every energy weapon and missile tube they had was firing at max rate, sending out blasts of coherent light and energy, while missiles added their own particle laser strikes to the fray, a sea of destruction surged around the Death Star, pumped by a single ship...

Fire continued to pour into the TD Fleet, and they returned fire with just as much alacrity, targeting their KEWs on more SDs(about three to as many SDs as I can do that for...), while lasers and Particle Disruption Cannon tore at the rest of the enemy fleet, splitting their fire between two Immobilizers at once now, instead of just one at a time. Critical damage codes appeared over a few of the Leviathans, but the real heavy hitters were still intact, for the most part.

Now was the true moment of agony, APOLLO, taken to truly astronomical proportions, tens of thousands of missile pods were tractored to the so far unblemished hull of the Basttleglobe, and now they would all be released, sending a swarm of missiles, possibly over 1 million strong into the teeth of the Death Stars shield, and that was only the half facing the deadly orb, the other half were targeted onto anything that could be observed targeting the Arbiters, since they were a rather important part of Terran Missile Defens Doctrinew, and needed to be protected if at all possile.

Klington

09-12-2005, 01:49

The Klingtonian fleet had just arrived on the scene, which had took quite a while because they had to travel through the FTLi. 400 of them were Stryker Class ships with there magnetic weaponry, and the other 600 where from the main Klingtonian fleet.

Aboard the Godhand:
Narthaus sat in his command chair, "Send out a comlink to our allies." He ordered.
"Well it looks like I am late this time..." Narthaus said, "But nevermind that, Im here to help now, where do you need us?"

"Alright, Send out the Strykers and get them in the battle quickly, than lets wait for our allies to respond to see if we are specifically needed somewhere."
Narthaus ordered.

With that 400 hundred heavily armed Strykers flew into the Fleet of Khurgan firing their magnetic rail guns and launching bording pods left and right into the enemy.
A few enemy ships recieved a direct hit, but instead of the round exploding inside the ship, an extremely powerful magnet activated and caused the already unstable ship structure to collapse.
On the other hand boarding pods shot off the Strykers like it was going out of style. Inside the boarding pods were a special race of Force Sensitive People called the Kelnahni. The Kelnahni's weapon of Choice: Grenades. Lots and lots of grenades, plus the occasional heavy curtain of laser fire.
It was time to kick some ass...

Unified Sith

09-12-2005, 02:16

The shields would never save it under the full onslaught of the Terran Battleglobe, every energy weapon and missile tube they had was firing at max rate, sending out blasts of coherent light and energy, while missiles added their own particle laser strikes to the fray, a sea of destruction surged around the Death Star, pumped by a single ship...

Fire continued to pour into the TD Fleet, and they returned fire with just as much alacrity, targeting their KEWs on more SDs(about three to as many SDs as I can do that for...), while lasers and Particle Disruption Cannon tore at the rest of the enemy fleet, splitting their fire between two Immobilizers at once now, instead of just one at a time. Critical damage codes appeared over a few of the Leviathans, but the real heavy hitters were still intact, for the most part.

Now was the true moment of agony, APOLLO, taken to truly astronomical proportions, tens of thousands of missile pods were tractored to the so far unblemished hull of the Basttleglobe, and now they would all be released, sending a swarm of missiles, possibly over 1 million strong into the teeth of the Death Stars shield, and that was only the half facing the deadly orb, the other half were targeted onto anything that could be observed targeting the Arbiters, since they were a rather important part of Terran Missile Defens Doctrinew, and needed to be protected if at all possile.
"Death Star shields now less than sixty percent. Hull damage reported in several sectors. Fifty Star Destroyers out of commission." A clone replied calmly.

"Grrr...what can I do..." The Admiral gritted her teeth in anger. "They're killing the fleet!"

She ran through everything in her mind to try and salvage the situation. "Concentrate firepower on one of those MMIIs. Take it out! Then concentrate on each one until they fall!"

With Imperial efficiency, the fleet shifted targets to concentrate turbolaser and ion cannon fire to the first MMIIs. The Death Star began revolving on its axis to bring relatively good shields to bear, while the weak ones recharged by pumping even more energy from the nonessential systems, but that can't be done forever.

"Sir we wish to disagree. Leaving would be unwise. They have us pinned. An attempt to leave would have us all decimated. Reinforcements can be brought in however."
"Bully through the enemy. Reinforcments are arriving soon." The admiral ordered. "And it's ma'am."

Mini Miehm

09-12-2005, 02:46

"Death Star shields now less than sixty percent. Hull damage reported in several sectors. Fifty Star Destroyers out of commission." A clone replied calmly.

"Grrr...what can I do..." The Admiral gritted her teeth in anger. "They're killing the fleet!"

She ran through everything in her mind to try and salvage the situation. "Concentrate firepower on one of those MMIIs. Take it out! Then concentrate on each one until they fall!"

With Imperial efficiency, the fleet shifted targets to concentrate turbolaser and ion cannon fire to the first MMIIs. The Death Star began revolving on its axis to bring relatively good shields to bear, while the weak ones recharged by pumping even more energy from the nonessential systems, but that can't be done forever.

"All MMII's, Roll Ship, they're targeting us specifically, Roll Ship!!!"

But it was already too late for the MMII Death, its wedge had been badly damaged by the singularity strikes, and now power runs arced and exploded... "Give me a line to the Mako, quick..." Commodore Mckeon knew he had only one last blow to give out, and the Mako was the only way for it to happen...

Transmission to Godulan Mako:

Please, you must lower the Shield for a moment, we will cover you in that time and move you afterwards, but for now Death is going to be destroyed, and we can't possibly stop them with out the Yamatos, and we'll never survive if we don't destroy everything we can soon, we have to fire at least once while Death still has any power at all...

Death was an air bleeding wreck, barely alive but still alive enough for a final strike if the Godulans would give them their window...

The Commander of the Battleglobe, Dahak, knew it was time, he activated the enchenach drive, feeding off of the gravity well generated by the DSs FTLi, he was going to overload it, and then things would get messy, half of the AoN General Fleet was waiting for the Signal to move, and squadrons of Strike bombers and Shinig Spear Fighters, on loan from Gronde, were poised with them, along with an entire System Defense Corp, ready to jump in as soon as the FTLi was down... And, adding insult to injury, Task Fleet Famine waited with them, it had finally arrived from the talks, and now it would enter the system, unharmed, and fresh, with another load of APOLLO pods to loose on the enemy ships...

Khurgan

09-12-2005, 02:52

The Humankind Abh

09-12-2005, 03:54

A single Jump Gate opened and out screamed a White Star. The vessel pulled into formation behind the Thrashian front. The ship looked ridiculous as it was dwarfed by just about everything around it since the White Star was only about 456 meters.

The commander of the ship sent a communication to the Admiral hoping that it had time to answer.
Message to Thrashian Forces:
The Abh Empire has sent aid in your time of need. Tell us where your lines need bolstering and we shall prove a thorn in the enemy's side.

It would be ridiculous for one vessel and such a small one at that would prove of any help.
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Hyperspace:

Admiral Abriel's lead Victory Destroyer sent morris code to the ships throughout the fleet to be ready for battle. They were using the lights on the hull for this to maintain all silence.

Reports were coming into the Admiral from scouts. "So the Chronosians wish to attack Thrashia. I am hardly surprised. In fact, I would have been disappointed if they had joined with us. It wouldn't have been good form for Chrono and I would have rather been suspicious."

Kyanges

09-12-2005, 04:13

(OOC: Won’t be able to make any good fleet movements. RL, ‘nuf said.)

IC:

Each of the 35 Shade cruisers ceased their attack, and immediately dropped back into cloak following the furious counter attack that ensued. At least they had completed their mission. The few vessels they had disabled were already good enough for the time being. The more they stopped, the easier the job allied fleets would have. As they cloaked, a few were hit by enemy counter fire before they could move off. The few Shades or so that were hit had their cloaks knocked out, forcing them to try to escape in plain view. The rest that escaped moved off to another ship, and waited to repeat their attack.

The 20 Arc destroyers continued to hold below their targets, pouring additional fire into the fighter bays, and other critical targets on the hapless vessel above them. The enemy counter fire was once again fierce, but Arc Destroyers were designed explicitly for this kind of punishment. Their PPAD shields raised a physical wall of Corrollium around them; forming a wall of matter rated to stand up to the pressures of an average star for a few seconds. If anything, the Immobilizers would have a hard time penetrating the tough barrier.

In response to the reorganization of the enemy fleet, all fighters changed their tactics, from attacking everything in sight, to only fighters. Each fighter team continued cloaking, trapping enemy fighters in tractor beams, pounding them into submission, then recloaking and moving on to the next fighter.

Each of the 30 Glint Assault vessels offloaded 100 ES Marines each pod. Rather than charging blindly into battle with the hordes of clones, they stayed near their pods, setting up auto turrets, and letting them take on the enemy. As many as 300 ES Marines were nonetheless taken down by the sheer number of enemy reinforcements massing against their entry point.

Te’kel was commanding the battle with decent skill, though the more could be done…

“Where are my reinforcements?” He demanded.

“ACE-Recon reports that the fleets returning from the Yevon rebellion have just finished their crew rotations, and will arrive in a few minutes.”

As they spoke, the bulk of the Eshirian fleet was now ready for the fight. Thousands of Eshirian reinforcements were now mid-jump to the battle. Adding to the fleet,

-200 Preamesus Battlecarriers: 700 fighters each
-250 Shade Cruisers.
-30 Arc Destroyers
-1,000 UL class Ultra-lights. (12 fighters each. Tiny vessel.)
-2,000 various supply ships.

“What about Exas-1?...”

“It’ll be ready, sir.”

Accompanying the modest force was Exas-1… Something like the Terran battleglobes of MM, though decidedly not quite as impressive, it was still a powerful asset of the Eshirian Fleet, and therefore would be tagging along. There was only one such station constructed, though more would follow. This particular Station was fresh from battling Yevon Forces inside Neo Zeta. When it arrived, it would soon add to the already impressive technological advantage the Eshirian Fleet already possessed over its more conventional though still highly formidable Imperial adversaries. Time to arrival: 10 minutes.

Anagonia

09-12-2005, 06:14

Darth Hydrus stood on the bridge of the Confederate Pocket Battleship Armageddon, hissing through his dolphin-like muzzle. A delphinian by he was, a creature humanoid in nature, but having physical traits resembling that of Modern-day Dolphins. His skin darker than those of his lighter brethren, showing the tendrals of the Dark side wrapping from his head down past where a dark cape surrounded his neck. His eyes red with vengance, showing the years of his training consuming him.

He had little time for games, looking towards a Commander who immedietly starting doing his assigned task. His gaze befell a Captain, who then immedietly saluted and went to inform the Battle Fleet of Sub-Space coordinates. Hissing once more, he finally looked through the bridges viewscreens, displeased with the pace of things. He restrained himself, however, and noted that the fleets appeared to be in order.

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In the Darkness of space, a huge disturbance made itself known as waves of Sub-Space energy engulfed a region of space. Many minutes later, after streams of sub-space particles shot forth from each disturbance, ships streamed into existance in massive fleets. They had exited near a region of space defined as the "Mouth", and would instantly request orders from their Imperial Higher-Commanders.

Unified Sith

09-12-2005, 06:52

Death was an air bleeding wreck, barely alive but still alive enough for a final strike if the Godulans would give them their window...
If they had anything to say about that, the Imperials won't give them that chance as they send a final salvo into the MMII ship Death to kill it. (Still sounds weird)

The Commander of the Battleglobe, Dahak, knew it was time, he activated the enchenach drive, feeding off of the gravity well generated by the DSs FTLi, he was going to overload it, and then things would get messy, half of the AoN General Fleet was waiting for the Signal to move, and squadrons of Strike bombers and Shinig Spear Fighters, on loan from Gronde, were poised with them, along with an entire System Defense Corp, ready to jump in as soon as the FTLi was down... And, adding insult to injury, Task Fleet Famine waited with them, it had finally arrived from the talks, and now it would enter the system, unharmed, and fresh, with another load of APOLLO pods to loose on the enemy ships...
"Admiral, something is happening with our FTLi systems. They're going to overload!" A clone cried out.

Admiral Keldalri bit her lips. If they overload, the Death Star could be severely damaged...

But then, another fleet, the one that Imperial Command has sent, came.

Darth Hydrus stood on the bridge of the Confederate Pocket Battleship Armageddon, hissing through his dolphin-like muzzle. A delphinian by he was, a creature humanoid in nature, but having physical traits resembling that of Modern-day Dolphins. His skin darker than those of his lighter brethren, showing the tendrals of the Dark side wrapping from his head down past where a dark cape surrounded his neck. His eyes red with vengance, showing the years of his training consuming him.

He had little time for games, looking towards a Commander who immedietly starting doing his assigned task. His gaze befell a Captain, who then immedietly saluted and went to inform the Battle Fleet of Sub-Space coordinates. Hissing once more, he finally looked through the bridges viewscreens, displeased with the pace of things. He restrained himself, however, and noted that the fleets appeared to be in order.

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In the Darkness of space, a huge disturbance made itself known as waves of Sub-Space energy engulfed a region of space. Many minutes later, after streams of sub-space particles shot forth from each disturbance, ships streamed into existance in massive fleets. They had exited near a region of space defined as the "Mouth", and would instantly request orders from their Imperial Higher-Commanders.
"The reinforcements have arrived! I count...two thousand ships from the Confederacy! Darth Hydrus is requesting orders on his ship the Armageddon."

She could barely contain her glee. Finally, some good news after all! "Drop the FTLi to prevent them overloading. Whatever's happening, our mutual friends can handle it!"

"Aye, Ma'am!" And the FTLi was dropped for a moment.

"Order the Armageddon's fleet to move in and crush all resistance! Tell them to not use any torpedoes until the Mini Miehm Arbiters have been dealt with!"

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OOC: Anagonia has allowed me to take control of his fleet.

"My Lord, Admiral Keldalri has requested us to move in and crush all resistance." A comms officer reported.

"Thank you." The Sith Lord replied and barked orders to move the ships into multiple V formation and attack through the "Mouth".

Forming up, the hundreds of ships began opening fire on any enemies with their fusion pulse cannons and microwave pulse cannons and barrelled their way through the entrance to Thrashian space. Hammerhead space superiority fighters and Super Starfighters roared out of the hangar bays and moved into defensive formations around the capital ships until further orders were given.

The reinforcements might just save the Imperial fleet...

Parlim

09-12-2005, 09:28

Thrashia

09-12-2005, 09:35

Schwartz swore when he saw the arrival of so many more Imperial reinforcements at the front of the Mouth. He had to do something about it. The rest of the first fleet was there, but not enough to deal with them.

“Order the 1st Fleet and Admiral Khan to retreat within the mouth and into battle with the Imperial forces already there!” said Schwartz.

A few of the Praetorian cruisers who had engaged the Zactarn Prime vessels quickly made escape, and the majority of Admiral Khan’s forces did as well, but a few hung back, holding off the enemy pursuit. The ships shot through the Mouth, the Imperial Fleet close on their tails.

“Initiate order 626,” said Schwartz. He had decided to use it now, before the Mouth was overrun. The order was an electromagnetic signal that was sent to the massive millions of mines sitting in their positions. With quick computation of signals, the wall of mine spread, closing in on the Mouth. Hundreds smashed into and closed in on the pursuing Imperial forces, as thousands of more mines moved forward to close the gap.

“Now it will take some time for them to get to us,” said Schwartz. “The 1st fleet is to form into a wall formation, and hit the Imperial flank. I want Admiral Khan’s fleet to form into a wedge and drive upwards 20 degrees starboard and drive into the Khurgan forces, back up the Klington fleet there.”

“Yes sir,” said a comms officer.

The 9th Fleet was taking loses, but the sudden arrival of the Klington fleet had taken a large amount of thre pressure of them. Viersan cursed when he saw another of his SSDs blow up due to massive shield failure and a barraged from the Khurgan vessels.

“All fighters are to concentrate and move against those Khurgan ships, all Star Destroyers are to increase point-defense, and start concentrating in groups against Khurgan vessels as well,” he said.

The massive phalanx of the 2-4th fleets smashed into the side of the Imperial arrow formation. A leading group of Shadow cruisers, designed to be literal battering rams, smashing into Star Destroyers, impaling them upon their reinforced alloyed ‘tusks’. The massive amounts of Star Destroyers smashed their turbolasers into Chronosians and Imperial alike.

Chronosia

09-12-2005, 13:53

While the scattered attack vessels had fallen to enemy onslaught or the immense destructive powers of the voidshields; the main fleets fought on. Fighters died in firey balls of direst oblivion; smaller vessels were torn asunder; but as much as their enemies could muster; the Chronosians hurled more forth against their foes. Warp cannons howled in sirens song; missles roared across the void; exploding in immense fusion or gravitational blasts; the energy staining the void itself with their soaring malice. This was a race built for brutality and war...

Drop-pods; boarding torpedoes and gunships hurtled towards the enemy fleets; the crackling phase-arrays of the Dreadclaw's hungry to eat through the enemies hulls. Within, Terminators and Space Marines; Plague Marines and Noise Marines; each ready to fight and die for their Emperor. They owed him their lives; they would not embaress him by dieing this day! They would know no fear; but the Enemy would know Pain...

Teleporter arrays crackled and hissed; sending forth the troops through the void; Khornate berserkers rending into reality; striking with their mighty axes; Chaos Havocs lashing out with their immense Heavy Weapons; Obliterators, dripping with ichors; man and machine and flesh and weapons fused obscenely into one; Terminators; mighty armored juggernauts of destruction....All these things poured forth; appearing; and then being snatched away, to form elsewhere.

"This is Emperor Remiel; all Imperial Forces; all treacherous dogs; hear me now! THis war is one of ambition and foolishness; you all hold yourselves above the true objective; the Empire. In hatred and malice you would tear asunder ancient oaths; in jealousy and greed you would render our vows obsolete. You would open us up to the multitudes of enemies about us; even the GFFA plays its hand. There may come a time when we, the Imperial's shall be laid low; when all our bastions crumble under duress; when friends become foes, and our enemies circle like sharks! But not today! Today, we stand; today we fight. I fight not for Nightshade. I fight not for Thrashia; this day I fight not even for the Gods of Chaos. I fight for the Empire."

"The die is cast...We have issued our warnings; we strike...And we see what the fates shall weave for us."

Zactarn Prime

09-12-2005, 14:28

The Mini Miem ships were all around and the VSSD gone the fleet was getting destroyed, well all but the Fire. It had slapped on it's enhanced sheilds and was well protected by enemy fire. It fired it's Turbolaser turrets left and right. Ion cannons lit up the stars and the hull of the massive ship. Reinforcements were on their way. The large ship rocked. Enemy fire was not piercing the sheild but it was mving it and the ship. The shield mas fading and almost gone. There regular shields were charged up and ready but if the Enhanced lasted only this long the hope was grim. The Venator-class Star Destroyer suffered some damage but not much from the VSSD explosion. It fired it's 8 Heavy Turbolaser Turrets rapidly. There was an Eradicator Star Destriyer and two Executor-class Star Dreadnoughts on the way not far from the location.

The Humankind Abh

09-12-2005, 19:09

With the FTLi field down, Admiral Abriel did not wait for a response from the Thrashian Grand Admiral. The continuous signal was sent out for the fleet to prepare for Hyperspace jump as they moved into formation.

"I want the Rambirds ready. I want five star destroyers down in one pass."

"Yes you're highness."

Hundreds of Jumpoints opened along the lines of Thrashian fleets to bolster them. Coordinates were carefully planned so as to not to destroy allies but any enemy that was too close was destroyed utterly by the tear in space itself.

Still more ships came as Shadows danced through the planes of this level of space until they finally materialized to solidity. Five such vessels almost looked like sharks as there jet black bodies swam through the confines of space. Space was the home of the Abh and this was the feeding ground of these vessels with the ability to phase in and out of regular space.

The Admiral stood from his chair and approached the rail to look down at the tactical map. "Hold Rambirds back at the moment. Send half of the Victory Destroyers and Omega-X Destroyers over to the Klington fleet for support. All Victory Destroyers are to hold Level 2 firing for the moment and that goes the same for the Omega-X Destroyers. No Shadow Rays."

"Yes your Highness."

Twenty Victory Destroyers and thirty Omega-X Destroyers moved over to the Klington front and dug in. Fusion Beam Cannons poured out from the black Omega's along with yellow light from Heavy Quantum Discharges.

The White Stars and the remaining fleet stayed with the Thrashians and stave off any attacks.

Godular

09-12-2005, 19:51

It was at about this point that a group of TIEs, sent out to discern the location of the single Godulan Mako that was causing no end of consternation not only to the Imperials but to the Allied forces unwise enough to use their supers even after the Godulans' warning, rounded the dark side of the moon, and immediately opened fire on the streamlined arrowhead shape of the Mako Star Destroyer. The registry on the Mako was relayed to the main fleet as 'KILL THIS!'

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"Oh shit! We've been made! Jump!"

"We can't! That inhibitor overload the Miehmans pulled is playing hell with the calculations!"

"DAMMIT! Gunners at the ready! Focus shield strength to the aft and flanks! Break formation and haul ass!"

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And with that, the Mako surged forward, leaving its escorts behind as they would only slow it down. Makos were made for their speed as well as their firepower, and would be able to pace the pursuing TIEs sufficiently. The Mako headed with purpose towards the dark side of the Thrashian planet...

Mini Miehm

09-12-2005, 21:06

If they had anything to say about that, the Imperials won't give them that chance as they send a final salvo into the MMII ship Death to kill it. (Still sounds weird)

"Admiral, something is happening with our FTLi systems. They're going to overload!" A clone cried out.

Admiral Keldalri bit her lips. If they overload, the Death Star could be severely damaged...

But then, another fleet, the one that Imperial Command has sent, came.

"The reinforcements have arrived! I count...two thousand ships from the Confederacy! Darth Hydrus is requesting orders on his ship the Armageddon."

She could barely contain her glee. Finally, some good news after all! "Drop the FTLi to prevent them overloading. Whatever's happening, our mutual friends can handle it!"

"Order the Armageddon's fleet to move in and crush all resistance! Tell them to not use any torpedoes until the Mini Miehm Arbiters have been dealt with!"

"Hmm, the enemy has backup... Oh well, signal Heavy Metal 2, the FTLi is obviously down, and bring back the BG, we're going to hit them so hard they'll make it to Coruscant on momentum alone..."

Three more turbolaser strikes slammed into Death's battered hull, but that was all, as the suddenly appearing Famine and her Battlegroup translated into being in front of the battered fleets, and interposed their powerful wedges, Death was still a bleed wrec, and it had lost three Yamato batteries, but the rest of its heavy weapons were still active, most of its burst lasers were shatterd, but th Yamato Batteries lived on, and they needed the shield to come down, just long enough for a single strike...

Half of the Alliance Fleet emerged in the vicinity of the Khurganate Ships, and immediately unleashed their fury on them, every weapon they posessed blazed with power, sending coherent light and energy, along with massive slugs, out to swat the enemy from space.

Finally, a loaned System Defense Corps and a few squaqdrons of Shining Spears and Strike Bombers from Gronde appeared in the system, the system defense Corps headed for the planet, to better defend the area, while the bombers and fighters streaked towards the Death Star, they were tasked with its destruction...

No endorse

09-12-2005, 21:44

Khurgan

09-12-2005, 21:49

Unified Sith

09-12-2005, 22:02

The Republic stood fast, its shields now compromised in several places. The crew, however, cared not, continuing to work smoothly in an effort to keep the gargantuan vessel functional and combat-ready. Turbolaser bolts bounced off the perforated shields, some managing to punch through, scorching the once silver hull a dark black.

Despite the constant battering, both ships held their line, keepings a steady stream of fire upon the encroaching Star Destroyers. Aboard the bridge of the Republic, Admiral Griffen watched the battle intently.

He almost laughed out loud as an ensign reported a single Star Destroyer breaking formation and entering in a ramming course. Bemused, he issued the order, “Focus all our firepower upon the bridge of that Star Destroyer, the Lonestar’s as well. Adjust our heading, so the blow will glance off.”

The deck guns of both ships stop momentarily, retargeting the lone SD’s bridge and pummeling it with heavy barrages of weapons fire, scoring several critical hits on the area around it. Meanwhile, more Fusion Missiles left the tubes, sending a swarm of several hundred towards the main SD group.
The Star Destroyer had its bridge broken clean off, killing the captain, but it still drained all power to engines and accelerated to relativistic speeds as the secondary bridge took control. It continued to bear down on the Republic, Alpha Striking with all weapons.

Schwartz swore when he saw the arrival of so many more Imperial reinforcements at the front of the Mouth. He had to do something about it. The rest of the first fleet was there, but not enough to deal with them.

“Order the 1st Fleet and Admiral Khan to retreat within the mouth and into battle with the Imperial forces already there!” said Schwartz.

A few of the Praetorian cruisers who had engaged the Zactarn Prime vessels quickly made escape, and the majority of Admiral Khan’s forces did as well, but a few hung back, holding off the enemy pursuit. The ships shot through the Mouth, the Imperial Fleet close on their tails.

“Initiate order 626,” said Schwartz. He had decided to use it now, before the Mouth was overrun. The order was an electromagnetic signal that was sent to the massive millions of mines sitting in their positions. With quick computation of signals, the wall of mine spread, closing in on the Mouth. Hundreds smashed into and closed in on the pursuing Imperial forces, as thousands of more mines moved forward to close the gap.

“Now it will take some time for them to get to us,” said Schwartz. “The 1st fleet is to form into a wall formation, and hit the Imperial flank. I want Admiral Khan’s fleet to form into a wedge and drive upwards 20 degrees starboard and drive into the Khurgan forces, back up the Klington fleet there.”

“Yes sir,” said a comms officer.
"Sir, mines incoming!" An aide yelled.

"No matter. Have all ships accelerate and their shields reinforced. I will be in my chambers. Admiral, you have the helm. Once we're through, begin flanking the newcomer forces." Darth Hydrus ordered and with a sweep of his cloak, he walked into his personal chambers. Here, he can meditate without interference.

The Dark Lord summoned the dark powers of the Force with all the anger and rage he can muster. He reached out into the minefields...

And mines suddenly began to spontaneously explode. The ones ahead of them and the ones incoming as well. Nevertheless, a few ships were lost to the mines, but it was a drop in the bucket compared to the huge numbers brought to bear.

The massive phalanx of the 2-4th fleets smashed into the side of the Imperial arrow formation. A leading group of Shadow cruisers, designed to be literal battering rams, smashing into Star Destroyers, impaling them upon their reinforced alloyed ‘tusks’. The massive amounts of Star Destroyers smashed their turbolasers into Chronosians and Imperial alike.
Nevertheless, the Star Destroyers continued firing into enemy ranks even as they were smashed and impaled like mad. Clonetroopers on jump packs rushed out into the airless vacuum and moved towards bridges to take them out. The Death Star itself accelerated to ramming speed and used its tractor beams to drag enemy ships into its shields while thousands of turbolasers continued to dish out death into the enemy ranks.

It was at about this point that a group of TIEs, sent out to discern the location of the single Godulan Mako that was causing no end of consternation not only to the Imperials but to the Allied forces unwise enough to use their supers even after the Godulans' warning, rounded the dark side of the moon, and immediately opened fire on the streamlined arrowhead shape of the Mako Star Destroyer. The registry on the Mako was relayed to the main fleet as 'KILL THIS!'

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"Oh shit! We've been made! Jump!"

"We can't! That inhibitor overload the Miehmans pulled is playing hell with the calculations!"

"DAMMIT! Gunners at the ready! Focus shield strength to the aft and flanks! Break formation and haul ass!"

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And with that, the Mako surged forward, leaving its escorts behind as they would only slow it down. Makos were made for their speed as well as their firepower, and would be able to pace the pursuing TIEs sufficiently. The Mako headed with purpose towards the dark side of the Thrashian planet...
The hundred TIEs, with orders to destroy the Mako upon detection, accelerated after the Mako and shot their cannons at it, and some even tried to ram it.

Kyanges

09-12-2005, 22:07

Mini Miehm

09-12-2005, 22:22

FTLi was down, the fleet could move again...

The hail of fire from the Meihm impacted on the armada, shields flashing green, warpfire gouting out into space from the fields. Flames ignited along the hull of one of the Cataclysms, its crew incinerated as the plasma generator vented itself into the crew compartments. But almost as soon as the AoN vessels had begun firing, the fleet vanished in a puff of flames, their Cathedrals translating them into the Warp, leaving the burning hulk of the Cataclysm and a single Firewyrm carrier, its cathedral smashed by enemy fire, behind. The Tzaanlord aboard scowled, and ripped his way into the Warp, returning to Hecuba and leaving the crew of his doomed vessel to their fates. The crew continued to poor fire into the Meihm fleet, concentrating their fire on smaller vessels, hoping to cripple as many as they could with their lance fire.

Immaterium

Helion smiled as the timelessness of the Warp spread throughout his fleet. Thanks to the gifts of Tzeentch, every second would stretch into an hour, granting the Khurganate forces time to enact their plan. Servitors clambered into the ventral cargo bays, hauling with them the viral warheads from the torpedo magazine. Within an hour, over a thousand servitors lay within the cargo bays of each vessel, along with a single viral warhead and a pair of cyclotronic torpedoes.

Materium

One second later, a huge arc of fire poured out in the sky of the Thrashian world. A hundred vessels skimmed the atmosphere, their hulls shimmering with trapped fire. A hundred cargo bays opening, raining a fine red mist down into the planet's air. And hidden deep in the mist coming from each shi['s belly, a cyclotronic warhead, counting down...

Hundreds of Warp Gates opened in front of the descending ships, only, they couldn't stop them all, 12 were too large to fit through the gates, but the rest were transported to their final destination, joining their torpedoes deep in the heart of the star....

Thrashia Prime was doomed, there was no way they could save the planet now, they were leaving, Death set her scuttling charges, and her crew fled to the boat bays, retreating to the other ships, before her fusion plant blew, removing any trace of her from existence...

The AoN had been too late, they had destroyed only a few ships, and lost a few in return, now they fled, alongside their Miehmish ounterparts...

Only the Carriers remained, and the Leviathans, now they made a microjump to the planets orbitals, and began pouring every waepon they posessed into ther planet, it was a doomed world, and the plague could not be allowed to spread... 120 Leviathans, and 600 Carriers poured cannon and KEW fire into the planets surface...

OOC: Sorry guys, no way to stop it... So the system is lost, I'm outta here. The Plague would have destroyed the planet, I just accelerated the tuimetable and gave them all clean deaths...

Thrashia

09-12-2005, 23:16

FTLi was down, the fleet could move again...

The hail of fire from the Meihm impacted on the armada, shields flashing green, warpfire gouting out into space from the fields. Flames ignited along the hull of one of the Cataclysms, its crew incinerated as the plasma generator vented itself into the crew compartments. But almost as soon as the AoN vessels had begun firing, the fleet vanished in a puff of flames, their Cathedrals translating them into the Warp, leaving the burning hulk of the Cataclysm and a single Firewyrm carrier, its cathedral smashed by enemy fire, behind. The Tzaanlord aboard scowled, and ripped his way into the Warp, returning to Hecuba and leaving the crew of his doomed vessel to their fates. The crew continued to poor fire into the Meihm fleet, concentrating their fire on smaller vessels, hoping to cripple as many as they could with their lance fire.

Immaterium

Helion smiled as the timelessness of the Warp spread throughout his fleet. Thanks to the gifts of Tzeentch, every second would stretch into an hour, granting the Khurganate forces time to enact their plan. Servitors clambered into the ventral cargo bays, hauling with them the viral warheads from the torpedo magazine. Within an hour, over a thousand servitors lay within the cargo bays of each vessel, along with a single viral warhead and a pair of cyclotronic torpedoes.

Materium

One second later, a huge arc of fire poured out in the sky of the Thrashian world. A hundred vessels skimmed the atmosphere, their hulls shimmering with trapped fire. A hundred cargo bays opening, raining a fine red mist down into the planet's air. And hidden deep in the mist coming from each shi['s belly, a cyclotronic warhead, counting down...

It was a last ditch effort. Colonel Fierce, the commanding officer of the defense of Thrashia Prime had seen the approaching vessels as they prepared to smash into the surface. How they had gotten past the main shield he did not know.

He was about to respond when he saw the massive warp tunnels open and a large part of the decending ships disapeared, just as they had arrived. Yet several more were still there.

Without waiting for orders from Schwartz, Fierce initiated the the Ion Defense Grid. The twelve decending craft were landing in the 5th quadrant, close to the main capital. Just as they where less than a few hudred miles from the planet, hundreds of sections of ground tore apart. Massive Ion cannon globes appeared. And using a pinch of all the massive fushion reactors that Thrashia Prime had to fuel its cities, gave the awsome guns power.

Hundreds of red large blasts slammed into the ships, disabling them, shiels unaffective against such a powerfilled barraged of ion cannon fire. Then from a centralized AA tower, twelve missiles launched. Simutaneosly, the powerful ground shields iniated and covered the lands from above.

Each one of the missiles, some 20 meters in length, and 10 in diameter, smashed into their respective targets, now nothing but falling hunks of metal. Each one carried a massive pro-nuclear fushion bomb.

Such was the force of the explosion that section of the shield even failed under the massive onslaught that the Thrashian AA system wielded. Several acres of land were turned to first desert then glass.

Colonel Fierce was gripped his desk hard, his knuckles turning white with the effort. He kept yelling at the techs to put all the power into the shields.

When the smoke cleared, there was little left of the Khurgan vessels, some large chunks of metal came crashing down only to be abolished by the powerful ground shield, other pieces having been launched into the atmosphere were shot down by turbolaser crews.

Colonel Fierce fell into his chair, exhausted, even though he had not done any physical labour. A pict screen message from Admiral Schwartz came on. The Grand Admiral smiled. "Good work Colonel, you've saved our planet."

"Just doing my duty sir, just doing my duty."

Gaia Rodina

09-12-2005, 23:20

Far away, on the distant planet of Kalimdor, an old creature's eyes opened slightly.
"So...this is what His Emminence spoke of. Indeed, it would appear we have no choice. Such acts cannot go uncondemned."

The creature shifted its massive, 12-foot frame and ordered to be put in contact with Draenor.

Soon...the beastial alliance would strike. Not now, but soon.

Parlim

10-12-2005, 00:22

Admiral Griffen watched with mixed amusement and horror as the Star Destroyer, crippled by cannon fire, used its last remaining power to speed it's collision course towards the Republic. The deck guns showed no mercy, pummeling the incoming cruiser with a ferocity not yet seen.

The effort, however, was largely in vain. The SD had gained too much momentum, no amount of weapons fire would stop it. The Admiral turned quickly on his heel, and shouted at the top of his lungs, “All hands, brace for impa-!” The sentence had not yet left his mouth when the Imperial craft collided with the Republic's rear section.

The nose of the SD crumpled immediately, the hull of the Parlimian Vessel impacting suddenly, then buckling under the strain. The SD had hit the Republic at an angle, its momentum carrying it further and slamming its side into the Republic. The Star Destroyer created a huge gash as it traveled down the side of the mighty vessel. Decks crumpled and tore apart as the Imperial vessel passed, a resounding screech of metal on metal deafening the crewmembers.

The Star Destroyer finally reached the end of the Republic, clipping one of the four massive engines, spilling energy as hot and as powerful as a white dwarf star onto the grayed and battered hull, which instantly began to superheat, boiling the surviving crewmembers of the SD alive.

The Imperial ship, still carried by its momentum, drifted away from the Republic, and was littered by cannon-fire minutes later by the nearby Lonestar.

Extreme damage has been done to the Parlimian battleship. Its shields perforated, hull punctured, weapons inoperable, and a huge kilometer long gash in the hull running down the nine kilometer long body. The fourth engine, knocked violently from its housing, sprayed radioactive fuel into space, igniting it moments afterwards and exploding, taking the third engine with it.

The Republic, wracked by power shortages (the main powerplants having been destroyed along with the third and fourth engines), slowly went offline. The lights emanating from the deck windows shut off one by one, the blinding glow of the surviving dual engines fading to black, shields flickered away and died, and for the first time in the battle, the massive deck guns ceased firing.

The Parlimian ship went dark.

Minutes passed, then the loud groaning of the secondary generators restarting drowned out all other sound. The two remaining engines popped and jumped to life, and a the glow from the deck windows resumed, albeit dimmed. In the compromised sections, airtight doors slid into place, protecting the rest of the ship from the vacuum of space.

On the bridge, the Admiral got shakily to his feet. “Report.” An ensign rattled off a long list of non-functioning systems. To his great relief, life support and propulsion were not mentioned. “Full retreat, best speed to behind the Thrashian lines. Get the Lonestar to extend their shields over us and follow. I think we've played our hand in this battle, boys. Time to go home.”

Slowly, the Republic lumbered back behind allied lines, eventually safe from enemies guns, the Lonestar opened a wormhole to the Parlimian system. Before the damaged, scorched, and crippled battleship disappeared into the vortex, Admiral Griffen sent a final message.

“Admiral Schwartz, we're done here. We've lost one of our escorts, the other is reporting damage to critical areas. The Republic is crippled, no good in a fight, over half her crew are dead or missing somewhere in the wreckage. However, we're still offering you aid. The Lonestar will remain behind and keep a wormhole to our home, the Horizon System open, as long as is possible. You are welcomed to send any and all of your ships through, we'll harbor as many of you as we possibly can, and there are planets around our system ripe for colonization. Please extend this offer to the remaining allied forces, as well. It was a glorious fight.”

With that, the Republic entered the wormhole and left the battle.

Klington

10-12-2005, 02:44

As the Strykers entered firing range of the enormous Khurganate fleet, thousands of lance batteries spewed forth burning death at the much smaller Klingtonian vessels. Even as the boarding pods approached the hull, the Warp Fields opened up, devouring pods whole, some richocheting off of the void shields, countless others intercepted by the untold amount of CIWS platforms studding the hull. Those that managed to break through and managed to disgorge their human cargo merely met their end at the hands of the Firewyrms and Purgation Servitors patrolling the halls.

The railgun shells were for the most part deflected by the heavy void shields, flying off into space or back towards their originators. Still, a few managed to find a vulnerability in the warp fields, squeeze through the morass of void shields to impact the hull, and penetrate the inanely thick armor. Streaks of fire spun out across the void as one of the lucky shells penetrated into the Warp Cathedral of a Firewyrm carrier, setting fire to several of its decks.

All the while the Warmaster watched and grinned. All goes according to plan... Sending a mental command to his Tzaanlords, a hundred minds began to build power, a hundred alpha-plus level psykers channeling their power, a hundred men enhanced beyond their wildest dreams by the God of Magic. Alone, each man could destroy an army. Together, their psychic power was nigh-unstoppable. Bringing their will to bear, their tremendous mental energy was brought down on the crews of the Klingtonian vessels, like a man crushing a beetle under a powerfist.

But the Klingtonian warriors had a 'magic' too. It was called logic, and they would be damned if they were gonna let some inferior race use their voodoo to break the Klingtonian will. So the battle continued, this time the other Klingtonian forces were moving into help finish off the enemy...
And they waited for the lines to merge, for the Klingtonians were keeping a present for them there...

_____________

The Styrkers were being decimated, but then again, that was there job, to weaken the living shit out of the enemy so the main fleet could do some real damage. They weren't called the Suicidal Strykers for nothing.
The Enemy was a tough one, but the Strykers were begining to take effect on them, there fleet was weaking...
Now that they had made their enterance shots they began to pick off the enemy one ship at a time starting with the big and going down.

OOC: Khurgan, please don't tell me how many casualties I lose, thats my job. Also, just to clear some things up, the rail guns and things fire a weapon that puts out a strong magnetic field which sometimes scrambles shield systems and the same goes for the boarding pods of the Strykers. Also, the people who are coming off aren't gonna be killed too easily. They are not human They are Kelnahni, a race that has rock-hard skin and 3 times the strength of a human being(as they lived on a planet with 3 times the gravity of Earth.) Also they are Force Sensitive and they were an armor similar to the Warhammer armor. These are guys are supposed to be tough they're made to weaken the shit out of the enemy for the main fleet, so its not gonna be a pushover, but to balance it out there is a limited number of them. Ok, all cleared up? Thanks.

The Humankind Abh

10-12-2005, 04:48

Commander Elbryan began taking his men into smaller skirmishes now that they were free to move as they pleased. Now that the Klington fleet was secured and Khurgan on the retreat, the Omega Destroyers shimmered back into the shadows of space and reappeared among the Thrashian lines. However the three kilometer Victory Destroyers stayed with the Klington fleet as an added boost.

Admiral Abriel saw that it was time for his men to get into action. "Final testing phase of the new ships. Rambirds are to pick a star destroyer at random and destroy it."

"Yes your Highness."

The Rambirds swam through space like sharks and then plunged into the depths as they shimmered and disappeared using the hyperspace tap. They shimmered and reappeared among Star Destroyers in the Empire's lines. The nose slid apart down the middle to reveal a large Ion cannon embedded in the one kilometer ships. Large blue ion fire poured from the ships to bring down their shields. The nose of the Rambird closed as it backed up for a little room. The great fins on the rear violently shook back and forth to propell them towards the bridges of Star Destroyers at the speed of darkness. Underneath all that bio armor was some of the hardest armor known, highly refined crystaline armor that was braced with reinforced steel. They were here to prove if they deserved the name Rambird as they flew beyond speeds thought possible at the bridges of five different star destroyers.

Zactarn Prime

10-12-2005, 05:06

The No Endorse fleet may have been down, but it sure as heck wasn't out. And the lowering of an FTLi anywhere near a sidejumper-equipt No Endorse fleet was a situation that was just asking for pain.

The fleet charged at the Zactarn Prime fleet, intent on beating them strait out of the ring. Hundreds of capitol-ship class Nova-torpeedos hit the deep, and huge beam cannons illuminated the blackness of space.

The entire fleet concentrated on the Providence class carrier. The ship had no hope against the combined power of the small fleet bearing down on it. They appeared about to ram it, but then most of the fleet sidejumped several hundred clicks to the right, opening up a fierce broadside. A single Aardvark kept its course though, acelerating as fast as possible and slamming its incredibly armored bow into the craft's flank. Immediatly after contact, the ship adjusted its throttle, tore itself free, and began raking the enemy with beam fire at point blank range.

As the fleet made the jump, half of the cruisers and the sole dreadnought shifted their attention to the Vernator class star destroyer, their cannon weaving intricate patterns over the enemy hull. The ships danced around the craft. Frigates hung in close, causing as much pain as possible to enemy fighter squadrons and using their main weapons to support their larger bretheren.

Strike craft swarmed at enemy fighter squadrons, unleashing their deadly payloads. Their side-jumpers were working overtime, constantly slinging themselves to and fro to harass the enemy. Even as their numbers started to go down, they continued to fight as hard as they could.

The fleet rocked and the Venator-class Star Destroyer was using the last of it's shields. The shields had taken 86% damage and were giving. Thing looked grim. The Providence-class Carrier Destroyer the Fire, had a dinged and dented hull but it was not yet pierced. The Eradicator-Star Destroyer had arrived with the two Executor Star Dreadnoughts behind. Then out from behind the three massive ships were cloaked beheamoths. They were approaching secretly only known to the Dreadnoughts and the Destroyer. The Navy didn't even dispatch them. They were unauthorized to be there yet they were.

The ships that came were: a Sabaoth Destroyer with it's 6 capital ship turrets and 11 anti-starfighter guns, a Kaloth Battlecruiser with it's 44 turbolasers and 24 laser cannons and 2 tractor beam projectors, a Defender-class Star Destroyer with 80 turbolaser and 20 Ion Cannons and 8 concussion missile tubes and 8 tractor beab projectors, and they were all flying around a Lucrehulk-class Battleship with it's 42 quadlaser placements and 9600 Vulture-droid Starfighters and 50 C-9979 Landingcrafts. The massive ships soared stright for the charging No Endorse fleet. They were to help and kill at all costs.

No endorse

10-12-2005, 05:29

The No Endorse ships detected the Zactarn Prime ships as soon as they entered the system. All of the vessels fired off everything they could at the Vernator, except for two cruisers, which concentrated soley on the Providence carrier Fire, launching torpeedos and firing beam cannons at point blank range.

However, when the enemy reinforcements got into range, the entire fleet sidejumped far out of range, and fired off Nova torpeedos at what was left of the Providence and Vernator. They wanted to finish the job they had started, but didn't have a death wish.

As soon as they'd finished off the first two craft, they would play cat-and-mouse with the larger Executor class ships. They would jump in, fire off multiple Nova-torpeedos, and jump out before enemy turbolasers could get a weapons lock. It was an intricate dance: in and out, to the main AoN fleet and back. All the fun would end when the FTLi was re-activated, but for now, sidejumpers kept the fleet alive.

Zactarn Prime

10-12-2005, 05:46

The Providence was doomed. In seconds it blew up. The Vernator was swaying and was heavily dented. It swayed and rocked. It then fired all it's weapons at full harged as it was being blasted and it then released all of it's TIE FIghters and awaited death. Then the Sabaoth Destroyer targeted the little speedsters. It had highly advanced targeting and used it's Anti-Starfighter Guns and smacked across the sky making booms just coming out of the gun turret.

Unified Sith

10-12-2005, 06:25

"Ma'am. Several enemy factions appear to be leaving the battlefield, including Mini Miehm."

Things are getting better and better... "Keep an eye on the scopes. Make sure they're truly gone. What other factions are left?"

"No endorse, Kyanges, Klington, Humankind Abh, and of course, Thrashia. There may be one or two other factions left, but they're either nearly destroyed or inconsequential."

Against Imperial, Khurgan, Chronosia and Zactarn Prime forces...hmm. "Signal Darth Hydrus. Have his fleet split up and attack Abh forces and assist Zactarn Prime with dealing with No Endorse." Admiral Keldalri ordered.

Neither Abh nor No endorse were the only fleets that had a monopoly on ship-portation techniques. Darth Hydrus' Navy had the ability to space-fold tactically as well, using their Sub-space engines.

"You heard the Admiral! Fleet of the Defiance will Sub-space to the No endorse positions. Fleet of the Vengance will assault Abh positions. Rest of the fleet will maintain position with the Armageddon!" The Admiral in charge of the fleet ordered as Darth Hydrus returned from his chambers. "Lord Hydrus has the bridge."

(OOC: Thrashia, don't forget to post losses for the mines from Hydrus' attack when you return.)

The 400 ships of the Defiance Hailstorm battlecruiser fleet then powered up their Sub-space engines and winked out, reappearing astride No endorse ships and pumping broadside after broadside of torpedoes, ion cannons and fusion cannons into the sides of the enemy ships. They have come to assist Zactarn Prime and they hoped they weren't too late. Super StarFighters of the same fleet zoomed into the brawl and began picking off enemy fighters and lighter capital ships.

Commander Elbryan began taking his men into smaller skirmishes now that they were free to move as they pleased. Now that the Klington fleet was secured and Khurgan on the retreat, the Omega Destroyers shimmered back into the shadows of space and reappeared among the Thrashian lines. However the three kilometer Victory Destroyers stayed with the Klington fleet as an added boost.

Admiral Abriel saw that it was time for his men to get into action. "Final testing phase of the new ships. Rambirds are to pick a star destroyer at random and destroy it."

"Yes your Highness."

The Rambirds swam through space like sharks and then plunged into the depths as they shimmered and disappeared using the hyperspace tap. They shimmered and reappeared among Star Destroyers in the Empire's lines. The nose slid apart down the middle to reveal a large Ion cannon embedded in the one kilometer ships. Large blue ion fire poured from the ships to bring down their shields. The nose of the Rambird closed as it backed up for a little room. The great fins on the rear violently shook back and forth to propell them towards the bridges of Star Destroyers at the speed of darkness. Underneath all that bio armor was some of the hardest armor known, highly refined crystaline armor that was braced with reinforced steel. They were here to prove if they deserved the name Rambird as they flew beyond speeds thought possible at the bridges of five different star destroyers.
The five Star Destroyers were certainly taken out of play...and yet they still continued to fight due to secondary bridges, though effectiveness was reduced quite a bit. Then powerful tractor beams and gravity wells of the Death Star began to try and snag the Rambirds into place so that they could be disabled by Immobilizer ion cannons and then blasted into oblivion by turbolasers of the fleet. If that didn't work quickly enough, there was always the singularity torpedoes.

Meanwhile, the Abh also found themselves on the recieving end of a Sub-space jump as the Vengeance and four hundred Aries-class Heavy Cruisers appeared astride enemy ships lashed out with broadside salvoes of fusion and microwave beamcannons as well as swarms of torpedoes.

(OOC: You know, none of my vessels would be left behind. The engines on all of my ships allow them to maneuver the same as, or even better than star fighters. I've only been toning that capability down to avoid cries of wankery, and godmodding. Your escorts can still do their jobs.

Also, US, have I simply been ignored?)
OOC: No. I just had to wade through a few other major factions of the Thrashian alliance. Now that I'm free...remind me of what's up please?

Kyanges

10-12-2005, 06:32

(OOC: Np. Here's the post, quoted. As you already know, a lot happened between this post and the rest. I was kind of waiting for your response, but as such, fell far behind...)

(OOC: Won’t be able to make any good fleet movements. RL, ‘nuf said.)

IC:

Each of the 35 Shade cruisers ceased their attack, and immediately dropped back into cloak following the furious counter attack that ensued. At least they had completed their mission. The few vessels they had disabled were already good enough for the time being. The more they stopped, the easier the job allied fleets would have. As they cloaked, a few were hit by enemy counter fire before they could move off. The few Shades or so that were hit had their cloaks knocked out, forcing them to try to escape in plain view. The rest that escaped moved off to another ship, and waited to repeat their attack.

The 20 Arc destroyers continued to hold below their targets, pouring additional fire into the fighter bays, and other critical targets on the hapless vessel above them. The enemy counter fire was once again fierce, but Arc Destroyers were designed explicitly for this kind of punishment. Their PPAD shields raised a physical wall of Corrollium around them; forming a wall of matter rated to stand up to the pressures of an average star for a few seconds. If anything, the Immobilizers would have a hard time penetrating the tough barrier.

In response to the reorganization of the enemy fleet, all fighters changed their tactics, from attacking everything in sight, to only fighters. Each fighter team continued cloaking, trapping enemy fighters in tractor beams, pounding them into submission, then recloaking and moving on to the next fighter.

Each of the 30 Glint Assault vessels offloaded 100 ES Marines each pod. Rather than charging blindly into battle with the hordes of clones, they stayed near their pods, setting up auto turrets, and letting them take on the enemy. As many as 300 ES Marines were nonetheless taken down by the sheer number of enemy reinforcements massing against their entry point.

Te’kel was commanding the battle with decent skill, though the more could be done…

“Where are my reinforcements?” He demanded.

“ACE-Recon reports that the fleets returning from the Yevon rebellion have just finished their crew rotations, and will arrive in a few minutes.”

As they spoke, the bulk of the Eshirian fleet was now ready for the fight. Thousands of Eshirian reinforcements were now mid-jump to the battle. Adding to the fleet,

-200 Preamesus Battlecarriers: 700 fighters each
-250 Shade Cruisers.
-30 Arc Destroyers
-1,000 UL class Ultra-lights. (12 fighters each. Tiny vessel.)
-2,000 various supply ships.

“What about Exas-1?...”

“It’ll be ready, sir.”

Accompanying the modest force was Exas-1… Something like the Terran battleglobes of MM, though decidedly not quite as impressive, it was still a powerful asset of the Eshirian Fleet, and therefore would be tagging along. There was only one such station constructed, though more would follow. This particular Station was fresh from battling Yevon Forces inside Neo Zeta. When it arrived, it would soon add to the already impressive technological advantage the Eshirian Fleet already possessed over its more conventional though still highly formidable Imperial adversaries. Time to arrival: 10 minutes.

No endorse

10-12-2005, 06:50

Unified Sith

10-12-2005, 07:12

OOC: Thanks. Looks like a lot. *cracks fingers*

(OOC: Won’t be able to make any good fleet movements. RL, ‘nuf said.)

IC:

Each of the 35 Shade cruisers ceased their attack, and immediately dropped back into cloak following the furious counter attack that ensued. At least they had completed their mission. The few vessels they had disabled were already good enough for the time being. The more they stopped, the easier the job allied fleets would have. As they cloaked, a few were hit by enemy counter fire before they could move off. The few Shades or so that were hit had their cloaks knocked out, forcing them to try to escape in plain view. The rest that escaped moved off to another ship, and waited to repeat their attack.
Cloaks would deter most ships, and indeed smaller Imperial ships. But not the Imperial Star Destroyers, with mass detectors, or the Death Star, which could easily punch through cloaks with its powerful sensors backed up by a huge reactor. While fire effectiveness was reduced some, the sheer mass of Imperial firepower means that a hell of a lot of turbolasers and ion cannons will still be hitting the Shade cruisers, cloak or no cloak. Still, their counterattack wasted several Imperial Star destroyers in return.

The 20 Arc destroyers continued to hold below their targets, pouring additional fire into the fighter bays, and other critical targets on the hapless vessel above them. The enemy counter fire was once again fierce, but Arc Destroyers were designed explicitly for this kind of punishment. Their PPAD shields raised a physical wall of Corrollium around them; forming a wall of matter rated to stand up to the pressures of an average star for a few seconds. If anything, the Immobilizers would have a hard time penetrating the tough barrier.
The Immobilizers all have ion cannons and red ion beamcannons, specifically designed to disable enemy ships, especially when concentrated on one target at a time.

In response to the reorganization of the enemy fleet, all fighters changed their tactics, from attacking everything in sight, to only fighters. Each fighter team continued cloaking, trapping enemy fighters in tractor beams, pounding them into submission, then recloaking and moving on to the next fighter.
Telemetry from Immobilizer Star Destroyers allowed the TIEs to half-way detect the cloaks and use their massive numbers to try and counteract the enemy fighters. The Immobilizers themselves used sweeps of their vaunted red ion beamcannons to slash and disable enemy fighter ranks for easier kills. Still, dozens of fighters were killed in this manner at a time.

Each of the 30 Glint Assault vessels offloaded 100 ES Marines each pod. Rather than charging blindly into battle with the hordes of clones, they stayed near their pods, setting up auto turrets, and letting them take on the enemy. As many as 300 ES Marines were nonetheless taken down by the sheer number of enemy reinforcements massing against their entry point.
Grenade launcher troopers lashed out at the enemy with high-explosive grenades and small missiles, while super battle droids and Pentovan battle droids (http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b269/Coredia/f_droid1.jpg) moved in to support the clones engage the enemy with high ROF blasters and for the Pentovan droids, powerful grenades from their right arms and antiorganic radiation blasters on their left. There are only a few on each ship, but they make up for that in power.

Te’kel was commanding the battle with decent skill, though the more could be done…

“Where are my reinforcements?” He demanded.

“ACE-Recon reports that the fleets returning from the Yevon rebellion have just finished their crew rotations, and will arrive in a few minutes.”

As they spoke, the bulk of the Eshirian fleet was now ready for the fight. Thousands of Eshirian reinforcements were now mid-jump to the battle. Adding to the fleet,

-200 Preamesus Battlecarriers: 700 fighters each
-250 Shade Cruisers.
-30 Arc Destroyers
-1,000 UL class Ultra-lights. (12 fighters each. Tiny vessel.)
-2,000 various supply ships.

“What about Exas-1?...”

“It’ll be ready, sir.”

Accompanying the modest force was Exas-1… Something like the Terran battleglobes of MM, though decidedly not quite as impressive, it was still a powerful asset of the Eshirian Fleet, and therefore would be tagging along. There was only one such station constructed, though more would follow. This particular Station was fresh from battling Yevon Forces inside Neo Zeta. When it arrived, it would soon add to the already impressive technological advantage the Eshirian Fleet already possessed over its more conventional though still highly formidable Imperial adversaries. Time to arrival: 10 minutes.
"Enemy reinforcements will be arriving soon."

"Any numbers?"

"Unknown, but a large mass will be arriving as well."

"Very well. Upon arrival, hit them with a salvo of singularity torps." The Admiral ordered.

"Aye, ma'am."

Unified Sith

10-12-2005, 07:23

The Zactarn Prime PDGs did little against the ships of the No Endorse fleet. They continued their dance, jumping and firing about like lunatics. One cruiser even had the gall to jump right beside the Vernator, shoot at a range of less than a few hundred meters, and get back out of there. The Vernator's full barrage did score some hits however, and several fighters were destroyed.

Then the Unified Sith fleet moved in right beside the No Endorse fleet, opening up with everything. The NES Godsend detected this rift immediatly, and pulled itself and the rest of its fleet with it as far away from the enemy as seemed reasonable. However, it was too late for a cruiser and three of the frigates, they were crushed immediatly, as well as several fighters and bombers. On their way out, several bombers had fired some Nova-bombs at the enemy fleets.

The entire force winked out yet again and popped back into realspace near the Eshirian fleet.

"Hey there guys. Can you spare some shots at our new friends?" At the slightest hint that the enemy was going to tac-jump near them, they were ready to jump just outside the system and re-evaluate from there.
In a dance that would prove to be interestingly irritating for the enemy forces, the Defiance fleet, despite a couple of damaged shields from the bombers, retargeted the enemy again, found that their quarry the Godsend and other No endorse ships were near the Eshirian fleet and decided to kill two birds with one stone. Or fleets in this case. They winked out again and upon reentry, lashed tractor beams upon the enemy ships to try and prevent them running again. The Defiance and three battlecruisers used this tactic to try and snag the Godsend and pound the command ship to space dust.

Kyanges:
And they targeted the Eshiran ships as well with salvoes of fusion cannons and torpedoes.

Zactarn Prime

10-12-2005, 08:13

The Vernator then slammed on their fully charged shields and zipped away from the battlefield. On it's way out it was hit but not to hard. It got out with only 23% damage to the shields. It's hull was battered, tattered, but not torn.It was out of the way safely...for now. As for the others. The Kaloth Battlecruiser fired both of it's Tractor Beams at the Sidejumper of No Endorse in hope of catching and freezing it momentarily.

Thrashia

10-12-2005, 17:53

"Doctor Fiudski! What can you tell us about this gas that those damned Khurgan's dropped?" asked Schwartz. The best of Thrashia's medical and anti-viral experts had been rounded up. At least 1/10th of the planet had been covered with a thick red gas. Several thousand civilians had been killed upon it touching them, or them breathing it in. In an attempt to stiffle the spread of it. Colonel Fierce had made a large and powerful ionized shield around the infected areas, and succeded in sealing off most of the gas, but it was still there.

"I admiral do not know. It's a substance we've not come across before in our research. I would think that it perhaps can be clensed, but it would take a massive amount of time. Which I believe we have little."

Schwartz nodded at the greyed old doctor. He turned to his command crew. "How are our shields holding up?"

A tech turned. "Well sir, we've yet only encountered the spread ships of Chronosia, our mass of lasers have been quick to take them out, but I think the fleet is at least half-way gone."

"Yes...but I need to know-"

"Admiral!" shouted a comms officer. The man had a look of horrorified surprise on his face. Shcwartz nearly ran over. "What?"

"Its captain Rivan, aboard the Conquest," he said feebly. The Conquest was Schwartz own Soveriegn command ship. It had been engaged in fighting ever since the begginning.

"What, is it down?" asked Schwartz.

"No sir, listen." the tech pressed a button on the consul and the voice of Captain Rivan echoed through the chamber.

"...and it is beyond my patience and honor to await the destruction of our noble nation. We have fought hard, and we have bloodied the enemy. We have had our allies support us. But it is now time to end it. I salute the Grand Admiral Schwartz, and to the great Emperor Shaduam, may he live forever."

The line went dead. "Sir, he was broadcasting to the entire fleet," said the tech.

"Why?" asked Schwartz. He was disturbed. He knew Rivan quite well, he was a hard nosed captain and one who was a veteran of many battles. What was he up to?

Rivan put down the mike he had spoke into. He turned to his men and nodded. They all had looks of deep understanding, and looks of fear at what they were about to do.

"Helm, make your heading two marks starboard, destination point alpha-omega 23," he said, surprised by the calmness of his voice.

The man standing at the ships controls trembled as he pressed in buttons. "W-w-we have...we have hyperspace locked coordinates sir."

"Very well, we will be honored and remembered by our people forever. And may Admiral Schwartz forgive me for doing this, I know how he loved this ship. Jump."

The massive engines of the Conquest flared into being and the ship jumped into hyperspace...strait into the Death Star. Rivan had known that once the FTLi was down he should somehow do something about the battle station, and being over 50 years old he remembered when he had been a yound ensign in the Imperial Fleet watching the Executor smashing into the Death Star II, how it had caused so much damage. And now he did the same thing, except even worse, he did it on purpose and with a hyperspace jump, his end coordinates aimed for the area where the stations reactors would be.

Emperor Shadaum had listened to the transmission in his secret bunker. He had so far watched the battle, saw his soldiers perform like hereos of legend. He had seen small things happen that normally excaped the grander show, he ahd seen some of his pilots slam themselves bravely into the command deck of a Star Destroyer before it could fire on their 'mother' ship. He had seen an SD commander keep charging the Khurgan forces even though he had lost all his shields and his ship was close to exploding.

His soldiers had faught well. And hard. But I fear in vain he thought. It is time, I think, to iniate the evacuation plan. Shadaum turned to his communications officer. "Eric, begin evacuation plan delta, all citizens not in the affected areas."

"Yes sir."

All across the planet, in large cities, the population congregated and massed at the Gates. Warp Gates. Gifts of technology that Thrashia had kept in times of strife for an emergency. The system operator dialed the end location to the Parlim System, to one of the colony worlds there. With a shake, the warp tunnels all across the planet opened, and the millions of citizens walked calmly through them. They brought their belongings, they money, everything they could.

The Merchant Guild, having aquired their own set of gates long ago, sent ship after ship loaded with gold, and precious minerals, the wealth of Thrashia, with them. The Industry guild brought their heavy machinery through the gates, sure to bring everything they would need to restart.

When all civilian populations had left. The 32 million armed clone legions marched through as well, carrying all the military equipment and vehicles they possesed.

"Emperor, its time, your own gate is ready," said an aide, he was leaning down speaking into Shadaum's ear. Shadaum nodded. He walked with his aide to another far room, the last of the communications and specialists had already gone through.

Shadaum stared at the white light of the gate. He glanced back at the halls around him. "May my father, gods rest his soul, forgive me for leaving this sacred land." Tears of pain and sorrow were splashing down his cheeks and his eyes where filled with their moisture. His aide calmly led him, and they disapeared through the gate.

Schwartz nodded when he heard the transmission from the Emperor. He picked up a mike and broadcasted to the entire fleet, or its remnants.

"Attention. Men of Thrashia! You have and are fighting hard, you have fought bravely, you have fought hard! But I fear it is time to leave our sacred home. It is painful I know, but the Emperor has already evacuated the planet, and our wives, children and family are awaiting us in a distant place. All ships in the central system are to make entry into the portal opened by Parlim. All others are to escape into hyperspace at the gathering point from the past when we first conquered the Mais System. That is all."

Ships, as best as possible made way and went into the portal. Star Destroyers, Praetorians, SSDs, ships of all types. Fighters had to speed to return to their bays. Some just scrambled onto different ships not caring in they were on the wrong one. Admiral Viersan had cursed for minutes on end before he had the fleet huredly disengage and jump into hyperspace. All across the system, Thrashian ships either jumped into hyperspace or made it through the warp tunnel.

The last of the mighty crusader stations, held guard over the portal, General Xavier aboard cursing the enemy roundly and sending his firepower into the nearest. Schwartz had the Epions massive hyperdrive iniated, and dropped shields momentarily, sustained soem damage then jumped.

A small contingent of Praetorian cruisers, a few Shadow cruisers, and General Xavier held their ground beside the portal. Ignoring all command to leave. They were going to hold off the enemy for as long as possible.

Before leaving the system, Grand Admiral Shwartz iniated another part of command 626. The entire wall of mines, which had thus far kept the enemy from entering, launched into a massive wave of death and came hurtlin into the system where the Thrashian fleet had once been, and now only the Imperial, Chronosian, and their allies remained.

Thrashia

10-12-2005, 18:06

When the Thrashians left...they left many dead.

Official tally of Thrashian losses:

2 Sovereign Super Star Destroyers
412 Praetorian Cruisers
359 Star Destroyers
7 Super Star Destroyers
10 Scorpion Carriers
34 Shadow Cruisers
6 Crusader Space Stations (all)
40,000 droid fighters
14,950 Tie Fighters
3,435 Tie Advanced
2,190 Tie Interceptors
1,230 Tie Phantoms
389 Tie Missiles Boats

Forge Moon
Planet Thrashia (shields diactivated, the deadly gas now spreading across its surface)

No endorse

10-12-2005, 18:51

In a dance that would prove to be interestingly irritating for the enemy forces, the Defiance fleet, despite a couple of damaged shields from the bombers, retargeted the enemy again, found that their quarry the Godsend and other No endorse ships were near the Eshirian fleet and decided to kill two birds with one stone. Or fleets in this case. They winked out again and upon reentry, lashed tractor beams upon the enemy ships to try and prevent them running again. The Defiance and three battlecruisers used this tactic to try and snag the Godsend and pound the command ship to space dust.

It was certainly an interesting attempt, but as soon as the enemy started powering up its FTL generators, the fleet sidejumped away again. It was quite regrettable that they had to leave the Eshirians to such a force, but not all was lost. It had been hoped that not all of that force would come after them. Hindsight is 20/20, eh?

The No Endorse fleet had made sure to leave behind quite a few nice little surprises though. A cloud of Nova-torpedos greeted the enemy fleet apon re-entry, along with an annoying little message probe. It would scream out the song 'Band on the Run' on all known GE wavelegnths until it was destroyed or jammed.

They continued their aggrevating dance, pre-emptively jumping about. So long as no one put up an FTLi, they were free as birds.

But then, something happened they didn't expect. The remaining Thrashian Soverign jumped strait into the Death Star, and forces began fleeing the battlefield. It was time then. The FTLi was down, and everything was by far too advanced for this tiny fleet to do anything. Everything that could jumped out of the system, wove a maddening path through the Empire, and headed home.

There was little left behind, and it would be crushed swiftly. Four frigates and two cruisers were all the capitol ships that could not run. Around them, a dozen gunships, ten bombers, and a good twenty fighters waited death.

They were exhausted, low on power, and were willing to take one for the team. They threw up as big of an FTLi as they could, completly innefective against large-scale fleets, but it showed up like a monster on sensors.

Zactarn Prime

10-12-2005, 19:47

Parlim

10-12-2005, 19:50

As the final ship disappeared through the wormhole, the Lonestar powered its engines and moved into it. Seconds later the entry point destabilizaed and closed, the refugee ships and the Parlimian vessel exiting safely in the Horizon System.

Kyanges

10-12-2005, 19:55

The No Endorse ships left over were decimated with fire from Ion Cannons and Turbolasers. The ships left over got ready for departure. The K-Wings were deployed from the Kaloth Battlecruiser to do bombing raids and quick fires on the enemy's. They were all fitted with class 1 hyperdrive giving them enough to kick out of the system and on home. The Vernator-class Destroyer headed home.Salvage teams from Zactarn Prime came in to slavage the metal from the ships. Wreckage was everywhere and could prove valuable later on. The Tattered Vengeance Super Star Destroyer was swept up as well. As for the No Endorse fleet, well they looked doomed. The mighty Lurcrehulk-class Battleship then waived out a message,

" All Remaining ships, enemy or not. You have a chance to land now in our hangar and submit your vessel and self to us. This is a final chance at life for you. Refuse and we open fire." said Captain Murl Kije. The Turbolasers then charged up to full and got ready to fire.

As the battleship uttered its monolouge, the Eshirian fleet prepped one little surprise... It suddenly blasted into being between the battleship, and the remaining NE forces.

Hello Friends [NE], Just though you might want a lift.

Massive Corrollium walls sprang up between the battleship, and the the Eshirian fleet. A salvo of nearly one million missiles were fired, and the wormholes opened up around the NE vessels.

There's your exit, get out!

The Eshirian vessels themselves plotted a course to jump directly into the next sector.

No endorse

10-12-2005, 19:58

"There's too much damage, a warp jump would tear our hulls apart!

We're sending all of our strike craft with you. We can stall them while you erase your tracks, but we can't hold long obviously. GET THE HECK OUT NOW!"

Only one of the frigates could go for the gate, and made it out safely.

The No Endorse fleet grabbed some of the walls of corrolium with tractor beams and placed them in defensive positions about themselves. They were ready to throw it down with Zactarn Prime. They'd been trying to destroy this fleet the whole battle, and damned if they were not going to at least tear a hunk out of them.

Kyanges

10-12-2005, 20:06

"There's too much damage, a warp jump would tear our hulls apart!

We're sending all of our strike craft with you. We can stall them while you erase your tracks, but we can't hold long obviously. GET THE HECK OUT NOW!"

The No Endorse fleet grabbed some of the walls of corrolium with tractor beams and placed them in defensive positions about themselves. They were ready to throw it down with Zactarn Prime. They'd been trying to destroy this fleet the whole battle, and damned if they were not going to at least tear a hunk out of them.

Negative. We'll stick here, and offer up some fire support. Be ready to be beamed out by us at the first sign of trouble.

Additional salvos of missiles were fired, and Multi-pahsic energy tore across the void. Thousands of guns were opening up along the entire length of the Eshirian fleet.

Eshirian reinforcements, including Exas-1, that were mid-jump to the battle changed vectors, and were now scheduled to rendezvous with the remaining forces in the system.

Zactarn Prime

10-12-2005, 20:21

The already far away VSD called all it's TIE's back to the ship. They jolted across the stars entering the hangar. Once they were safely inside the Vernator hit Jump and headed back to Krankzinnig Galaxy. It raced at top speed like a scolded dog. The Sabaoth Destroyer also raced back to the galaxy. The Kaloth Destroyer backed away and only got half of it's K-Wings back. The other half raced back home. The fleet was retreating. The Lucrehulk and the two Executors stood ground. The Defender-class Super Star Destroyer stood ground as well. They would fight as long as they could.

No endorse

10-12-2005, 20:36

The fleet switched to a short-range encrypted channel, and tight-beamed to the nearest battlecarrier.

"If you insist, we'll do our best to help you out with what little we have left. Don't waste your lives defending us though, most of the fleet is already home.

Just be advised that there is a full scale revolt in No Endorse. You might want to pull back some assets and keep your borders safe.

Also, if you have to beam us out, we'll need time to set our craft to self-destruct. Sidejumper technology and other information about No Endorse must never enter Imperial hands."

The fleet began hammering away at all comers, thanking the Gods for the incursion of the Eshirian fleet.

Thrashia

10-12-2005, 20:40

The last few remaining Thrashian cruisers sped up along side the No Endorse fleet. A transmission line came over. "No Endorse fleet, this is Captain Mikneer, thankyou for the help, and allow us to help in return."

The group of four Praetorian Cruisers and the large 6 kilometer long Shadow cruiser came along side the allied fleets and began hammering into the Zactern Prime vessels, the Shadow aimed its powerful 'Death's Hand' Ion cannons at the large Super Star Destroyers.

Zactarn Prime

10-12-2005, 20:56

Unified Sith

10-12-2005, 20:57

"Doctor Fiudski! What can you tell us about this gas that those damned Khurgan's dropped?" asked Schwartz. The best of Thrashia's medical and anti-viral experts had been rounded up. At least 1/10th of the planet had been covered with a thick red gas. Several thousand civilians had been killed upon it touching them, or them breathing it in. In an attempt to stiffle the spread of it. Colonel Fierce had made a large and powerful ionized shield around the infected areas, and succeded in sealing off most of the gas, but it was still there.

"I admiral do not know. It's a substance we've not come across before in our research. I would think that it perhaps can be clensed, but it would take a massive amount of time. Which I believe we have little."

Schwartz nodded at the greyed old doctor. He turned to his command crew. "How are our shields holding up?"

A tech turned. "Well sir, we've yet only encountered the spread ships of Chronosia, our mass of lasers have been quick to take them out, but I think the fleet is at least half-way gone."

"Yes...but I need to know-"

"Admiral!" shouted a comms officer. The man had a look of horrorified surprise on his face. Shcwartz nearly ran over. "What?"

"Its captain Rivan, aboard the Conquest," he said feebly. The Conquest was Schwartz own Soveriegn command ship. It had been engaged in fighting ever since the begginning.

"What, is it down?" asked Schwartz.

"No sir, listen." the tech pressed a button on the consul and the voice of Captain Rivan echoed through the chamber.

"...and it is beyond my patience and honor to await the destruction of our noble nation. We have fought hard, and we have bloodied the enemy. We have had our allies support us. But it is now time to end it. I salute the Grand Admiral Schwartz, and to the great Emperor Shaduam, may he live forever."

The line went dead. "Sir, he was broadcasting to the entire fleet," said the tech.

"Why?" asked Schwartz. He was disturbed. He knew Rivan quite well, he was a hard nosed captain and one who was a veteran of many battles. What was he up to?

Rivan put down the mike he had spoke into. He turned to his men and nodded. They all had looks of deep understanding, and looks of fear at what they were about to do.

"Helm, make your heading two marks starboard, destination point alpha-omega 23," he said, surprised by the calmness of his voice.

The man standing at the ships controls trembled as he pressed in buttons. "W-w-we have...we have hyperspace locked coordinates sir."

"Very well, we will be honored and remembered by our people forever. And may Admiral Schwartz forgive me for doing this, I know how he loved this ship. Jump."

The massive engines of the Conquest flared into being and the ship jumped into hyperspace...strait into the Death Star. Rivan had known that once the FTLi was down he should somehow do something about the battle station, and being over 50 years old he remembered when he had been a yound ensign in the Imperial Fleet watching the Executor smashing into the Death Star II, how it had caused so much damage. And now he did the same thing, except even worse, he did it on purpose and with a hyperspace jump, his end coordinates aimed for the area where the stations reactors would be.
What the captain Rivan seems to have forgotten in his brave but futile assault on the Death Star was that it still had it's shields active, even if they are 60%. Gravity wells were directed at the Sovereign in a last-ditch effort to draw the ship back into realspace. But even if it didn't it would smash into the shields of the Death Star and drop them down to 35%. And a hole will open at the point of impact. Immediately after, the Death Star slowed down as its ion engines shut off and the reactor redirected energy from the turbolasers, the power from them redirected into the shields to bring them back up to healthier status.

Schwartz nodded when he heard the transmission from the Emperor. He picked up a mike and broadcasted to the entire fleet, or its remnants.

"Attention. Men of Thrashia! You have and are fighting hard, you have fought bravely, you have fought hard! But I fear it is time to leave our sacred home. It is painful I know, but the Emperor has already evacuated the planet, and our wives, children and family are awaiting us in a distant place. All ships in the central system are to make entry into the portal opened by Parlim. All others are to escape into hyperspace at the gathering point from the past when we first conquered the Mais System. That is all."

Ships, as best as possible made way and went into the portal. Star Destroyers, Praetorians, SSDs, ships of all types. Fighters had to speed to return to their bays. Some just scrambled onto different ships not caring in they were on the wrong one. Admiral Viersan had cursed for minutes on end before he had the fleet huredly disengage and jump into hyperspace. All across the system, Thrashian ships either jumped into hyperspace or made it through the warp tunnel.

The last of the mighty crusader stations, held guard over the portal, General Xavier aboard cursing the enemy roundly and sending his firepower into the nearest. Schwartz had the Epions massive hyperdrive iniated, and dropped shields momentarily, sustained soem damage then jumped.

A small contingent of Praetorian cruisers, a few Shadow cruisers, and General Xavier held their ground beside the portal. Ignoring all command to leave. They were going to hold off the enemy for as long as possible.
"Damn them..." The Admiral cursed as the enemy slipped past her fingers. She worried that the Empress would do something to her for her failure...but then again, the Imperial point has been made.

Before leaving the system, Grand Admiral Shwartz iniated another part of command 626. The entire wall of mines, which had thus far kept the enemy from entering, launched into a massive wave of death and came hurtlin into the system where the Thrashian fleet had once been, and now only the Imperial, Chronosian, and their allies remained.
"Ma'am the wall of mines is crashing down on us."

"Very well. Redirect all energy into the shields, yes, even the superlaser and order the fleet to make their jumps to outside the system immediately." The Admiral ordered. The fleet began moving away from the enemy and slowly began to make the jump to heal while the Death Star continued to bolster its shields in order to take the mines.

In the meantime, the Sith Lord Hydrus did what he could to eliminate the mines with the Dark Side, though many still got through and the Armageddon fleet suffered ship losses by the several before they began jumping out.

Losses:
265/500 Star Destroyers
40/80 Immobilizer Star Destroyers
Thousands of fighters
50 of the Armageddon battlefleet due to mines

No endorse

11-12-2005, 02:45

The fleet was being destroyed. The Defence-class Super Star Destroyer was the first to drop back. It then went into jump and headed home with 97% of it's shields damaged. The Lucrehulk-class Battleship then fled. It zoomed back as it's shields were being blown apart. It's hull was denting and on the verge of ripping. The Executors then zoomed toward the enemy fleet. One Executor pressed onward and vanished. It then appeared in the middle of the enemy fleets. It then self-destructed. It blew apart into shreds lighting the stars. The other then turned and raced for home at jump. Not looking back. The Executors were equipped with wormhole generators allowing them to bend space and vanish and reappear. The last Executor was racing for home. It was not yet in jump because it didn't have enough fuel. It had to reach the edge of the system first.

"Where did it go?"

"I don't know... nothing on scanners... wait... SPACIAL DISTORTION INCOMING! IT'S THAT EXECUTOR!"

"All ships fall back! The fools think we don't know spacial distortions, we live in one! Show em boys! Sphere it! And send this info to the Eshirians, they'll want some warning."

The fleet fanned outwards in a sphere, pulling away from the approaching Executor. They moved several of the blocks of corrolium in front of themselves to better protect should the Executor open fire. However, they were unprepared for it to self-destruct. The craft flared into reality intensely, and detonated, scattering the small force. Their shields were battered, but holding, and their point defense kept the worst of the debris away.

"Eshirian fleet. We're just getting batted around out here, and don't really know where to go. As such, I'm giving you command of everything that is surviving."

Kyanges

11-12-2005, 03:25

"Where did it go?"

"I don't know... nothing on scanners... wait... SPACIAL DISTORTION INCOMING! IT'S THAT EXECUTOR!"

"All ships fall back! The fools think we don't know spacial distortions, we live in one! Show em boys! Sphere it! And send this info to the Eshirians, they'll want some warning."

The fleet fanned outwards in a sphere, pulling away from the approaching Executor. They moved several of the blocks of corrolium in front of themselves to better protect should the Executor open fire. However, they were unprepared for it to self-destruct. The craft flared into reality intensely, and detonated, scattering the small force. Their shields were battered, but holding, and their point defense kept the worst of the debris away.

"Eshirian fleet. We're just getting batted around out here, and don't really know where to go. As such, I'm giving you command of everything that is surviving."

(OOC: Where are your men going to go? I thought they couldn't get away?)

IC:

Forget it, we're sending you home.

Shade cruisers began to stretch their Structural Integrity fields around one NE vessel, lending its hull strength. In the next instant, the ships disappeared with the NE vessel in tow. The rest of the ships simply vanished without a trace.

(OOC: All ships are now in some other system. Random... I'll decide where they are later...)

Godular

11-12-2005, 03:27

In the haste of the Godulan Mako's flight from the TIE fighters, it was slow to note the pullout of the Allied Fleets until the Thrashians and the rest of the nations had pulled out.

"Sir! Subspace disruption from that overload has gone down to nominal levels, we can jump!"

"NINJA VANISH!"

"Commencing Calculations!"

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The fighters were giving the Mako a decent run for its money, bucking and weaving in their pursuit to avoid the surprisingly precise amount of firepower being thrown at them and dealing back a goodly amount of their own, however, after approximately thirty seconds of this pursuit beyond the departure of the allied forces, the Mako vanished into the void.

No endorse

11-12-2005, 03:42

The No Endorse vessels detected a field being deployed about them, and noticed the powering up of the Eshirian FTL generators.

They used what little power they had left to stay in place, they wanted to stand and fight, not be mothered out. Their deaths were supposed to be those of soldiers! Stand and fight, tear at the enemy until their last dying breath, and then keep fighting even when there was no more breath to be had. But their burnt out sidejumpers and overloaded power grids could not overpower the Eshirian vessels. In the days of yore, they would have lived on through sheer willpower. But in this age of technology and machines, whirring computers and volatile energy, they could only fight as well as their tools. And their tools were quite blunt right now.

They were completly outmatched, and followed the craft compliently.

It was hoped that they would take them to the Eshirian Soverignty. There were several slightly inflated stories aobut the girls there. Besides, their ships would be worth nothing in putting down the rebellion until they were overhauled...

They would be fine. So long as they didn't go strait to Haven, they were happy.

Unified Sith

11-12-2005, 03:53

"Godulan ship's left the system." A clone intoned as the Death Star's shields went back up past 50% and continued to climb swiftly.

Admiral Keldarli sighed. Too late...much too late... "All right. Continue to draw power from the turbolasers to power the shields. Prepare the superlaser. We'll finish here what we came to do." If only they left much earlier!!

At long last, the superlaser will be engaged to ensure that Thrashian Prime is never used again.

It began to power up...

Khurgan

11-12-2005, 04:12

Helion looked on as the red gas faded, the servitor blood that gave it its color fading as it was devoured, broken down into more of the virus. As each particle landed gently upon a bacterium, a leaf, a man's shoulder, livestock, the fireform began to swell with blisters, their cells necrotising at an incredible rate, spreading the virus further and spewing deadly gasses into the air. Spreading rapidly across the planets surface, all life exposed was quickly devoured, feeding the massive plumes of toxic fumes rising above. The cyclotronic warheads that followed them only made things worse, the massive storms spawned by the bombs spreading the virus far and wide, the surface of the planet soon covered in a fog of the gas. And then, it ignited.

Whether the cause had been some stove left on, an arcing circuit, volcanic activity, or local forges, it would never be known. The massive firestorm spread across the abandoned planet's surface, consuming the planet's atmosphere in a cataclysmic blast of flame. Helion rose into the air, feeding on the departing lifeforce of the planet, feeding the raw power of its transformation into the Warp. His form glowed with power, lighting the throne of his battleship with fire.

Still, the quietly observing vessels could not avoid the hail of fire from the planet's defense batteries. While the ion cannons caused several of the slaves and servitors manning the massive to experience slight discomfort, they had little other effect. The turbolasers and nukes, however, caused the fleet some distress. In flashes of warpflame, battlecruisers detonated, spraying ordinance and rapidly mutating chunks of hull to imbed themselves into the bedrock of the planet. A single Lord of Change slowly fell, bleeding out from multiple hull punctures and an annihilated plasma reactor. Its largely intact bulk slammed into the planet, digging a furrow a thousand kilometers long.

The sacrifices were worth it. Turning, Helion faced the ornate Warp Translator, leering grotesques covering every surface, their faces shifting with the whims of Change. Activating his comms, he hailed the Death Star.

"Admiral, it is hardly neccessary to destroy this lifeless ball of rock. With no air and no soil, the planet will never be used again. Why not spare the planet, and leave its rocky corpse as a testament to the might of the Galactic Empire?"

OOC: Thrashia: Apologies for seeming an ass before, it's just that your response pissed me off slightly. Too bad you got back so soon, I was going to post an idea to edit to to a check-mate situation, using the Life Eater as a knife to your throat instead of as a PK. Of course, evacuating your population works just fine, too, and is quite acceptable. Oh, and apologies for the wait, was driving home from school.

Unified Sith

11-12-2005, 04:30

"You have a point." Admiral Keldalri answered. Then she ordered. "Stop the superlaser. We have made our point. Prepare to make the jump to hyperspace."

"Where to?" A clone asked.

"The Mais system. I believe it's still a colony of Thrashia, however broken the nation may be. Let us at least salvage something out of this. Besides, I believe Chronosia wants some new worlds..." The Admiral smiled coldly.

Shortly enough, the Death Star disappeared, leaving nothing but a dead world and dead ships floating around. The Imperial fleets fled to shipyards all over the galaxy, and Darth Hydrus was allowed to do what he wished. The Empire has won this battle, but at quite the cost.

OOC:
So what do cyclotronic torpedoes do?

Anagonia

11-12-2005, 04:41

Darth Hydrus grinned from dolphin-like cheek-to-cheek, or as best as a delphinian could. He pointed forward with his golved finger, his thoughts as clear as words to his crew. They all gazed to him instantly, the ship shaking by his very echo within the force. His eyes blazing red as his thoughts rung.

I want that planet, kill anyone that gets in our way!

Every Confederate Ship moved their way forward towards the dead world, gathering up survivors and leftovers of their brethren. They were to take hold of a dying world as an outpost for their cause. This came as a direct order from Hydrus's Master, and his Masters orders would not be defied by anyone if he could help it.

Khurgan

11-12-2005, 05:31

OOC to Sith: Big fracking hurricanes, covering the entire planet. And not sissy ones like the ones they get in Florida either, REALLY big ones.

IC: Helion lounged in his throne, lazily observing the Anagonian fleet approaching. Spinning the chair with his power armored foot, he turned to the comms panel, poking the activation button with a taloned toe, grinning at the display.

"Welcome, Darth Hydrus, to my new summer home. Quite cool without an atmosphere, I think you'll find. Please, won't you join me for a glass of amasec?"

Anagonia

11-12-2005, 05:38

Darth Hydrus, seeing the display pop up, spoke openly for the first time. His voice seemed pure, even angelic, defying his demonic expressions of Sith influence acorss his smooth body. His crew were calmed instantly, the fear from the telepathic ways of speaking having no effect on this untouched asset. It would seem that, indeed, a Sith can have some good left.

"We shall," came the impossible voice, "For I desire a talk myself."

Khurgan

11-12-2005, 05:54

Helion sat up slightly, his lithe form resting against the firm back of the throne.

"Ah good. Shall you take a boarding craft, or shall I have the Tech Adepts prepare our Teleportation Arrays? I can assure you, they are perfectly safe, and travel through the Warp is a remarkable experience. I do suggest that everyone try it once in their life, although for the weak willed I cannot guarantee survival. But of course, as one so favoured by Tzeentch, I must surely know your answer already. And I do: teleportation it is."

Whirring to life, the teleporter arrays began to gather energy, and with a flash, Hydrus was gone from the bridge of his vessel.

Hydrus was surrounded by coruscating energy, patterns of light and darkness, he could see the thunderous cacaphony surrounding him, taste the brilliant colors that made up the chaos that was the Warp. But shielding him, pulling him towards his destination, was the gentle warmth of Tzeentch, like a protective father guiding his son across a street. And then---

---He was on the bridge with Helion.

"Ah, Darth Hydrus, we finally meet in person. I've heard so much about you. Please, have a seat. Amasec?"

OOC: Amasec is distilled wine, similar to port.

Anagonia

11-12-2005, 06:02

His eyes closed as his body shivered visibly from the experience. Not from pain, but from pleasure. Somehow, that beam excited a dormant feeling within him, something that he had forgotton long ago. It was interesting, really. He didn't feel the Dark Sides power as strongly as he did before the teleportation, nor the Light sides. He felt.....something else.

But, opening his eyes, they failed to blaze with an angry flare. They calmly portrayed the soul of the Dark Lord that stood before Helion. Someone rooted in structure and disipline, lacking in most compassion, and trained to do the bidding of something greater than he. That was only the cover image, of course. If Helion could look deeper, the truth would shock most people believing what Dark Lords should be.

Nonetheless, he spoke Telepatheticaly to Helion, and clamly nodded.

Greetings, my appriciation for the...reviving energy. He felt another shiver flow through him, clsoing his eyes once more and sighing. As for the drinks- he opened his eyes, which were deep red now -that would satisfy me.

The Humankind Abh

11-12-2005, 06:59

ooc: yes I know it's late but you guys picked a heck of a time of the year to start this whole thing.

The Rambirds were designed to fly straight through and head back into the security of the shadows. Any ion fire that hit them was simply turned away by the organic design. The simply left the damaged ships and made back for the Abh lines.

Many Whitestars went down in the attack as they took made up the frontline being more mobile and faster than any ship in the fleet. Two could play that game as Commander Elbryan's Destroyers shimmered and appeared surrounding the enemy and finally letting go with the more powerful weapons that had been stolen from many skirmishes with the Shadows as hot red energy poured into the enemy.

The Victory Destroyers still held strong as they always did though but there were troubles of another matter. "Your highness, we have allies leaving the system. They are in retreat."

The Abriel, ever confident, didn't betray any emotions though this was a bit of a surprise. "What's the status of the enemy?"

"They are advancing on all fronts and Commander Wyndon will be overrun soon"

"I see. So this is what it will all come down to."

"Sir?"

"We will destroy many of the enemy as we can here and now. The Abh do not lightly retreat, remember it well when war comes to the Empire's door. Give the order for the Victory Destroyer's to use Level 2 firing. Send Rambirds at the closest Star Destroyers. We need to hold that line until the Whitestars can begin to retreat and pick up survivors. Send this message to the entire fleet."

"Yes sir."

Whitestars began to pull back and picked up life pods as they left. A code of honor to speak. They wouldn't leave their kind behind if it could be helped.

Victory Class Destroyers all along the front began to power up their main cannons. Lights dimmed along every hull as power surged up into the prongs infront of the Gravimetric engines. Yellow began to glow at the tips as energy hummed through the ships and began funneling down to the nose of the Destroyers some hundreds of meters away where more yellow energy began forming. All points met in one grand stream of yellow power as it surged out to find a victim where it could put a nice hole through a star destroyer and do some serious damage to a SSD. The unique firing went out all along the line.

Then on came the sharks of space with their fins flicking back and forth as it propelled them through space. A few sported a few gashes reflecting the crystalline armor that rested underneath the organic armor but it made no difference to them. They had a taste of destruction and they wanted more from the enemy. They shot out shimmering and disappearing into space and then reappearing close to the Star Destroyers where they imployed the same tactics as before.

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The 2nd Galactic Civil War (FT, open-slightly)