NationStates Jolt Archive

IC: This small speck of insignificance among the stars. Where countless billions died each day and while trillions prospered. The terra-like planet hadn’t been of any real priority to the hierarchs. While it was known to be a nest of heretics, they weren’t major upstarts so the covenant was content to focus on larger prey. But now that the civil war was solved and a new Republic born, the major resistance to the covenant religion pacified and reabsorbed; now the juggernaut turned its attention to these fringe groups.

The system itself was fairly empty; a middle aged blue star occupied the center while orbited by three other earth sized planets. One was scorched barren from its proximity while the other was frozen from the distance. However in between these two was the habited planet. The planet itself was orbited by one moon, so it was much like earth except with an altered landscape. But new, non-natural objects entered real space near the outer planet.

Zukalsee was relatively jubilant. He had been promoted finally to fleet master due to the large portion of the navy returning and sent out in haste to cleanse this wound of faith. Apparently he was favored by his superiors as he was granted command of a Purification instead of the ordinary Recon fleet. It was armed to the teeth with a Heavy Cruiser as his personal flagship and flanked by six of the heavily armed and armored destroyers. He was curious since this place had minimal resistance, at the most two battered frigates and a handful of seraphs; it was as if they were cautious that real combat could take place…

“We have exited slip space outside planet ST38, all ships accounted for ship master.” The sangheili that acted as his second in command was fairly eager and young. Much like the new form of the Republic. “We’ve detected weak plasma emission, coming behind the planet’s moon.”

“They mean to use it as cover to launch a surprise attack. To bad they don’t know about the new detection systems in our holy vessels. Have the ships form up in a left to right diagonal line, make it seem like we’re approaching head on while giving us maximum firing opportunities on the scum.”

“Aye ship master”

OOC: Allright, you can join as maybe a resource gathering group, pirates, random people wandering in the middle of nowhere, or if you really want to, you can play as the heretics, just don’t join with anymore than 20 ships, and please, 2-3 other people minimum(Ha, like there’ll even be one…)

bump-up-and-away!

(( PIRATES!!! thank ya Malice ><;;))


Captain Ghall stood to attention, awaiting reports from his crew, and keeping a close eye on the surronding area.
"Aye Sir," His fourth in command approached him, " We've spotted a fleet of ships in the surrounding area, much larger than us,"

"Aye, lad," The Captain started for the control room, "And where exactly are the coordinates?"

" About 2.3 hundred miles to the west of us,"

" Good work, lad, you be watchin' them ships, and ready our defenses." The Captain loked harshly into the vast of space,

"Sir!" The fourth in command walked away.

"I'll be warnin' yeh, this won't be pretty"

(OOC: Debating whether I should join as pirates or not. Even though you said no Republican peps here unless things escalate, I see no reason whatsoever why I can't be pirates. But while I think on it, I'm just gonna critize. Spiked Snaketounge, what the hell kind of pirate are you? Where the hell is the "Yarrs", "...ye' old space dog!", the "shiver me timbers!" the "Arr, ye' landlubbers, I sacrifice ye' to the stars if you don't shut up and swab that there deck!" Where are they? Where?! Think of the children! Won't somebody please think of the children?!:headbang: :( )

IC: Zukalsee noticed a flashing indicator rune before the actual sangheili at the station did.

“The readings are faint Ship Master, but it is possible that there are other vessels out there, most likely sharquoi.”

He responded, the arrogance easily recognizable as their species falw…
“And there for negligible, continue monitoring in case if it happens to be anything, but otherwise we continue on. Distance to target planet?”

Another crimson-armored sangheili spoke up, “Five cycles, projected heretic attack from the moon will occur three cycles after we reach the planet.”

He gauged the possible scenario,
“They’ll either wait until we start cleansing the planet or flee…either way we’ll be ready to cut the curs down…and if any sharquoi or otherwise interfere, then they’ll join them as well….”

Theoretically the ship master’s strategies would work, however what he did not anticipate was the level of technology this “ragged band” of heretics possessed….
(OOC: Yeah I forgot to say "unless you joined as pirates" or somethin Tal, sorry XD)

OCC: I wish to enter a star destroyer is that ok. of course it will be a private one that was captured and is now a pirate.(Devastation class. my own design.)

((Sorry Taledonia, I was trying to make it legible, and it's the future, what do you want from me??))

Captain Ghall monitored the control room, ready to take evasive action at any given moment. "OI! Farshad!"
"Sir?" Farshad, who worked with the projectile department, approached the captain.
" Ready the cannons, and be quick about it, move!"
"Aye Sir!" Farshad marched off.
" Best we be preparing, it be doin' us good, commandeering them ships, we could be much worse off."

OOC: I'm delaying posting for Tal if he wants to join. Sure 1010102, I just don't want people showing up with MASSIVE fleet for this dinky little system....

(( 4Q- Z is a 'V" formation, only upsidedown...yeah))

(OOC: Woo! But really HC, you didn't need to delay for my account. By the way, not meant to mess up your RP, but I'll be RPing rather stupidly since being a pirate is too much to resist, great fun. And I'm planning to attack your fleet, make a mistake and crashland on the planet, joining the heretics to fight ye landlubbers!)

IC:

"Yarr, ye scurvy dogs!" shouted Captain Mike Hawkslaughn as his ship came into the area, "We've got ourselves a grand shinding going on 'er! Professor Hootington! Have the men swab the deck, we must be showin' up all nice and perdy for these people's party, before we rip their heart out and take their wallets! Arr, we be great pirates indeed."

The first mate acknoledge the order with an "arr" and went off to his duty. Soon, the Black Soul would descend upon the unsuspecting prey, both pirate and mighty war vessels, and loot, plunder, and perhaps rape if the situation would permit. A routine raid it would be. The mighty behemoth vessel moved through the void, under a heavy cloak to disguise them, towards the mass of ships, weapons beginning to charge and shields silently crackling on.

OOC: I'm delaying posting for Tal if he wants to join. Sure 1010102, I just don't want people showing up with MASSIVE fleet for this dinky little system....

OCC don't worry its just 1 ship.
stats for Devastation class star destroyer:

Devastation class Star Destroyer
class Star Destroyer
length 2,000 meters
Engine Unit(s) KDY Destroyer ion engine (3),
Cygnus Spaceworks Gemon-4 ion engine (4)
Power Plant SFS I-a2b Solar Ionization Reactor
Hyperdrive Class 2
Crew 40,000
Passengers 2000
Armaments
100 heavy turbolasers
250 medium turbolasers
50 ion cannons
15 tractor beam projectors
2 Gravity Well Projectors

IC:

"sir we have just stolen the newest and most powerful (non-super) star destroyer in the fleet..."

"yes we have. where are we?"

"ST37. I am picking up 7 ships in system all moving towards the planet."

"well then hail them and ask their intentions in this system."

"aye sir"

"unidentified vessels, please identify you self.

IC: Zukalsee read the message again, his lower mandibles clicking in frustration.

Not only had a large energy spike been detected elsewhere, but some class of Star destroyer had shown up!

Rather than vaporize them immediately(Or so he thinks he can) and cause a possible international incident, Zukalsee decided to play the diplomat.

I am Ship Master Zukalsee Orno, I am in command of this fleet located in OUR territory. Now that we have identified ourselves, we require you interlopers to declare who you are, where you are from, and why you are here before appropriate measures must be taken in response to this invasion of our space.

The message was translated and sent off while the Ship master addressed the rapidly expanding planet.

“We shall be in our firing positions within 2 minutes Ship Master”

"they have responed to our hail,sir"

Captin Dason read the resonse.

"Well identify ourselves."

We have stolen this ship from the navy of 1010102, we mean no harm we simplily made a blind jump and appeared inside this system. please tell us what your are doing with such fire power in this system. we just want to know. if you attack this planet we will attack you. we are getting distress signals from the planet surface that say you are going to kill them.

"just to be safe activated the gravity well projectors."

"aye, sir."

The gravity well projectors kicked in and trapped all ships in system.

"Now activate the cloaking jammers to make sure there aren't cloaked mines ahead of us."

"yes sir"

occ:where in the galaxy is this?

OOC: Ahem, waiting for Tal.

Where exactly in the galaxy/universe? Hell if I know! It's huge! But this would be near the outer edges of Republican Space, ie: Still within it, but gettin near the border.

BTW, how does your gravity well projector stop ships from leaving?

occ all the info you seek is here...
http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Gravity_well_projector

OOC: While useful, it doesn't tell me HOW it stops hyperspace and the likes...

*pokes Tal* Pooooost

IC: “Shipmaster. The sharquoi are treating this place like it is theirs…”

Zukalee nodded, “You know the response to give.”

Attention Foreign Being(s):
You are intruding upon Covenant held space. We will give you exactly fifteen minutes to leave the system, or we shall bring the forerunner’s vengeance down upon your souls.

Now the plasma weapons started to charge up. The blood red energy contrasting with the black of space while the seven sleek ships started to turn on their starboard side to face the approaching moon…


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The cruiser’s command room was dark, almost lightless since they had virtually everything turned off or in stand by mode. Like planned the over confident commander had believed what he wanted to believe and didn’t think to scour the outer planet for any heretics. There had hidden a small group of frigates and cruisers, some weren’t even a decade old. Far to new and well kept for heretics of such a small standing.

But nevertheless the five ships had sat their in almost total darkness, watching the situation unfold infront of them. Waiting for the right moment to strike….

The ship opened up in a hail of fury. Turbo laser batteries lashing out as fighters spilled forth from the hangers, flying with accurate speed and blindly firing at anything that dared to move.

To the landlubbers of this here fleet, I, Cap'n Mike Hawkslaughn, hereby commandeer these here ships and any booty, whether treasure or of the female variety, which may be stowed away in those there hulls! Yarr!!!!

IC: The laser impacted with several of the destroyer’s particle shielding, causing the silvery-white energy to flare weakly before going unseen again. However, each ship slowed down in forward velocity, as if the sharquoi posed such an insignificant threat they could halt and take time to aim.

Inside the covenant vessels, the klaxons were blaring on the already vigilant crew awaiting orders.

“Have all turrets attain a fire trajectory on those scum and fire the moment you do, and initiate standard fighter destruction method, construct.”

The AI already knew this was coming and generated the desired information seemingly instantly.

“Ship master….we’re detecting several new ships!...They’re covenant!”

Zukalee couldn’t have generated an expression of shock greater than if the forerunners themselves were present.

“Adjust shields towards the rear damnit! Those heretics scraped something up from somewhere! Have all ships scatter and reform in a delta formation! NOW!”

Outside things started heating up, literally as each plasma turret had discharged its super heated payload towards the pirate’s vessel and many covenant turbo lasers began lashing out purple beams of energy towards the hostile fighters.

Almost as one four of the Destroyers peeled off to the left towards the pirate ship while the Heavy Cruiser and two other Destroyers went right.

However the heretics decided to speak up at this moment in the form of a flash of blinding light as the particle cannon ripped into the shields of a Destroyer. The shields flared almost pure white, but held, even as the heretics two Cruisers and three Frigates raced forward...

occ: is this dead?


"sir the Taledonian ships are under attack!"

"well then open fire with all ion cannons at all enemy ships. that will stop them."

the Devastation fired all ion cannons at the enemy ships hoping to take down their defensive and offensive systems.