NationStates Jolt Archive

The Capitan of the ANS Purity sat quietly in his chair, A chart board in his lap, the board showed his position.

He brow twisted in concentration as he plotted a course, when he finished He twisted in his chair and looked at the ships Seer. The Seer was a young girl probably only 19. She was incased in a large liquid filled tube that sat directly behind him. She looked at him and she smiled slightly at him.

"Is this course acceptable Elanor?" The Capitan asked the Seer. Elanor's eyes seemed to glaze over for a moment as she uploaded the course chart data.

"It is John," Elanor said, Her voice being broadcasted threw the speakers on the bridge.

Suddenly side of the freighter lit up as a series of explosion were set off on the port side of the massive ship.

Elanors eyes flashed "Multiple ships coming out of stealth. Fighters, Bombers, and a Frigate 10,000km and closing. FTL drives are off line, back ups not responding,"

John twisted back in his chair "Who are they?"

"Unknown, Probability of Pirates... 95%,"

"Shields up, bring engines up to the red line, Pass the word," He said softly as his bridge crew began to file in and take positions.

Elanor brought the ships shields up and brought the engines to their maximum safe output. As the ship began to accelerate she also released a distress signal into the darkness of space.


(ooc: Note: The people of Arathii have never made fist contact)

Fortunately for the Arathii ship, a destroyer and two frigates in the Imperium of Terra's navy were patrolling the nearby star system when the signal hit the ships.

Commander Jierk was in command of this patrol group and had been enjoying the peace and quiet of space. To him, space was his home, a place where he was welcomed and all the answers one sought could be found. Space was where he belonged, and due to his enthusiasm, he had joined the navy and swiftly risen up to the rank of Commander. And now, he was going to show why he had gained such a rank.

"Ensign Dean, what did the sensors just pick up?"

A black-haired young man replied. "Sir, we are receiving a distress signal from a one Arashii Republic. A freighter is under heavy attack by pirate forces and is requesting assistance." The Commander nodded.

"Very well. Notify the rest of the battlegroup of what we have found and inform them we are responding. Have the patrol gather together and prepare to jump. Bring us to Code Red and have the frigates ready to deploy Longswords."

"Yes sir." The three ships, the ITS Endless, Lucky Strike, and Ebony Star all gathered together and, after linking their ships to the countdown, waited and then jumped into Slipspace, vanishing in a flash of blue light.

A minute or two later, they reappeared within the battlezone. Longsword squadrons, twelve in all, elite fighters that were fast and could deal anti-fighter and anti-ship weaponry, were deployed, set on anti-missile and fighter duty. Commander Jierk roared. "Power up plasma torpedoes and take aim at the pirate frigate. Fire on my mark. Open two channels, one to the pirates and one to the Arashii ship."

"Open sir. Plasma charging...."

Jierk spoke to the pirates and the Arashii ship.

Unknown ship, you are to stand down and call back your fighters. Weapons are to be powered down and prepare to be boarded. Refusal to do so will result in a hostile response.

Arashii ship, I am Commander Jierk of the Imperium of Terra. I received your distress call and am here to aid you. If you can still move, head towards our ships. We will protect you.

"Sir, plasma torpedoes ready."

He nodded. "We wait for the pirate response. Ready the PD system, in case they try to overwhelm us with their fighters and bombers."

"Yes sir."

The Pirate ship turned and began to pull away from the crippled frigate and the patrol group. Its engines began to glow as the FTL drives began to come online.

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Elanor gasped when the ship fed the sensor readings into her brain.

"Sir! Multiple ships coming from bearing 07-34 Mark 4." Elanor reported.

"Friendly?" John asked

"I... No data on the ships, They are something new,"

The message automatically came on threw the speakers. Its was in a different language, a dialect john never hear before

"No language on file?" John asked practically knowing the answer.

"None," Elanor said softly.

Suddenly an alarm klaxon began to go off.

"Sir, inner Haul breach, deck 6, 3, 4... We're being boarded,"

A video screen near Johns chair snapped on. The video showed a bright jet cutting in from the other side of the haul. A large chunk of the haul fell and men began to poor into the cramped walk ways.

"Elanor, lock down this ship and broadcast this video feed on all channels.

Jierk grinned when he saw the pirates running. "Sir, they are running! Sensors are showing rising energy levels, and disturbances in spacetime. They are trying to escape with their FTL drives." The Commander smirked.

"Then make it not so. Activate the FTLi field, I want them to remain here. After all, we just joined the fun."

"Yes sir." The field popped up, stopping any FTL travel that required gravity, as an immensely powerful field appear in the space around the three fleets.

The Commander roared. "Are the torpedoes ready and locked on?!"

"Yes sir."

"Then fire the damned things!"

Ten plasma torpedoes launched from the ships and headed for the pirate frigate with great speed, locked on and being maneuvered from their respective ships, allowing them to track and impact with the ship if it tried to maneuver out of the way. Jierk grunted.

"Tell six of the squadrons to go engage the enemy fighters and bombers, give them something to do." The order was given and 48 fighters peeled off and blasted straight for the enemy fighters. 96 missiles were fired into the array of fighters and bombers, tracking and weaving to hit their targets, followed up by lancing bolts of plasma, being fired by twin plasma cannons. Explosion punctuated space as battle was joined. An alarm klaxon sounded as one of the bridge crew turned, alarmed.

"Sir, we are detecting multiple breaches in the Arashii's ships hull! They are being boarded by several boarding craft!" The Commander lit a cigar and took a drag.

"Have two more squadrons go and strafe the bloody things off and sent a boarding party of our own. A company of Helljumpers should do the trick."

As he ordered, 16 more fighters turned and headed to the side of the ship which was hit by several boarding craft. On the Endless, 200 soldiers readied for battle. Battle-ready ODST's, the elite of the elite, the best soldiers the Imperium had wholesale. And the most elite of this bunch was the Helljumpers, the guys who willingly went into the drop pods to attack planets. They were arrogant, crazy and hardcore soldiers who got it done. "Move, move, move! The Captain has graciously given us some meat to hunt down and its in the form of some boarders on that poor ship out there. Now, we get to play the good cop and kick some major ass! Marines! WHO ARE WE?!"

They roared back. "HELLJUMPERS, SIR!"

"Damn right, now get into those ships and lets get moving." Four boarding craft flew out of a hangar and headed for the ship, fifty men in each craft. The two Longsword squadrons slashed past the ship, using the plasma cannons to attack and hopefully, vaporize the enemy boarding craft, so their own could come in and disgorge the counterboarders.

The pirates were not going to have a good day.

The soft thumping of gunfire could be heard from the bridge. James sat at his chair eyes locked on the view screen, His brow crumpled in concentration.

"Sir, I count 36 invaders. Level 3 inner ship defenses engaged." Elanor reported. her voice seemed distant, lost in her own thoughts.

James swiveled in his chair and looked at Elanor. "Wake them," He said softly.

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Six cryo-tubes sat quietly in a white room deep within the ship. Each one had a clear plastic lid, but they shown white due to the cold compressed gas that filled each tube.

Suddenly there was a loud crack and jets of white gas shot around the seals of the lid. With a soft humming sound the lids lifted revealing that each tube contained a soldier clad in power armor.

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The eyes of the power armor flicked on in a blue glow as they awoke and began to stir.

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Suddenly the ship rocked as multiple boarding ships were shot off the hull. With each boarding ship that was shot of a burst of air rushed out before the decks automatically shut the air tight doors.

"Sir they are shooting off the boarding part ships... multiple ships inbound... boarding craft from the new comers."

The boarding ships impacted with the Arashii, taking the place of the vaped pirate boarding craft and blowing again through the hull. Two hundred ODST Marines charged out, moving and securing hallway after hallway, room after room, as they moved to engage the pirates. They engaged their active camouflage systems, allowing them to blend into the environment. Ten fireteams were sent prowling through the hallways to find and pin down the enemy, and hold them there, until the rest could come, while the remaining one hundred and fifty secured a temporary HQ around the boarding craft.

Sergeant Carson stood there, reading reports as they came in the HUD of his helmet. He watched as the ten fireteams made their way into the base. A report of muffled gunfire was sent to him and he grinned. "Looks like these kids have some teeth after all on this ship."

OOC: Don't forget the ten torpedoes that were launched at the pirate frigate.

The combat that was dealt with earlier that week was now only a memory in Commander Lehighs mind. He had seen his fair share of problems, but as the Commander of the Hobbeebian Explorationary forces he was ordered to help all those in trouble and establish communications and relations. The Commander had a hard week as he rescued a crew from certain death. He now sent his time in his office giving reports to Hobbeebian Exploration Command.

But his wants and needs where secondary to his orders. Even he knew that. His office was dark as he wanted to relax before making way back to te next outpost. His loud exhales clearly could be heard... But duty called...

A yyoung ensign came rushing into his office. Commander Lehigh normally would have yelled for such an intrusion, but he was nice and simply looked at him.

" Sir. We are receiving a disstress signal from a ship about 200,000 km from here. A small frieghter I believe." reported the ensigh as he tried to keep his cool as he realised what he had done.

Commander Lehigh smiled and dismissed the ensign, and read over the reports. His heart dropped as he knew it was another rescue mission. Commander Lehigh walked out of his office and stood in the bridge of his ship and gave the orders..

" All ship prepare for combat. All medical teams prepare for wounded. And all boardin parties prepare for possible contact. Dime jump in 5 minutes.."

The 10 ships in the fleet all received their orders and made ready for the possible combat and the Dime jump that would place them in harms way. The ships all sat silently in space. When the bright white glow of the Demensional ate opened teleporting them to the combat zone.....



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Zone of comabt.... 3 seconds later

The Zone was hot with action as the Hobbeebian fleet made its appearance... a Bright glow again erupted in space no dought getting the attention of everyone in the area. As the fleet finally came into existance the fleet took aim at everyone. Commander Lehigh sent a message out

" This is Commander Lehigh of the Hobbeebian Explorationary forces for the Superior Majestic Imperium Of Hobbeebia. I am here to investigate the distress call. please respond."

ooc >.<

IC

The torpedoes racked across the pirate ship, The explosions tearing huge holes into its hull. The lights flickered for a moment before the ship whent dark.

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One of the Pirates screamed out in terror as he ran down hall, One of the soldiers in power armor was behind him, His sword unsheathed. The pirate turned down the corridor and spun around his rifle at his waist, When the Van guard turned the corner the pirate opened fire.

The bullets bounced off his armor as he continuted to charge, He brought the sword down in a hacking motion takeing the tip of the rifle off. He spun and slashed the mans stomach open, blood and innereds spilled out onto the deck The man twitched for a moment before falling to the ground dead.

The soldier looked up and scanned the corridor for his next target. The regular image scnned showed nothing but the thermal and motion tracker showed several cloaked men coming down the corridor. He stood and pointed towards the men, Telling them he knew they were there before he slide his right foot forward and gripped his sword in both hands prepareing to charge.

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Elanor gasped as the ships sensor readings picked up more ships.

"Sir more ships have arrived," He reported softly

"Where the hell do these guys come from!," James shouted

Suddenly the message sent by the newcomers came over the speakers of the bridge again the strange dialect didn't make any sense...

"Show them the video feeds too," James said softly

The Battle Barge Bloody Salvation flew through space as it picked up the distress call. Rafen sat quietly on his throne aboard the bridge of the ship. He laughed he was known as Captain Rafen the Ready hero and slayer of the pretender Arkio who was also his brother. He was now Captain of the 3rd Company of the Blood Angels Legion. He looked around softly and stood activating his commlink so his voice would broadcast across the ship. "Brothers we go to battle pirates against good people. The Imperium must protect and expand so as to unite all of humanity. We go to war to do this. Prepare for battle!" The great battleship folded space to appear in the combat zone in a huge flash of light. All that was seen was the broadside torpedo bays firing multiple assault pods. The vessels impacted on the side of the Pirate Frigate and in the first assault pod Rafen awaited.

The Blood Angels had arrived and the cry could be heard across all the comms in the area, "By the blood of Sanguinius!"