NationStates Jolt Archive

The small ship flitted through the asteroid field with ease. It was a recon drone, part of a larger fleet waiting to engage the hated 'Jerry'. It hovered at the edge of a small asteroid, then attached itself to it's sufrace and deployed scanning devices, looking for the Ih8uwannakillu fleet.

Abord the Dauntless, grand admeral thor stood surveying the asteroid feild, he knew that the half mechs would be here soon, and when they where he would have to heold off thier enier flete untill the reinforcements arived from the sheild belt.

"Admaral, im detecting a small object moving thrugh the feild, it appears to be a sensor drone. itslatched to one of the asteriods, its scanning for us" the sensor officer called across the bridge.
"Are we stil cloaked?" he asked the tactical officer.
"We are sir, should i deploy the fighters to take it out?"
"NO!!, that would reveal our position." pausing for a moment he said "activate the decoy probes, make it look like a fleet has droped in, are the traps set?"
"Yes sir"
"THEN LETS DO THIS THING PEOPLE"

The fleet warped in. 5 battleships, 3 destroyers and 7 frigates. That should be enough. The captains of each ship gave the order to advance. In a cresent formation, frigates at the fore, te fleet moved forward.

"They'r here sir."
"Signal the reinforcements, move the sensor gohsts around, make it look like we are engaging, ready the siesmic mines ."
"yes sir"
"mines ready, arming now sir"
"Crimson alert, take us to full stealth and hold position here."
Concealed amon the asteroids, the seismin mines activated in a brief pulse, any energy signature passin near one would triger it, at least cripling the sheilds, in thery atleast.

"All ships, hold ground." The ships stopped then scanned the area using sonar.

"They are scanning the asteroids sir"
"How long is untill reinforcement arive?"
"10 minutes sir"
"Move us on a sparodic course, fire transphasic torpedos at thier lead ship, that should entice em, create gohst fighter readings heading for them."

Seeing the apparent fighters on radar, the ships all launched their complement of fighters to intercept. They still held their ground.

"Transwarp window opening, here comes the fleet"
In space, a greenish white anomaly apeared and 6 ships exited it before it closed.
"SIX SHIPS!! six ships to hold them back?!? still i supse the war cruiser will help alot, hail all ships, tell them to engage but stay out of the asteroid feild."
"Sir yess sir!!"

The war cruiser, 2 dutchman class, (http://http://www.thescifiworld.net/img/wallpapers/stargate/mirko_stoedter/mirko38_1024x768.jpg) 2 divighn light (http://http://halowarscentral.com/media/sof.jpg) and the hat'ak class support ship (http://http://stargatethefull.free.fr/images/Hatak.PNG) began to form an assult wall, the hat'ak began to fire a magna canon from its tip, the battle had begun.

The Templarian fleet broke formation and the frigates divided into 'wolf packs' moving quickly around the slower capships. The destroyers fired huge rail guns carry a 37 megaton thermonuclear warhead, while the battleships broadsided the enemies with turbolaser and smaller ACSM missles which winged their way towards the two Divine Light-class ships.

As one the dragona ships charged thier sheilds, expanding them to encompass a small sphere of space in a white wall of energy.
The war cruiser opened up with the heavy cannons and it opened up its drone bays as it prepaired to launch its first salvo of drones.

Aboard the dauntless the admaral ordered "Decloak to heavy combat staus, open fire full bursts and remote detonate those seismic charges." Opening a chanel to the fleet, transmit mesage "advance thrugh remainder of asteroid feild, engage hostiles at close quaters, no mercy. advance after seismic detonation".

The charges detonated in a blinding flash of orange light and the surounding asteroids were vaporised the instant the explosion hit them, silently the ships advanced, little more than menacing shadows again the suden flare of light, still fiering, landing craft and support ships readed to launch. The war cruiser fired its first volly of 260 drones.

As one the dragona ships charged thier sheilds, expanding them to encompass a small sphere of space in a white wall of energy.
The war cruiser opened up with the heavy cannons and it opened up its drone bays as it prepaired to launch its first salvo of drones.

Aboard the dauntless the admaral ordered "Decloak to heavy combat staus, open fire full bursts and remote detonate those seismic charges." Opening a chanel to the fleet, transmit mesage "advance thrugh remainder of asteroid feild, engage hostiles at close quaters, no mercy. advance after seismic detonation".

The charges detonated in a blinding flash of orange light and the surounding asteroids were vaporised the instant the explosion hit them, silently the ships advanced, little more than menacing shadows again the suden flare of light, still fiering, landing craft and support ships readed to launch. The war cruiser fired its first volly of 260 drones.

The top of one of the destroyers open and missiles spilled out, heading to intercept the drones. The destroyers fired rail guns into the Dauntless.

the shield wall began to weaken as the ships passed thrugh it and restored thier shields. As the explosion died down they began to fire volly after volly at the lead ship, hoping to drop its sheilds for the rading partys.

At the Dragona I.S.N. command word the comanders watched on as the ships aproached each other and the drones began to hit misiles and sent a mesage to the fleet to "Deploy project Arcturas"

The hat'ak changed course, heading for the almost exact center of the asteroid feild, the central pyramids uper section opening out and sliding down the hull to form a square crss secton on the top of the pyramid.
Where from the flat square a barell began to rise vericaly glowing blue in long strips from varius coolant points along its exterior. Fighters began to swarm about the ship to protect Arcutras.

The fleet swapped fire into the Arcutras.

Shot after shot headed towards the arcturas weapon, many of them where blocked by fighters but a few did begin to impact on the shields.

Arcturas leveled up, revealing it to be a huge cannon, even more fighters began to swarm around it as its sheilds and other critical systems began to shut down and all power was caneled to the weapon
"Project Artcuras is ready to fire"
"All ships, initiate tactic killing strike"

All the ships stoped where they where and began to open up with thier most powerful guns. The barrel of Arcturas began to glow blue as a multi-frequeny energy charge built up then, with a roaring sound was unleased at the nearest templarian ship, EM energy 'onion peeling' off it, the newest and most devastaing of WMDs had been unleeshed.