NationStates Jolt Archive

The channels were filled with music considered patriotic by most Asolvak people, fighters flew in tight formation over now ruined cities of the Dictatorship of Kurag had fallen. It was near perfect propaganda, the media got to interview a small minority of people that been ‘oppressed’ by the old regime (completely ignoring the hundreds more people who were now locked up in detention facilities, most of whom were innocent), the old government lay in ruins (no talk of how the old government had been an excellent organization that had at worst put fifty people to death after destroying a major hospital) and everything was all around better (despite the fact that there was no infrastructure left operational due to mass carpet bombings.) Yes, for the glorious Asolvak Alliance it was a good day.

Asolvak wasn’t really an alliance; it was more like an empire or dictatorship. Sure the people got to vote, but the choices were either slightly more expansionist or slightly more isolationist, with the same people seemingly always ending up in power. The stupidity of humans is what kept the system ticking over, but then again, it wasn’t all that bad. Everyone had some sort of job or activity that allowed them to make a living, and no one was ever left in the lurch due to government bureaucracy. All in all, the planets of the alliance happily continued on.

The Kurag system was rich in minerals and other vital substances that the Asolvak armed forces needed for their next phase, the first push ever out of their relatively small cluster of stars. Outside the cluster no one knew what was waiting, but whatever was out there, the people of Asolvak as a whole were absolutely convinced that they would be able to handle it. After all, weren’t they the greatest military power ever? Did they not have the most advanced technologies? The galaxy would tremble in fear before the might of the Asolvak Alliance.

But, as with most propaganda; it is naught more than just that; an idea; a delusional state of mind and unfortunately, the people who ran the Alliance had grown up listening to that propaganda as well, they believed it with all their hearts and minds. They were in for a very, very sudden and abrupt awakening from their day dreams.

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The ships exited Vector space, fifty six in all. As the first wave they were there to conduct analysis of the systems current level of activity, find potential targets and then direct the second waves attacks once they arrived. The system was apparently a major trading hub of some kind, with hundreds of different vessels of varying designs inhabiting it. What shocked the crews of the Asolvak ships were the myriad of energy signatures with none that were instantly recognizable to them. It was confusing, but at the same time exhilarating. It was true then; there were more than Humans in the universe. Before them was an opportunity to rule this galaxy, then another one after this one was conquered, and then the glorious Asolvak empire would be the one true power in the universe.

Several hours later, a fleet consisting of over a three hundred warships entered the system. From there they immediately split into pre designated packs and began approaching targets specified by the first wave. They also began launching long range missiles at several large, unidentified stations in orbit of what seemed to be the primary planet of the system. The Asolvak alliance was going to be greatest power in the known universe, of that the ships crews were sure.

OOC: Aloha, while this is a new nation, I myself am not. Whoever wants to claim ownership of the system is free to do so, and please feel free to beat my nations forces into a bloody pulp.

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The attack came so fast that everyone was caught off guard. The ships had been sitting in nuetral territory, just outside the border. However when the multiple warships arrived the orbital cannons opened up, trying their best not to hit any civilian ships. Everything was falling apart and fast, ships were being mowed down and the cannons were badly outnumbered, there were only nine of them. This was a new system and most of the ships were meant to colonize. What was worse, a Greywatch Worldstarter was on the surface of the planet, though its shields would hold any assault if it were captured it would become a library of information about Greywatch. As the last of the cannons exploded, the few warships began engaging the enemy as all non-militant ships opened up PSRs, which resembled the maw of some massive beast, and fled to Greywatch Prime to alert the council of what had happened. The surface of the planet had been warned but had almost no defense, they had one anti orbital platform set up and it was only at half-power. Things were already looking grim for the new system. Only three other planets were here, and the twin suns made one of the other planets inhospitable to say the very least.
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When the ships returned to Greywatch Prime the council was immediately alerted of the chaos that was happening in the new system. With only an hour long meeting the decision was made. Three worldslayers as well as several frigates would be deployed to crush the enemy, a special order was given: Any Greywatch crew who brought back an enemy ship or crew relatively intact would recieve a free month long vacation at Pegasus Gardens. That was enough to get most soldiers motivated for a war against an enemyu that had just crossed the line and thenm some. In thirty minutes, they would head out and mop up.

Weak, pathetic, useless. That was what the Asolvak commanders thought of the enemy’s futile resistance. Sure they received some damage from the enemy’s defensive forces, but no ships were lost and only a single ship was destroyed by the defenders ships. Sheer strength in numbers prevailed, but the enemy had shown surprising resilience to their initial barrage of railgun fire, but that had been due to long held habits of Asolvak crews to target areas that looked ‘sensible’ (ignoring the fact that what was sensible to an Asolvak crew may not be to any other sentient being.)

With the majority of the enemy ships subdued, the next part of the operation was to assume orbital superiority and prepare for the third wave of ships to arrive. In the mean time, simple mass produced missile satellites were placed into high orbit above the planet to supplement the fleet’s fire power should the enemy arrive before the third wave.

OOC: Being sick is not good at all, in fact it’s horrible. Sorry for the delay in response.

ooc: im bored and i want to expand and this seems like a fun thing :D so can i hop in? i wont do much..other than learn, adapt,shift and ultimatly assimilate.
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High Level emmisions had been coming from a system not to far from the fringes of New Kewen Territory, A small fleet of 2 Pod craft and a Battle pod was dispatched to the system too see if it was possible to learn new things and meet new people.

The Fleet entered the system to see wreckage of many types of ships and quite a large fleet above a planet in what was without a doubt a quite hostile patteren, Engaging their sheilds the 1kmish pod craft moved till the battke oid was between them, the battle pods 2km by 2km faces refelected the light as the large cubed moved towards the planet by some unseen engines.


""hail to thee newcomers of this system above planet in obvious hotile patterns, we are the Kewen may we know what is going on here?"

Kennedy sighed as he watched the radar came online. They had spotted a sizeable fleet about to blast a planet apart just to colonise it for very little reason. They were warned about this and a much larger Imperial Lynion Navy was about to intcept them.

"How many warships do we have?" asked Kennedy to Sky Marshall Tzu.

"40 Frigates and Destoryers, 20 Cruisers, 15 Battle cruisers and two super-dreadnoughts as well as 40 Battle Satelites following us," answered Tzu as Jian came onto the bridge.

"That makes us around 60... 75.... 117 warships and maybe around 400 fighter jets?" asked Jian.

"450 fighter jets sir," replied Tzu.

"we'll wait for a moment and see what they intend to do. Meanwhile, prepare the fleet to make a backwards hyper jump," finished Kennedy.

Another PSR rift was opened only an hour after the other ships fled bring the true Greywatch Prime fleet down on their enemies. Their were three Greywatch Worldslayer ships, each one 38Km in length and they were accompanied with cruisers and frigates of all sizes and classes. A transmission was put through.
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Unencrypted Message to all ships in area:
<You have entered a system which the Greywatch Empire claimed not just two weeks ago and fired on our ships. This attack was uncaled for and now you will be punished. Anyone who does not wish to be destroyed should leave the system now. The scum who have attacked us have been sentenced to death.>
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With that, the ships fired a barrage at the ships that had attacked them. They were easilyrecognizeable by the weapons signatures. Railguns didn't matter to the Greywatch fleet, they had all that and more. The Worldslayers opened up using their signature weapon, The Slayer Beam Cannon. They each fired only one shot at the enemy fleet, with any luck it would all end there.
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Encrypted Message amoung Greywatch fleet:
<Remember boys and girls, we capture 'em and we get it easy for awhile. Tear it up.>

OOC: Its fine, I was wondering when this would come back. Kewen, if you wanna try taking the world I claimed go at it but know the Greywatch fleet will resist with everything they have at their desposal.

OOC: Greywatch, just to nitpick, but you can't claim you destroyed enemy ships. That's for Asovlak to do.To say you destroyed X ships of another nation is called godmodding.

OOC: Yes yes I'm well aware of this rule, fair enough. I'll edit this now, though in all fairness, using said cannons disables all ship weaponry for at least 5-20 minute RP wise. Editing, if the PC will go any faster...

OOC2: You comment on this and not the CP coup thread. If you really wanna nitpick go there for me. Please and thankyou.

With the apperance of another fleet and more fire ththree kewen ships prepared to fire their main guns, The Pod craft each carried a single Multitap gun able to take or cut a decent chunck out of a planet on its highest setting, while the Battlepod carrier two the ships shimmered for a second before the maun hull began spliting in two soon a very large and dangerous looking fun could be seen on each podcraft while the Battlepod jut opened one of its tips dark red energy being to accumulate at the tips of the guns

"Hail to all fleets, we are the Kewen"

<Hail un-IDed ships, this is our space and we are in the process of reclaiming it. I suggest you stay out of this.>

The sheer size of the new ships awed the Asolvak crews; each one was larger than the In Death’s Sight, the most high-tech vessel in the entire Asolvak fleet. While some had imagined that ships of that size existed outside of the Alliance, they had only ever thought there would be one or two more like it. Now they were forced into a very disturbing revelation, they weren’t a major player in the galaxy; in fact they were relatively tiny. It was futile, their invasion was all for naught.

As the enemy fired their main weapon, a sense of despair fell across the combined ships as nearly two thirds of their fleet was annihilated in an instant. Ironically, the only ships to actually survive the cannons directly were the small Hammerhead Corvettes. Although small, they had a unique forward armour configuration that had not once been breached by any fire directed at it, ever. Once you got past the front of the ship however, they had extremely thin, insignificant armour.

The remaining ship initiated a withdrawal, each ship traveling a significant distance from one another to discourage the enemy sniping them from afar. It was all they could do until the third wave of ships arrived, and then they could hopefully retreat from the system in good order. It was obvious they couldn’t win with any of the planed deployments.

The Imperial Lynion Fleet just came out of hyperspace and sat there waiting for a moment.

"Greywatch Empire, this is the Imperial Lynion Navy," started Kennedy. "Do you require anymore help?"

Encrypted Message to Imperial Lynion Fleet:

<Any help given will be much appriciated if you're offering. This fleet is small, too small to take over a world. Certainly too small to think that attacking any world they please would be a good idea. They're retreating for now though, obviously not too much to worry about... yet. They may have some other ships behind them. We cannot be sure however, be on alert.>

OOC: Also, I will be having a post detailing a Shade ship watching soon, if that doesn't ruin anything Asovlak.

OOC: Hey hey, no need to get hostile, I admit I was in the wrong. All I was doing was making a simple suggestion, thought you in the group of RPers that check the forums to make sure no Godmodding is going on. Sorry if I offended you in any way, that was NOT in any way my intention.

OOC: Sorry, the way it read, it looked like it was. My bad.

OOC: No problem, happens all the time, its prolly the way I word things. Anywho, the cooldown time is for all to know, just so it doesn't seem like my Worldslayers have an infinite amount of weapon capacity.

The crews were in a panic, the chain of command was broken and the third wave was waltzing straight into a trap. However, the enemy had stopped shooting, so at least they had that going for them.

With incredible fanfare the third wave of ships arrived, amongst them were FTL communications vessels with media representatives onboard. Also the flagship for the operation, the Undying Flame, a dreadnaught, was with them. They were only meant to be there for show, not for actual combat. However, upon entering the system they found a situation that they couldn’t comprehend. Allied ships were virtually nonexistent, yet the number of unknown vessels exceeded their comprehension. It took nearly a full minute for every single newly arrived Asolvakian to comprehend the situation. They were losing. Already the footage was being broadcast, straight into the homes of every Asolvak citizen. There were no controls in place so confidant the public relations officers had been. It hit the entire Alliance almost simultaneously and shook even the leaders into silence. They were losing, they were losing, they were losing…

Immediately the remnants of the first and second waves informed the fleet of what had happened, including full images of the enemies super weapons. These images were being transmitted on a channel the media was being given full access to, and subsequently the civilians of the empire. Shook; horror; fear; despair; all these words and many more could be used to describe that day by an Asolvakian. But in this chaos, something snapped. Something small, something nearly insignificant by its self; but it wasn’t by its self; it was in the greatest upheaval in the Alliance in over a hundred years. It is said that if someone undertakes the right action at exactly the right time that what once was impossible may become highly probable, or something that was capable of being done is forever made impossible. In briefest of moments, a single action by a single ship changed history. One warship turned to face the enemy once more. It was a small gesture, and one that was ultimately futile, but it was still of great significance to Asolvak. Shortly after another ship turned, then another. The remnants of the first and second waves turned away from the welcoming arms of the third wave; instead they made their way towards the enemy, assuming a formation that was woefully inefficient for combat. No, this was no formation of war, but that of peace, a simple military parade. Then, for the first time ever these Asolvak ships sent out a message. It was simple, it was short, and it was all they could do.

“I, the captain of this here ship, the Stingray, hear by offer the complete and total surrender of the first and second waves of the Asolvak first expeditionary fleet. We were foolish people brought up on years of lies, the lies of those who have sought only power, the lies we ourselves helped spread. We are the foolish, we are the weak, we were the ones who were wrong, and as such it is my duty as a member of the Asolvak Alliance Space Navy to stop our inevitable destruction. The only way to do this is to surrender my ship, and every other member of this fleet is willing to do the same. We have seen what’s out there, and if you deploy such powerful forces into such a small battle you must have enemies of similar power. We cannot win any wars for we know nothing more than what we told. We are not the ones who can conquer the universe; we can’t even take one star system without using the entirety of our forces. The only option left is to force our homeland into peace, something that we haven’t known in a very, very long time. With that I intend this message for both you and my compatriots. They shall withdraw their fleets, they shall return home as a disgrace, a disgrace that reflects the entire Alliance as a whole.”

The other ships listened in silence, then it was broken by a single voice, that of the Admiral in charge. “Traitors of the Asolvak Alliance, you shall now be executed; this is under my authority as the leader of this expedition.” The line went silent. Then, the Stingray responded. “Very well, but remember this, we have seen what they can do, we have seen the very fires of hell. What do we have left to fear?” With that the Stingray, a Hammerhead, simply continued on its course along with every other ship in formation with it. With engines at full power, the Asolvak fleet closed in on them.

The kewen had been listening and from what they could tell or inflect this was a rather nobel action so, to make sure this went right and the fact this could spoilt a chance to learn the Battlepod and accompanying ships spranginto action when they sawthe Asolvakian fleet moving in on their own
the Balls of energy accumulating at the muzzels of the massive guns discharge bright red and gold lances of energy streaked out towards the Asolvakian Drednaught each of these beams was easily able to rpi a continent off of a planet at full power the Battle pods beams were sent to full while the podcrafts were set to 56.7% the four beams racedtowards the Drednaught.
ooc: i hope you can recive video for the love of god
A simple message was sent to the rest of the Asolvakian fleet only video too if they could get it
The messaged showed a room full of towering snakes each easily 100 meters long in various states but each had one thing in common their eyes glowed red and their fangs were bared there teeth smiering, One of the snakes started to turn silver to his form began shrinking till it looked vagly humanish it spoke
"Leaveeee Your brethernsssss alone, the are sssssaving you from destructionssss do not meddless in thingssss you cannot cccomprehend" said the figure a red forked tounge darting out from between its pale lips

The Greywatch fleet had no idea what to make of this new action, by all means they were suspicious but bretheren turning on each? That was hard to fake. Then a command came forth, "Star Shadows, drop your clones and escort, all other ships form a protective wall. We'll hear what they have to say for now." Then the Kewen ships fired and the bridge of the leading Worldslayer was sent into disarray for a moment, a combat officer yelled out, "Captains! Neutral ships have fired! They're weapons are similar to our own, orders?" One of the captains truned around, "Get those other ships some cover. We need them alive!" With that the other two Worldslayers moved forward. A transmission was sent to the leading enemy ship,
<Stand down now, follow the example set by your bretheren. Greywatch is only hostile to those who start the hostility and we know how forgive people who try to make up for their mistakes. I repeat, stand down, you have no chance of winning this fight, especially with two fleets against your own.>
The other Worldslayers were moving in to help the frigates secure the ones who had surrendered.
<Surrendering ships, this is Worldslayer ship Foeslayer. Direct yourselves to our hanger bays and prepare to be taken in. All frigates, escort them here and then engage any enemy foolish enough to get too close. Harbingers, deploy fighters and engage the enemy now.>
The Harbingers took no time and opened their hanger doors. Each one held at least 300 small fighters that rushed out like bees from a hive. Star Shadows began dropping cloak systems to show as a display of what the other hostile ships were about to get involved with. The lead Worldslayer put forth another message, this time encrypted and only to within the Greywatch fleet.
<All cruisers, move in and take out their lead ship if they get fiesty. Let's pray it doesn't come to that, there's a few questions I know we all want answered.>
Several cruisers began moving forward at slow speed. They wanted to lull the enemy into a false sense of security by appearing slower than they really were. If combat was something they could avoid, all the better, but the Greywatch fleet wasn't about to stand down. The Worldslayers still had a few minutes to go before their weapons systems we back online, the Slayer Cannon took a lot of power and had a long cooldown time.

The third wave had no idea what they were getting themselves in for, and the fact was they didn’t care. Unlike the first two waves the third actually had weapons that were far more powerful, and their ships were also much quicker and much better defended. They were a competent, highly trained, and highly motivated. What they lacked was restraint, a value not taught in Asolvak combat doctrine. They unleashed their weapons at the first opportunity, not waiting for the rest of ships, and thus failed to concentrate their fire. They exclusively targeted the ‘traitorous’ ships first and foremost, not caring about the significant danger they were in. As several frigates were torn apart by the fire, the Kewen message, and video feed, reached the Asolvak fleets attention. They were simply shocked by the creatures they saw, and were momentarily left without the ability to do anything other than stare. And then, when the enemy’s weapons made two cruisers and several escort frigates evaporate, it seemed to them as if the universe had come to a screeching halt. Then the dreadnaught was hit. It was forced back by the sheer power of the enemy’s opening barrage, leaving the forward section with a gaping hundred ninety meter hole in it. Emergency bulkheads dropped down to seal the breach, but over five hundred crew had been killed instantly, with further two hundred dying due to micro fractures that could only be detected to late.

Chaos rained, and it was then that the Greywatch vessels revealed themselves, revealing a technology that Asolvak had long tried to develop but had ultimately failed. But they were members of the Asolvak alliance, and they would win, they had to. The weapons they returned fire with were pathetic compared to the awesome spectacles the other fleets had unleashed before, but they were still effective. Massed railgun fire was brought upon the Greywatch fleet, while thousands of missiles were launched against the Kewen fleet. The dreadnaught, although damaged, still had the capability to fight back. From concealed ports, massive particle charged particle accelerators, or as they were more commonly referred to, ion cannons, emerged. After the initial charge up, six ruby beams lanced outwards in the direction of the lead Worldslayer. And yet that was not enough in the minds of the Asolvak gunnery crews, and so the HVTs were readied. These weapons launched at an initial speed of .99C, and then further accelerated by the single burst engine. Originally designed for planetoid deconstruction, the HVTs (Hyper Velocity Torpedoes) had been used as a threat against a rival superpower during the early expansion of the Alliance.

Of the surrendering ships, they did not bother firing back, simply changing their course to comply with the Grywatch fleet. They were not afraid any more, they simply had stopped caring about themselves, instead they felt a duty to protect the Asolvak people who knew no better.

Another mesage was sent video again
"You have been warned" screeched the lead person on the bring soon the bridge crew began shifting,changing and reforming into various creatures vaguely humanish leaving the once packed room now mostly empty save 15-20 humanish people.

The Asolvak missle barage slammed into the face of the Battlepod its sheilds glowing bright green as it tried to withstand this opening barrage. the shiel flicked off and yet more Asolvak missles streamed in hitting the second sheild this time it held dropping to 67% the battlepod was hurt but not destroyed.

The kewen fleet moved in and weapons port long the Battlepods hull opened up revealing row upon row upon row of guns and lasers across each face the Pod accelerated determined to reach the heart of the Asolvak fleet the drednaught. its sole target.

"These guys are insane..." Said one of the captains of the lead Worldslayer. Several frigates were torn apart instantly before another PSR was torn open in front of the barrage, the immense gravitational pull actually turned many of the oncoming weapons into the rift. Unfortunantly they had lost about 60 ships from the last barrage and the lead ship was now at 87% shielding, mainly due to a transportation officers quick thinking. The captain turned around, "You, my firend, are going on vacation even if I have to pay for it." The officer nodded and the captain focused on the screen again as the rift began to close.
<Other Worldslayer ships, Foeslayer and Skywaker, move in. Take those things down. Disable the lead ship, I want that thing in a museum.>
<Nuetral fleet, thank you for your assistance, please do not destroy that enemy lead ship. We are attempting to take it back in relatively one piece.>
The other ships move forward, the Greywatch fleet was pissed off. Harbingers deployed several fighters to take out the frigates. More Star Shadow ships appeared behind the enemy and opened fire.
<Star Shadow ships, use live uranium rounds and fire at engine and weapons systems.>
Farseer ships near the worldslayer ships opened fire with Greywatch's signature weapon, the sniper turret. Its large, high-velocity, armor piercing shells were firing at enemy weapons systems. The other two Worldslayers' weapons came back on line and the took no time opening fire on the enemy ships. This time they moved forward, shields at full, firing every weapon that have a decent angle, there were near one thousand weapons being fired at the enemy from the Worldslayers alone. Other Greywatch cruisars were already moving in at full speed.
<Determine if they have shields. If they do, knock 'em out and load bordering craft.>
Then an encrypted message was put through the surendering ships:
<If you notice, we're right above you and staying put here. Two firgates are guiding you in right now, just follow them in, the bay doors are open and AG locks will be put in place as soon as your inside.>

The Asolvak ships lacked the endurance of the other ships on the field of battle, and the fact they didn’t the fire power required to win the battle made the situation seem bleak. But they were still confident; they were after all members of the Asolvak Alliance Space Navy were they not? They couldn’t afford to lose.

The massive dreadnaught suffered several major hits that nearly incapacitated it, but with all major Asolvak capital ships, it simply activated another backup system and soldiered on. The smaller ships were not so lucky, and thus heavy losses were sustained by all escorts. By this time the third wave was down by at least thirty percent of its force.

Fire control was now virtually nonexistent, automated SOS beacons flooded all channels making communications difficult. But some fire was directed at the Kewen ships, and the full force of the dreadnaughts weapons were turned once more upon the lead Worldslayer.

Now ignored by the third wave, the remnants of the first and second waves slipped into the mighty hanger bays of the Foeslayer.

Not expecting a second go at it the lead Worldslayer took the full hit, bringing its weapons down to 30%. "Divert power from stern weapons to the forward shield!" Yelled one of the captains. "Bastards."
<Cruisars, bording craft now!>
Just then, several bording craft, most of them filled with Greywatch Drone soldier and mechs were fired at the lead ship. Whatever these people were on had to do with what was inside the ship, it was time to tear its insides out. Another message was put through to the Kewen fleet.
<We have men on that ship, do not fire. Let us handle this now. Your assistance has been much appiriciated but we must now finish this.>
Onboard the Foeslayer, Artificial Gravity locks clamped the surrendered ships in place. Engineers and soldiers were running up and down the hanger to make sure everything was ready.
<Members of the surrendering force, please direct yourself to the nearest physical exit of your ship. I repeat, go to the near exit so that our engineers can actually bring you aboard.>
The Skywaker could now do its job, it with several cruisar moved in to mingle with the enemy fleet. Frigates and Cruisar started firing upon enemy engines at 50% normal power as to disable them, it wouldn't be long now.

ooc: Greywatch you dont have men on the ship you have men heading to the ship and you cant say they clapmed on thats godmod what about PD? and stuff>.> <.<

The Battle Pod shook as a another salvo hit but its sheilds held it continued speeding into the Asolvak fleet running over a few smaller escorts and crushing them withits bulk. The Weapons bays activated and barrage upon salvo and missles beams andlasers were fired from every face on the cube Green beams lashed out to nearby smaller ships that were disabled or weaked first the beams would cut of the engines then it would be tractored in, Red beams zipped towards other ships purly to destroy them.

Then it all happened The Battlepod came closer and closer to the Drednaught and it wasnt stopping The cube angled itself so that a Point was facing the ship it was undeinable that it was going to ram the weakened ship.

Near the edge of the battle the twin Pod craft were struck by weapons fire but for the most part unharmed they again Charged and fired their Multitap guns into the battle this time at 89%

OOC: I can't? I thought I couldn't say how many casualties I took. PD? Is that supposed to mean planetary defense? I never said I had men on the enemy ship, I said they were on the boarding craft being launched at the enemy ship...

ooc: Point defenseand before you post said "the borders clamped onto the enemy ship i see you edited

It happened so quickly, with the tortured sound of metal stressed beyond breaking point, the Kewen ship hit the dreadnaught instantly removing a full eighth of the ships mass. There was no way in hell any normal ship could fight on, and yet the Asolvak ship refused to die. Even with most of the ship annihilated and many systems of line it still fired of salvo after salvo. Cracks began to spread across the hull, venting precious atmosphere and reducing the crew’s numbers even further, but that didn’t stop it. More fire was directed at the enemy Worldslayer, and in the process several weapons melted due to overuse. The other smaller ships had all but ceased fighting now, so damaged they were, most could barely sustain life support let alone fire weapons. All that remained was the dreadnaught, and it was sure to go down any second.

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Meanwhile the crews of the surrendering ships began to exit from various hatches, they looked and felt tired, and they had no will left in them to fight. They didn’t resist at all, they simply waited for the next set of orders.

OOC: Kewen, quick question: If my cruisar are firing boarding craft and your ramming the head ship. Would this not mean that despite the two messages I sent your fleet, you are still deciding to ignore my request and running into my boarding craft, destroying them, because you don't care about my fleet's, the owners of the system, feelings?

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The lead Worldslayer took the next hit without any problem, the forward shields were reinforced and scans were showing heavy abuse was being taken by the enemy ship.
<Unknown vessel. Cease with your ramming, we've already stated we need that ship in one piece!>
The other two Worldslayers began to surround the enemy lead ship, along with multiple cruisars and frigates. Now if only the unknown ships would listen perhaps the Greywatch fleet could come out of this with all of its objectives complete. The lead Worldslayer wasn't in the bast of conditions, most of its weapons were offline to give support to the shields.
<Enemy ship this is your last chance. You are fighting two fleets, your stupidity is already well known to my people just from watching this battle. What have you to gain from this? What? Honor? How much is that going to be worth when your homeworld finds that when you could have easily stood down and created diplomatic relation you instead decided that a pointless fight to the death was the best option?>
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The ships would find themselves facing officers of the Greywatch fleet, including honor guard. Honor guard were the fierce warriors meant to bodyguard VIPs, their ceremonial armor and longswords were deadly enough that they often didn't use guns. The men would also meet another race, the Leanorians, a lion-like race of humanoids that typically stood 5'10" to 6'8" tall. Their golden fur shimmed in the light of the hanger bay, as they smiled to greet their new guest their teeth were bared. Not in hostility, but because they honestly couldn't help it. "All surrendering forces report here. Drones are on their way to give the next set of orders."

ooc: Listen, i didnt hit any of your bording craft, i was closer and was already heading there so your pods would hit me coz your ships are futher away then mine so i would arrive first !

IC

The Battle Pod replied to the buzzings of the second fleet
"you will get your ssssship in one peice" stil firmly wedge into the Drednaught the cube made no signs of leaving other than Multiple tractorbeams coming from the edges of the cube pulling damaged or Disabled Aslovak craft into a hanger bay where prodcudes would commece to get the crew out and the ship rejected into space.

The Weapons on the cube stopped firing at the small ships and began seletivly targeting anything on the Drednaught still firing

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The tip wedged into the Dreadnaught opened slightly and a fountain of Silver liquid sprayed forth into the ship.
Moments later the stream ebbed away and the large puddle formed into a group and ten huminiod things the promptly began to move off in serch of the Command center of this ship armed with weird blue glowing weapons and assortments of various other wepons the broke into a run.

OOC: See now, that's what confused me, to my knowledge I began moving forward before you and I sent you 3 messages so how am I supposed to know what you're intending to do if you won't respond to my ships' hails before taking action? Wait... It's godmodding to say my boarding craft clamp, not even cut through the hull, just clamp, but you're allowed to ram him and just inject the ship with soldiers no problem?
Seriously, what?

IC:

Anther message was send to the Kewens:
<Keep at least some of these people alive, including the commander of the vessle. We don't know what you want or why you're here but this is our world they attacked. I think we have the right to question the commander ourselves and find out everything we can from him. We also want the crew, they should not be killed as I'm sure most of them are on the same drugs he's on, whatever they may be. We need him alive, so if you would be so kind as to not simply slaughter everyone onboard, that would be most appriciated.>

ooc: eeek no you misunderstand, My Battlecube was moving towards his dredy before you launched bording pods. it got close WHEN you shot your bording pods and the only reason why i cliamed yours was a Godmod was becasue small boreding craft can be shot down by PD while a massive cube with 2km by 2km faces cant be stopped but PD or whats left of his fleet.

IC:

"Not our Intention"

OOC: Ah, you see, now this all makes more sense.

*bump/prods Anslovak multiple times*

*repeats previous action*
ooc: yoohoo Asolvak

OOC: I’m sorry, apparently I wasn’t quite over the cold and working cause I have near zero funds didn’t help either. So for the last however many days I have been using my free time either sleep. P.S. Jolt ate my last post so I’m not too happy with the system.

IC:

The survivors of the first and second waves were full of both awe and fear at the sight of the guards, creatures similar to monsters from legends of old. Upon reaching the designated area, they formed a mass of bodies with no real cohesion. Well, there were two who seemed to have some plan; one was the captain of the Stingray, her name was Aseria, a young commander that had shown much promise before the invasion, the other was a relatively low ranking soldier, most likely a member of the first wave. But his attitude, the way he moved, something just seemed wrong. Despite the fact he had surrendered he seemed to think he was in control of the situation, whenever he looked in the direction of the Greywatch contingent, he simply smiled, almost as if he was the one in control. His voice was loud and it was clear, there was no hesitation at all as he began issuing instructions to the assembled crews.

Slowly, they began to reform, and while he controlled the mass, Aseria organized the individual crews into something other than a chaotic mass of people. It was an unspoken, but mutually understood agreement.

When the Asolvakian crews were in what could be described as a military parade style formation, the two made their way to the front of the assembled crews and took positions of authority at the front of the group.

The others didn’t speak a word, seemingly kept silent by the sheer willpower of the two people that had taken joint command. Then he spoke once more, and again his clarity of speech was impressive. “We of the Asolvak Space Navy here by offer our complete and total surrender, we have realized that we are in the wrong, and although it shames me to say it, my homeland has attacked you without any provocation or prior attempts at contacting you, something that our alliance’s founding documents expressly forbid. It is therefore my duty as a member of the very forces meant to protect it that I must surrender, and hopefully show them the error of their ways. However, I am only the spokesperson for this group; our commander from this point forward is the woman standing beside me. Any dialogue you wish to engage in should be with her, not me.” He finished his speech, and then took a step back, placing himself behind Aseria.

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The dreadnaught was dead, the hull screeched and moaned as superheated metal cooled; and of the crew that had once numbered over nine thousand only thirty were still alive. All were located in the third damage sub control room, located deep within the ship’s hull. Shortly after the Kewen ship had rammed it, the reactor lit up like a miniature sun, blazing outwards through emergency venting systems causing a little heat damage. Now small backup generators activated, and emergency shielding that had suffered glitches due to battle damage finally activated, creating a breathable atmosphere inside the ship, though certain parts were beyond salvage.

As for the rest of the fleet, it was broken, no more ships were combat capable and of the surviving ships only three actually had engines that could be theoretically activate, although that was pointless at this stage. The crews simply waited to be captured by the Greywatch vessels.

When the Drednaught stopped shooting so did too the Cube it deployed a few dozen more teams of three into the Ship before disloding itself, the Pod craft moved into the battle zone and began tractoring any damaged ship extracting the crews putting them in a safe area then feeding the ship to the pools.

The Cube did the same except at a faster pace having four Hangers to the pod crafts measly one each.


In Inside each hanger bay were rows upon rows of troops in black clad armour and helmets guns ready and waiting and at a Pathway leading deeper into the ship lay coiled and waiting was a large snake (think Harry potter and Chamber of secret Large end of movie snake thing) they waiting.


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Inside the Drednaught the kewen Teams began searching room by room deck by deck for surviours and tagging the dead with a small GPS having cleared almosted 1/4 of the ship they hoped they would find someone alive.

All the Worldslayers pushed forward and began surveying the damage.

<All enemy ships, prepare to be boarded and towed.>

A number of frigates and cruisars began activating tractor beams and pulling the diabled ships to the Worldslayers.

<Kewen fleet, can you handle the inside of the main ship while we handle everything out here?>
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The doors opened and a number of Drones stormed out. Black hair, teeth, nails, eyes, lips, and clothing as well as very pale skin. This was the sight of a Drone, no emotion, no life, they were the monsters, the ghosts, the demons of Greywatch's military. They all looked alike and before long there were fifty of them in the control room. Anyone could tell from the looks of them that they didn't need weapons to kill someone. They all smiled before speaking simutaniously, "We are the Drones. We will take you to the Containment chambers were you shall wait until the captains wish to speak to you." The honor guard clenched their swords, even they didn't like the Drones. The Leanorians tried to avoid making eye contact with the creatures, the Drones were against everything they stood for.

"taken care of" was sent to the Greywatch ships only

The crews of the ships had already given up, so there was no real attempt to fight back. They simply complied with all instructions. On the dreadnaught the remaining crew emerged from their near tomb, a few anti personal weapons in hand. They weren’t sure what was out there, but whatever it was had destroyed a very powerful ship very quickly. All of a sudden something that was most definitely alien came into view, panic set in, all the training they had was of basic weapons use and a few mock battles, nothing more. They started firing wildly down the corridor, missing the Kewen boarding party entirely. When their weapons ran out of ammo they turned and ran, not checking to see if they had hit anything.

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Aseria shuddered at the sight of the creatures, something just didn’t feel right, but then again, they were aliens, maybe that was how some aliens were. She motioned for the Asolvakian crews to follow their hosts, but waited for the every person to pass before following them herself. After all, she wanted to know who her self appointed second in command was. He seemed to understand and waited for the rest to go on ahead, and then he began walking alongside her. “First question, who are you?” Aseria asked. “Me, I’m supposedly a member of the Asolvak Space Navy. Name’s Zayat, what’s your second question?” He asked in reply. “Why are you so confident?” She asked. “I’m alive, and that means I must have some part to play in future proceedings.” He replied, his voice filled with the same confidence it had earlier. “Just because you’re alive you think you have some greater role to play? Most likely that’s just your ego speaking.”He began to laugh at her previous statement. “I think that way because it is the only way one can keep his mind in situations like this, to think any other way is to invite a host of negative emotions that would destroy my ability to form coherent actions. It’s all in the teachings of Mister Omaka, my home planets spiritual leader.” She sighed, a crazy religious nut case, exactly what she needed at this point in time.

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In Asolvak things had come to a complete standstill, industry had ground to a halt, shipping lanes were empty, and cities lay silent. A thick blanket of fear had settled over the people, nothing made sense anymore. In hurriedly organized briefings fleet captains were being given redeployment orders, tactical data on enemy strengths and possible weaknesses. A new strategy was formed; all fleet assets were to go on the defensive. They would then wait and see if the enemy would attack or not.

Just in case however, the Asolvakian government readied a small ship, little more than a hammerhead, and for the first time in a generation actually dispatched an ambassador to meet the enemy.

OOC: OMG You're back!
IC:

Drones began pointing to individual groups and beckoning them to follow. An honor guard then spoke, her voice was suprisingly gentle for am elite soldier, "When a Drone beckons you, follow them closely. If anyone tries to break off from their group, expect to be killed by automated defenses inside the ship. We are currently operating on Genocide Protocol Rank 2. Nuetrals are kept alive but enemies will be destroyed, anyone breaking off from their group becomes an immediate enemy." The Drones then spoke, "We will lead you in packs of 25 to contanement centers. You will have beds and food. As of the moment, we do not have any reasons to kill you, don't give us one."
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Menawhie in space, Greywatch ships simply began mopping up. They weren't destroying enemy ships but instead towing them to safety, away from the Worldslayers. The lead ship wasn't touched for the most part but Star Shadows began circling it like sharks, every once in a while they would slowly fade into cloak before suddenly appearing again, as if to make sure the enemy understood they weren't going anywhere. The cleanup was going tot be a little messy, several frigates had taken position around the lead ship and were awaiting order to launch boarding craft. The order never came, however, the Kewen would handle that part. Meanwhile, reports were being sent back to Greywatch Prime to update the council on the situation.

ooc: WHAT GREYWATCH SAID!
IC:

One of the Bording parties who was shot at, immedtialy broke hase running at full pelt after these aliens, firing a few return shots after them they yelled
"Ssssstop or Die".

OOC: Kewen, last I checked the POWs were in my hanger, you never stated capturing anyone. Wait... I know there are some people on my ship, are they on yours as well? I know Aseria is on my ship.

oooc:ohshit, i mistook them talking about drones for my guys my bad >.> <.< *waits for anslovak to say i captured some of your men* i did say about three times i am tractoring in your ships ya know.