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"I have no feelings to hurt but I'm confused. I'm looking at the situation from a logical standpoint. We are hiveminded, and if the situation goes south and the ship were destroyed, the Drone would be regerated in a Drone hive with all thoughts and memories intact."

"Regenerated? How? The Klikiss aren't individual, and so are viewed as expendable in their own society. The only ones capable of indopendant thought are the Breedex's, the queens. Essentially each hive is an individual."

"As I said, the Drone Hives. That is how we are created and when destroyed, a clone of the Drone is recreated there. Complete with all the aspects of the previous Drone, the only difference is that the Drones that go through this lose some of their cryptic abilities. We Drones were also created to be the elite of expendable soldiers."

"Ahh i see." Palleon frowned,

"You were designed to be expendable? Does that not trouble you? Or are you functionally incapable of forming such thoughts at the idea of your... expendability?"

"I am completely aware of my purpose and accept it, actually. It just doesn't realy bother any of us Drones. It's why we never argue or rebel even when situations get very grim. We always move forward as best we can. We Drones even form emotions and feelings over time but this still does not get in the way of our purpose."

Palleon struggled with that explanation and felt a tiny barely noticable pang in the back of his mind. Many races beleived in something else, an evolutionary by product of seeing their friends and family die when they were only primitives and gazing up into the sky and wondering, "is there something else to this dreary existence?", But not the Ciscilians, their primitves history stretching back thousands of years consisted of extreme efforts at survival, there was no time to sit back and ponder the meaning of existence, not when your planet's ecosystem was gradually turning into a freezer. If someone died you buried them and got back to trying to exist. Many races managed to develop basic technology within an average of three thousand years after gaining true sentience. The Ciscilians had taken nearly ten thousand to realize the value of things like the wheel. Not through lack of intelligence, but simply through a lack of time for innovate thought and pondering.

It was because of this that whenever the Ciscilians were confronted with the questions their existence they did what Palleon did, they banished the thought aside ad tried to focus on something to do.

"Well, if that is how you get along with life..." he trailed off, and started mentally running through some data about his fleet to get his mind of the more irritating things in life.

(OOC: EDIT/INFORMATIVE POINT

I will be absent for the follwing 7 days after tommorrow. Going on holiday, please continue and i will catch up as i can when i return. Just pretend Palleon is snowed under with paper work or something...)

Elesto smiled at the Admiral.

"Yes Admiral, you may have a representative on the actual fighter with the rest of your delegation on the gunship. He or she will be the gunner, and deal with operating the Pulse Laser Cannon that'll reveal itself if the fighter's stealth mission is compromised."

Elesto then turned to Palleon and the drone.

"As for you two, no telepathic or hive mind communication is allowed from the fighter to the gunship or anywhere else. If you want a representative on the fighter that's fine, but I expect their minds to work only inside their own heads...or wherever their minds are centred.

However, based on the Greywatchian's lack of help back during the space battle, I'm still a little suspicious of your nation's intentions. While Palleon's forces were originally hostile, they were key to repelling the invaders later on, and it appeared to be a lower caste that initiated the hostilities anyway. So unless you wish to convince me otherwise, one of Palleon's men will be analysing the data we receive on the fighter."

Palleon nodded,

"I am slightly uneasy about the lack of communication but it's your ship and therefore we follow your terms. However, the Klikiss cannot "turn off" their hive minded nature, only the Breedex is capable of independant thought, each hive is therefore an individual. So unless you allow us, i will not be able to send a Klikiss with you; since it would break your terms. A shame, given their aptitude with mathmatics, if you do decide it is unacceptable i will simply send a Ciscilian."

He shook his shoulders,

"I could have simply lied and said that the Klikiss could switch themselves off but that would have been a breach of your trust."

"I'm afraid the same goes for the Drones. We can't 'turn it off,' we're just built like that. It's a tactical advantage in combat. If a group is ambushed and killed and a Drone is with them, we know exactly what's happened. Mind you Greywatch took its time in deciding what to do because we actually arrived late, with a scout ship." The Drone at this point would've rolled its eyes but that was meaningless due to its eyes being a solid black. "Now then, as you've probably heard me say, we have ships capable of of assaulting planets... why would I be here if we intended to backstab you? If fact, why would I be giving you all this knowledge about Greywatch? Now then, if you're really that paranoid about Greywatch's intentions I'll find someone else. We have six races in Greywatch as well as droids who could perform the task. My only question is what do you fear about hive-mindedness? And why do you fear me? Is it that you don't want us telling everyone about how your ships work? With Drones, you've got fifty creatures with memories of the inside of your ship. I imagine with the Klikiss you'd have thousands." The Drone looked to Palleon, "No offense intended mind you."

Palleon grinned,

"Several billion actually. Technically, what one Klikiss knows only the others in it's hive knows. But since they joined the Ciscilian Empire, and we need them to work together, they have a vast termite city entirely devoted to relaying information to each of the Breedex Hive Queens. A great gathering of Klikiss from every hive swapping information."

Palleon's grin widened,

"The Klikiss are now the most well informed race as a whole. But your talk of droids have given me an idea, if it is ok with Elesto i'd like to send a Klikiss droid, it is essentially the same as a real Klikiss except being an individual and possessing extra equiptment to aid in repairs, it could be handy in that respect. But it won't have any form of telepathic communication, seeing as that's what troubling you."

The Drone looked away for a moment before looking at Palleon, "Yes, that is fine with my council. Greywatch will not be sending any representatives. Instead, we shall be preparing our forces for war." The Drone then focused on what Palleon had said about the Klikiss, "Impressive. There aren't nearly that many Drones but, well, there doesn't really need to be... I'll look forward to showing you all our 'intentions' when we battle against this enemy."

"Excellent." The Admiral replied, grinning. "Whenever your ships are ready to leave, captain."

[Im waiting for the invasion.. because unless you slip up with a stealth craft I can't do anything]

*OOC: It's up to outer heaven then. I found a computer, but can only watch really.)

[ bump... where is everyone ...]

OOC: I'm not really in a position to do anything... waiting for OH

(Me too. Where could he be?)

OOC: I'm very tempted to have that scout ship of mine go rogue or something...

OOC: Whoa guys, chill your beans, it's barely been five days. I'm working on a post and will get it up tomorrow, it's been a bit hectic my end with internal exams and whatnot.

OOC: Yeah, five days is actually awhile compared to most other RPs. And where are you? I was finished with exams awhile ago...

OOC: Yeah, five days is actually awhile compared to most other RPs. And where are you? I was finished with exams awhile ago...

Really? Do you have childern? Do you have school schedule to keep up? Do you have RL? I would say 5 days is nothing, well when you have all those above it is nothing....sorry i have been reading along to keep up, and this suprised me. Eh. Then again it is up to the OP poster to decide this.

Really? Do you have childern? Do you have school schedule to keep up? Do you have RL? I would say 5 days is nothing, well when you have all those above it is nothing....sorry i have been reading along to keep up, and this suprised me. Eh. Then again it is up to the OP poster to decide this.

OOC: Yes. No. Not at the moment seeing as it's summer, but I do have a job. Duh. Five days is still plenty (review what I said carefully) "compared to other RPs," lemme say again: Compared. I'm fine with waiting, hence my question: "And where are you?" Cause I don't know of any schools/colleges that are still giving exams, at least not in the USA, where I happen to live.

OOC: First off they're internal exams, which means sitting tests that contribute to my final grade. Secondly, there are schools outside the USA believe it or not. It might also shock you to know that my final exams are in October/November (As school here starts March as it's the end of summer) and that I work about 10/20 hours every week on top of my school stuff. I'm trying my best to stick with the RP and post, but sometimes I can't reach the computer or have the energy to write anything worthy of being here. Just please exercise a little patience when I'm away. If worst comes to worst reach me via MSN or email, they're both available on my profile.

IC:Elesto smiled at the assembled group and nodded.

"I'm glad we've got that settled, and the droid is more than acceptable Palleon."

Turning to the Drone, Elesto nodded once again.

"Don't take our suspicions of you or hive-mindedness the wrong way, we've just had bad experiences with such things is all. Once you've proven yourselves we'll treat you as if you were one of our own, we just need time and an example to build off.

As for ships, I should be able to get the Fighter and Gunship in under two days. I'll need the representatives to attend a briefing and a quick course on how to man the fighter effectively, after that we'll head for what should be Aquahelpian space and get the information we need. I suggest you all go to your ships, chambers or wherever you go to think...and think. It will be a tough battle ahead, and this mission may not yield the best results. Think positive, and think of anything that may help us in the upcoming battle."

Standing, Elesto bowed, and glanced at Tetras.

"The sooner we get to the ship, the sooner we can get things under way. If you have anything left to say I suggest you hurry."

Tetras nodded, and stood as he watched Elesto leave.

"I can't offer anymore, all I can say is that the upcoming mission will be tense or tough. But as the pilot of the Recon fighter, I promise you this: I will get your people back safely. I wish you all the best, and hope to see you all again soon."

Popping off a quick salute, Tetras exited the room and once the doors shut began to jog, catching up to Elesto within a few moments. They walked to the Shuttle together in silence, a heated conversation being exchanged between themselves. Once onboard they began to revert to their true forms, and as the shuttle shot towards the sky Tetras shook his head.

I hope you know what you're doing sir, because I don't. Are you even sure we'll get the necessary forces in time?

Elesto inclined his head.

I know a few people that owe me favours. Trust in Liquidus Tetras, and purge your negative thoughts, for they will only bring you down.

Sighing, Tetras slumped a bit in his chair. Watching the atmosphere part before them, he watched as they sped towards greater space and towards the Borealis, and wondered what he was going into. The ship they were going to be using, while a decent Stealth Fighter, was a war relic, over seventy years outdated, and only put on duties where the newer Fighter models weren't affordable or available.

Then again, we can't reveal everything to our new allies. Not now, possibly not ever. I just hope they can live with that...

OOC: First off they're internal exams, which means sitting tests that contribute to my final grade. Secondly, there are schools outside the USA believe it or not. It might also shock you to know that my final exams are in October/November (As school here starts March as it's the end of summer) and that I work about 10/20 hours every week on top of my school stuff. I'm trying my best to stick with the RP and post, but sometimes I can't reach the computer or have the energy to write anything worthy of being here. Just please exercise a little patience when I'm away. If worst comes to worst reach me via MSN or email, they're both available on my profile.

OOC: Pssh, again, I have patience, hence my ASKING. I've lived overseas for seven years and I had friends in local schools (British system I think...) so they also had diff scheduals. Hence why I was interested, though if you're too uptight to see I'm not holding anything against you, fine then.

The Drone nodded, "I see, no worries friend, many people think of hiveminds as... suspicious. Perhaps it is that many like to have a sense of privacy, I know being like myself take away that sense." The Drone waited for a moment, I do hope Greywatch is prepared to actually try and help these people... we have nothing to really gain... except a few more allies. But we have much to lose. "Well then, things will get underway... I need to see exactly what Greywatch is about to offer... so if we're done here..."

Palleon nodded, "I am glad this has been settled, i shall return to my ship and fle the nessacery reports. I shall find a Klikiss Drone for the reconnasiance mission and await the report on what we find; then i can request the appropriate forces."

Palleon and Drake stood and the Dalek glided back from the table, Palleon and Drake placed the chair back against the table from where they had removed it from the Dalek,

"I assume we will gather again at a later time." He nodded to the people gathered and the three of them left the conferance room. They said nothing to each other as they climbed back into the dropship, but several issues weighed heavily on his mind. The situation was... interesting. The Ciscilian Empire was in the first scenario where they could establish relations with other races which had not been incorporated into the Empire. Alongside this was the dilema which the Greywatch representative had posed regarding protocol. When they arrived back on Palleons flagship he dismissed the Dalek and had Drake return to his own vessel, he however returned to his quarters and braced himself for the forms which he had to fill.

"Alright then." Admiral Hawkespur stated. "It seems that everything is finally coming together. Our team will be waiting for the time to board."

With those final words from the admiral the Drone took its leave and returned to its craft. As soon as it boarded the craft was off an d within a few minutes the Greywatch ships were preparing to return to Greywatch. The area was alreayd marked, now it was only a matter of gathering some forces for the upcoming assault.

[bump this is my last week until sept]

(OOC: It's up to Angenteria to say all systems go i'm afraid)

OOC: Are we skipping the whole recon part and jumping into the battle then?

OOC: it would be better but either way it would be cut off, like I said as a stealth recon I can't do anything and it would seem like a waste of time

OOC: Agreed, I suppose you can just tell us what we'd find and we can jump in.

OOC: This is what you will expect:
http://forums.jolt.co.uk/showpost.php?p=13846183&postcount=103
there is almost no limit to the number of ships you can bring.... so feel free to bring your entire fleet if you see fit... just no world killing weapons like a star destroyer or masses of multi-km ships

OOC: Jus to let you know, I do have the 30-45Km Worldslayers. But like I said, I'm only going to be deploying 1 or 2 of them since it would be too expensive (yes I try to take payment for soldiers into account) to send more than that. Nor do I have a lot of these things sitting around, they're used mainly for extreme situations... like assualting another person's home-system. *wink wink*
Also,to clarify, the name is just a name. It doesn't sport any weapons capable of destroying worlds. And its designed to mainly take on enemy capital ships, if nessisary. This means the only time they'll play a big part is using long range scans, giving support, and assaulting worlds. In the latter, they land (or float) and drop soldiers in to handle the other stuff.

((That's fine, I mostly have small ships, technically I believe I made my navy around .5% of my population... small by what it could possibly be like I said 1,000,000,000,000 people = big army/ navy [though the army really is scattered across the system] ))

(OOC: Along with the fleet i have now i'm going to be sending an additional fleet of the same type and Klikiss Hive ship for "support". That's all i think.

P.S. Can we use nukes? The Ciscilians don't but the Klikiss love a bit of brute force :p )

OOC: Sure why not, we been using them before, [I just have more point defense then anyone else owing to a lack of shielding and a larger dependance on armor... it ends up being around the same protection against shielding, but the direct contact with the ship means that kinetic energy is imparted and there is greater damage then there would be with a shield.

if you use them on a colony though.... might end up being a greater call to arms because of supposed attempt at genoside [hint hint... I might do that to myself if things become to obad]

OOC: So you're going to trick your own people are you? I'll keep my eyes out.

Just so that you know the magnetic guidance systems used on the ships i'm sending are a lot powerful than the ones you encountered on my puny little frigate ship. Although i'm assuming that your large ship's have more powerful magnetic force fields.

P.S. The Klikiss don't use plasma weaponry, they use massive MAC cannons lol; yay kinetic energy!)

OOC: Because Greywatch is mixed betwen diff races, I use a lot of stuff. From Railguns to lasers to gauss to ion cannons to nukes. And my ground forces... don't even get me started on how weird that can be.

OOC: it shouldn't matter, the field strength decreases in an exponential progression from the point of origin. Since this happens, unless you are right next to my ship the field will be over powered. While you will cause some fluctuation locally in the magnetic field, multiple layers and the fact that the origin point is much closer then your weapon means that the capture of your plasma will be preceeded by a localised aruora. However, like I said, if you happen to be shooting from close range then you will overpower the field in its entirety Most NS ships do project a magnetic field, in most cases it is usually over powered by a plasma weapon. Consider my denfese a varient shield. It does not attempt to repell the plasma, but absorb it and perhaps use it to provide extra power via thermocuples. While most SF shields are more effective since they disperse both energy and matter, a magnetic field is best suited against Plasma weapons sicne the containment of the enemy weapon will decrease exponentially.

OOC: Yeah, but most of my ships aren't really using plasma. Unless they're Kiixori ships that is.

(OOC: Can we just pretend I gave the go-ahead? I'm kinda busy now. I'm sure it'll get good quickly once the shooting starts again.)

OOC: We need the others.

OOC: like I said its pathetically useless against everything else. It will partially absorb the power of lasers and help to disperse the attack over a larger area but its useless against large projectiles [small one will be attracted to the field, though if it moves fast enough it can also go through] It will deaden the power of close explosions [there is a blast wave in space though its pathetic compared to explosions here on earth meaning close, as in almost touching]. Other than that it is useless which is why my ships have abnormally high amounts of point defence. These range from metal storm units which will basically send a wall of metal at a location to missiles [which will attempt to intercept MAC rounds and defelct their path... they are dumb projectiles fter all] to CWIS systems [rail guns] which can double as seconary weapons at closer rangers and lasers [similar to CWIS, effective at longer ranges though there is a slightly higher possibility of missing depending on the speed of a projectile or fighter] All in all the active and passive defense including metres of armor and structural renforcement is about the same as a shield, though it is more ablative in nature and will not last as long under fire.

Technically can't y'all send ships to my system

OOC: So we're skipping the recon then? If so, what point do we go from?

OOC: I THINK we're just going to skip straight to the battle. But don't ask me, I'm not sure what's going on anymore.

OOC: Oh for Frazzle's sakes... right. Let's skip a chpater and get this thread moving again!!!

IC:

Palleons request for reinforcements had been fullfilled, two fleets, including his own, had been put under his command for the upcoming battle. This combined fleet was composed of 6 Assault Carriers, each 3 miles in length, 16 Destroyers, each 1 1/2 miles in length and 38 CCS Battle Cruisers just over 1 mile in length. Also a support of 17 Dalek saucers, each ranging in diameter from 1/2 mile to 2 miles, had been sent.

But the one ship which Palleon was most grateful for however was the Klikiss Hive ship, a whopping 7 miles in length, which was positioned in front of the rest of the fleet. It was however smaller then the Greywatch Worldslayers, drastically smaller. The Klikiss in the Hive ship had been working hard for an hour making the nessacery calculations and fine tuning their slipspace-gravitational generators; but finally, they were ready.

Palleon switched on his communications relay and addressed it to all ships in system,

"Attention. This is Vice-Admiral Palleon hailing all other vessels of all other fleets, is your status ready for transit to our pre-destined destination? Do you confirm such readiness? Thnak you."

OOC: USU, You're hive ship... is small (compared to some of your other ships). Kilometers are smaller than miles 3 km = roughly 1.86 miles. It's smaller than your Assault Carriers.
IC:

Once the Council Had some sufficient time to decide what to do, they sent Greywatch forces in to assist. Two Worldslayers were sent in, one was a plantery assault class and the other a fleet destroyer class. Both were wielding enough firepower to tear a hole through any deffenses. Both had ion cannons in their possession, though if they were lucky such things would not have to be used. The planetary assault class was easily 38Km in length while the fleet destroyer was around 40Km. Both waited patiently for the rest of the Greywatch force to arrive. A response was sent:

<We have other ships coming, please be patient. We'll be ready to go in a few minutes.>

OOC: Ahhhhh fuck..... i've screwed up my maths again lol. Bugger it all.... fook fook fook...... sorry. I'm rubbish at maths.... although what i've done is beyond unbelievable.... i shall change the Klikiss Hive ships size.

Thanks a bundle Greywatch.

OOC: No problem, just google "kilometers to miles" or something along those lines to find a conversion table.

OOC: just go from your ships entering the system, I assume its a unified attack from different fronts just so that I can focus hudreds of small ships on one fleet

OOC: I was treating this as a breach on a single point and then braking off from there. Note the ships below are not yet in your system.
IC:

A few moments later, several Greywatch frigates and cruisars began exitting PSR int the system. All of them began to group around the Worldslayers. In total there were about fifty ships. More were coming but it would take awhile, Greywatch was playing support and didn't have too much of a reason to get involved in this. For now, this would have to be enough, as soon as they were clear, they'd go in with the others and begin the assault.

*Gets excited* :wink:

pi still can't do anything...]

Imperial Battleship
Emperor's Light

(OOC: Tell me of my ship and troop numbers are too much or too little.)

Admiral Hawkespur sat at his command throne aboard his battleship. He had just returned from the planet's surface, bidding his farewell to Governor Sturm, who wished him good luck in return. He had sent out orders for additional ships, plus a few regiments of Imperial Guard. However, while his rank of Fleet Admiral gave him much authority, how far it would be obeyed was another question.

"Admiral, our reinforcements are coming through."

"Ahh, good."

Warp holes opened up in what was once empty space, and ships Angenterian Imperial Navy came through.

The fleet that arrived consisted of the following, adding their power to the Imperial ships already there:

3 Heavy Battleships
4 Assault Carriers
6 Destroyers (Same class as the Pax)
10 Frigates
15 Cruisers.

Along with those ships, came 5 Troopships, massive hulks means to house Angenterian Imperial Guardsmen and women, along with their equipment and vehicles. Each ship carried 2 regiments of soldiers, each regiment consisting of 500,000 soldiers each (OOC: tell me if that's too much or too little. I'm assuming we're going to be invading a main planet, along with any installations that we would need to take manually, like a moonbase.)

"Sir, we're receiving a transmission from the Gropos." Gropos was naval jargon, short for Groundpounders.

"Patch it through."

The screen flickered a moment, before changing to the image of a man in a heavily decorated uniform. To his side stood a relatively young woman, wearing a black and crimson uniform.

"This is General Eisen of the Imperial Guard, responding to you call, Fleet Admiral."

"General, thank you for responding so quickly. As you're probably aware, however, the invasion of an alien's home system will be no easy task."

"We're up to it, Admiral." The woman stepped forward.

"This, Admiral, is Commissar Lillian Hauptmann, in charge of discipline among the troops."

"I can't take all the credit, Admiral." She replied "My associate commissars among the lower ranks do the dirty work." This, unlike most Imperial Commissars around, wasn't as bad as she made it sound. Hauptmann made an impression that she really cared about the soldiers under her (even if she really didn't.) She rarely called for harsh punishments, besides the occasional flogging or, for the most extreme cases, firing squad. This worked well for her, as it made sure that the soldiers would watch her back when the shooting starts, and always had something good to say about her, if only that she was pretty (which was the least profane word the soldiers used to describe her looks, getting generally worse from that point.)

"I see. Pleasure to make your acquaintances. Now I must tend to the aliens. We'll speak later."

"Very well." The transmission faded.

"Send a message to the alien fleets."

"Yes, sir."

Technically, as the system invaded was Angenterian, it meant that the Admiral was in charge of the operation, but it didn't seem that way just by looking. The size of the Greywatch Worldslayers easily dwarfed any other ship there.

Attention all ships, this is Fleet Admiral Hawkespur. We're prepared to move out. Report status.

<This is Greywatch Worldslayer Flameseeker, we are just getting the final preparations finished up and we're ready to follow your commands.>

<Greywatch Worldslayer Divine Resolve, we are getting ships into position for mass PSR travel. As soon as that's done, we move with you.>

OOC: I have several thousand ships of various sizes in the system, I have over 1 trillion in the system I have around 500,000,000 total in the military you might want to be over excessive... though I guess your fleet is enough to take on a large number of my [mostly] small ship effectively [oh they all wont be storming you at one time, its a layered defense so each part is a different jursidiction of fleet command, think of it as "levels" in a video game

I put in the link what I have, four planets [three terra fromed] and several hundred colonies each with several million people

OOC: Well part of what I do is attack planets to cut off possible supplies of resources, brake moral, avoid getting sandwiched by forces I may have looked over, steal tech and the sort. That's all good right?

OOC: With the colonies at the "lagrange" points, are they basically jsut space stations?

IC:

Palleon received the Angenterians message:

"Attention all ships, this is Fleet Admiral Hawkespur. We're prepared to move out. Report status."

And quickly sent a response:

"This is Vice-Admiral Palleon commanding the Ciscilian Empire's Fleet. We are ready to make an instantaneous mass transit shift upon your go ahead. If i might make a suggesstion on our battle plan? Based on the recon scans i would consider it a wise course of action that once we have engaged and defeated the main enemy fleet my fleet should split from the main attack force. My Dalek's are well suited to zero gee combat which may be a major factor if we are to secure their terrestial and space based colonies. The Klikiss Hive Ship will accompany the main attack on their home world but if you consider it wise i would move off to secure their space based bases."

OOC: it all depends on what form of FTL you use... if you can jump inside a star system then yes, I guess it is possible. Unfortunately, as almost entirely city planets all you are doing is attacking serivices, and a fraction of the system's at that. The decentralized nature of the colony system means that its impossible to take industry or population out with one strike. Morale wise it might work, but considering the nature of my people that can also backfire on you with your attack being labled as "a cowardly attempt at genoside" or something like like. The planets also give almost no resources, since they are city-planets they just use them up. you would need to do a long interdiction campagn against the mostly self sufficient colonies to starve out a planet. [though sucessfuly attacking and capuring a planet, not just hit and run] will seriously degrade morale. Most likely though the government will not surrender eventually causing anarchy to break out and my people will surrender though the military will try to fight]

In general I would say that a multi-front frontal attack would work best but I guess its up to y'all to decide how to use what technology and forces you have effectively.

no they are large numbers of o-neil type structures. "space stations" in the loose sense but also containing a self-sufficient economy [food wise at least, metal and such is imported] These structures are multi-kilometer and so will not be easily destroyed [though technically it does not have to be entirely destroyed to be rendered inhabitable... just a lack of atmosphere and thus a large enough hole that auto-repair systems cannot patch it in time to prevent a loss of most of the air... but with such a lrge structure multiple holes are more likely then one big hole.] They have a population of around 10,000,000 each so each has a small self defense force and each is basically mostly self-governing. They are mostly unarmed though. A few minor weapons on the surface, but unless they are dedicated to military you wont really have a problem with them.

OOC: I already have my plan of attack set up.

Hawkespur looked over at the readiness of the aliens' vessels.

He sent a message to the Greywatch:

Acknowledged, report back when fully prepared.

Analyzing the attack plan made by the Ciscilians, the Admiral deemed it feasible, and sent a prompt reply.

Vice-Admiral Palleon,
Your strategy is quite interesting. You are free, of course, to do as you will. We will determine the proper course of action of your hive ship depending on the circumstances of the enemy, and our own fleets.

[I think the last day I can post is sat. if this dies before I come back ill be bumping it up/ giving a telle if needed, so I think the most you can do before then is coordinate where your troops will end up/ ther jumping in anything else I guess we can do but it will be cut off in the middle]

(OOC: If Greywatch says he's ready we can go... oh wait... we have to wait for outer heaven right?

OOC: Yup

[bump.... I'm guessing this thread died....]

OOC: I thought you were gone for awhile and we were picking up when you got back.

[oh... anyway i'm back if anyone wants to start again from where we left off]

OOC: prolly gonna need to go TG a few people and get this thing up and running again.

OOC: Oh, wow, we're back. Good to see everyone. Anyway. I'm going to pretend OH said yes and give a go-ahead.

IC: Admiral Hawkespur took one last look at the position of the fleets. As the system attacked was Angenterian, he was the de facto leader of the entire invasion force in space. He was confident they would be able to face off anything that came their way. He had appointed Captain Lex his second-in-command, who would be commanding from the Pax Imperialis. Having faced these aliens before, he would know the most about their weaponry, which was less then stellar, from what he had said. He pressed a button on his command throne, putting him in touch with the rest of the fleet.

This is Admiral Hawkespur. All ships, move out!

He turned to his bridge crew.

"Begin the warp-phase rituals. Power up the engines."

"Yes, sir."

Getting ready jump. PSR systems are up and ready. Waiting for your command.

The Greywatch ships all got into position and readied themselves for the jump into the enemy system.

"This is Admiral Hawkespur. All ships, move out!"

The Ciscilian ships charged up their slipspace capacitors, they could have used the Klikiss ship's instantaneous quantum level translocation device but didn't want to arrive their first, so they'd go via conventional means.

"This is Vice-Admiral Palleon of the Ciscilian Fleet, awaiting the order to jump."

"Admiral, all ships report ready to go."

"Alright." Hawkespur said. "All ships, advance!"

With that, the entire Angenterian fleet ascended into warp-space, save for the troopships, which would be called in after the space front had been secured.

WIth that the Greywatch ships initiated PSR and were off. Unlike the others, the Greywatch ships positioned themselves away from the main group so as not to cause any damage due to the powerful gravitational disturbances produced by PSR travel.

[while I have some FTL sensors now none are long ranged therefore, I wont know you are here till you enter the system.... but we are waiting for someone aren't we]

(Outer Heaven)

[bump again?]

OOC: I'm thinking we should go ahead with Outer Heaven...

OOC: Perhaps. It's up to Aqua isn't it

OOC: It's your call, Aqua.

OOC: Um, sure go ahead, Oh hasn't reasponded to TG so I think we can assume its safe to continue without [he can always jump back in if he wants to]

OOC: okay then

OOC: Shall i start us of or will someone else do the honour?

WIth that the Greywatch ships initiated PSR and were off. Unlike the others, the Greywatch ships positioned themselves away from the main group so as not to cause any damage due to the powerful gravitational disturbances produced by PSR travel.

OOC: So here I was...

(OOC: So, we're finally doing something? Oh, and OH MY GRAWD, NATIONSTATES 2!)

IC: "Navigational Cogitators confirming location, Admiral." A bridge officer reported. "The Navigators are preparing to take us out of warp-space."

"Very good, lieutenant." Admiral Hawkespur reported. They were nearing the reported location of the Aquahelper Empire, and were finally preparing to fight the final battle. Whatever was to happen next, things were going to heat up.

"Exiting warp-space now, Admiral."

"Void-Shieds are at maxium, weapons....online. Gunnery Crews report ready."

"May the Emperor be with us."

With that, the Angenterian Fleet dropped out of warp-space, at the Aquahelper system.

OOC: Oh for Petes sake... i'll do it lol Just so Angenteria and Greywatch know, this is 2 years behind our other threads so i'm still hte Ciscilian Empire in this. A certain Drones opinions have yet to have repercussions lol

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Palleons fleet entered the system, his fleet consisted of six Assault Carriers, each 3 miles in length, 16 Destroyers, each 1 1/2 miles in length and 38 CCS Battle Cruisers just over 1 mile in length. Also a support of 17 Dalek saucers, each ranging in diameter from 1/2 mile to 2 miles, had been sent to aid him, most importantly however was the Klikiss Hive ship, 14 kilometers in length along with two Swarm Ships. The swarm ships were composed of hundreds of small cuboid vessels piloted by small groups of Klikiss, the vessel could rearrange itself for varying tasks, Palleon thought it was most befitting of the Klikiss's nature.


The assortment of vessels had arrived in the system, Palleon would have ordered a full system scan but it wasn't nessacery, it was painfully obvious that this system was heavily developed. This race must have been trapped here for centuries without FTL technology, Palleon arranged his vessels in a clustered formation behind the Hive ship, which turned to present it's side to the system.

He was grateful they were on the edge of the system, he wondered if sending these aliens a message would be worth it but he had protocal to follow:

"Attention all aliens withen the system. We have pursued you for attacking another race which had no aggressive intentions. As such, you have violated legislation twenty seven and legislation thirteen, articles two, seven, thirteen fourteen and thirty six. Invoked paragraphs seven and twelve and have raised a number of concerns around notifications eighty seven and one hundredand ninety two."

Palleon sighed, he knew they wouldn't understand it but he had protocal to follow, he sent an additional message now that was out of the way:

"We have come to neutralise you as a possible hostility, surrender or be forcibly reduced to a manageble state to be submitted to the jurisdiction of the Ciscilian Empire."

His ships fired up their weapons and defensives, the Klikis Hive ship formulating an attack plan to deal with any possible hostiles.

A massive gravitational disturbance would ripple throughout the area as the Greywatch fleet arrived. The aliens could do whatever scans they wanted to, the Greywatch Worldslayers would be quite visible along with the rest of the fleet behind them. Aboard the bridge, the captain waited for systems to come back into check. The problem with such a huge ship going into PSR is that the amount of energy required was vast, vast enough that the rift would literally destroy anything that wasn't properly shielded. This also meant that Worldslayers had to travel in their own personal PSRs, with the rest of the fleet in a completely different rift altogether. This also meant that the Worldslayers' shields were currently at 300% and no weapons systems would be ready for another few minutes. Until then, the rest of the fleet would do the fighting.

[System Command Center]
It was another routine day. Everyone doubted anything would happen, and yet the chance was greater than zero that some hostile force would just show up. Commander Azarath stood on the balcony that overlooked the dark room in the center of the underground command complex. The dark room's main source of illumination was the large hologaphic, three dimensional system map. It showed an overview of the entire space around the system, as far as sensors were deployed. With the advent of FTL communications technology it was now feasible to have real time sensors from the far points of the system. The main cluster of sensors was located on the trajectory that the one and only interstellar exploration fleet had left on. This was the one area that was most likely to have return visitors and it was the area most patrolled. As he looked out an area blacked out on the map.
"Report" shouted the commander.

"Sensor J-32 is out, last received transmission indicate some sort of spatial anomaly. We are redirecting sensors now." said a random techie

Several more small pockets blacked out as the sensor systems converged on the previously blacked out areas. The commander let out a choice expletive as he saw what was now there that wasn't there several seconds ago. The computer automatically initiated Code IA-12 and redirected all ready drones to the area of incursion, such a large fleet had no chance of being friendly. There were 156 drones that could respond within a reasonable time limit and they moved with all haste as authorities got ready for a war.

The commander looked out over the hologram. The enemy would have a hard time of conquering this system, if they did at all. He laughed a little as he saw fleets getting ready for combat, and a mass shipment of hydrogen left the gas giants as if they fell no more fuel could be easily obtained. [well there are always oceans and the newer ships use anti-matter] His laughter abruptly ended as he thought of the woefully inadequate defences for the outer three planets. Luckily only the most inner one was close to the enemy fleets. The rest were in their orbits in various locations around the system, all connected to the main outer hum with jumpgates.

Three fleets would be diverted to the innermost outer planet, until then only the countless numbers of drones would fight.

Just then the speaker systems came up. It was an automatically routed message. "Attention all aliens withen the system. We have pursued you for attacking another race which had no aggressive intentions. As such, you have violated legislation twenty seven and legislation thirteen, articles two, seven, thirteen fourteen and thirty six. Invoked paragraphs seven and twelve and have raised a number of concerns around notifications eighty seven and one hundredand ninety two."

The commander laughed some more he turned to his office and shouted "Give no answer, they will get it soon enough."

[outer system, area of incursion]

Over 150 drones converged on the fleets that had emerged from nowhere. They blazed with white plasma as their fusion drives propelled them through space from their previously dormant state. The came closer and closer to the enemy fleet, and once within range, they used their box of missiles. The box of missiles was launched magnetically. The missles streamed off to the target, their fuel saved for later dodging point defence and achieving a greater impact velocity. There were over 15,000 missiles [targeted at smaller ships], and the 150 drones would turn into suicide-bombs. They were completely useless now and they had served their purpose as evidenced by the countless projectiles now heading toward the large enemy fleet.
[I do assume you know they are coming, but it would have been within 5 minutes of your arrival]

[outer formation belt]
A large pirate fleet was assembling. It would take the better part of a day to achieve full strength from the devoted ships but it was assembling and it would attack these unknown ships who had penetrated their "turf"

[[OOC: Pirates in the system are more coordinated then is known to my government with a rudimentary jumpgate system for traveling around the outer extremities of the system and some distance into the system.]]

[bump, if its too much just tell me and Ill tone down the initial respons [i.e. to remove the pirates and lower the amount of responding drones]]

OOC: I'm just busy so I can't really respond all that much, I'll be sure to get on a response when I can.

ooc: Hi aquahelper, hrm, i cant remember if i was in this thread with you, because i seem to have a highlight in this.

OOC: well.... I don;t believe so but I do believe it is still open, and with the amount of opposition being faced if you are interested you can join.

OOC: I am in a rather haphazard position to at the moment. I intend to kick start off once more this saturday so that you know.

ooc: i might join, if someone can gimme a sitrep of whats going on.. i was never good and backtracking through threads.

Umm... well considering you won't know what has happened before [I invaded a system and was repulsed basically] The current situation is that I am under attack in my one and only system [which has a population of over a trillion people] It hasn't actually "started" just the meeting engagement. Its technology against numbers basically....

"Admiral, multiple enemy contacts closing! They're on a collision course!" A bridge officer said. the bridge was now ripe with activity. Bridge officers moved back and fourth, reporting the readiness of all aspects of ship and crew, from the gunnery crews to the infirmary to the lowliest deck hand. They had come prepared, and was ready to unleash hell on whoever had attacked them unprovoked.

Admiral Hawkespur stood from his command throne, and folded his arms. He looked out from the viewscreen, noticing small blips, that were quickly increasing in size, closing towards their position.

So it begins...

"Fighters." He said simply.

The bays of the Imperial carrier ships opened up, and fighters off all classes, from quick, darting interceptors to lumbering heavy corvettes, swarmed out from the hangar bays, fully armed and readied. In all, the first wave numbered a little under 200 strike craft, with two more waves of craft waiting to be launched. Imperial Carrier ships were known for carrying immense amounts of strike craft, sacrificing extra weapons systems and thicker armor for massive hangar bays and pilot quarters. They would have to be protected at all costs, if the Imperial Fleet was to be supported with a constant wave of fighters.

"Fire!" Hawkespur added "We can't let those bombs hit us!"

With that, the guns of the Imperial Fleet opened up, with the support of the strike craft.

[[Im waiting for the other two to post a reply before I reply to the above]]

The Drones didn't phase anyone in the Greywatch fleet and the ships simply began firing on the swarm that approached. Many of the Drones were actually being taken down before they got in range due to the work of 'sniper turrets' possessed by some of the Greywatch ships. Star Shadow, currently seated in the back of the fleet went into stealth mode and disappeared from sights and scans, they'd move in for a suprise attack later. With the size of the fleet being what it was, no one would notice, espescially when the Gambler frigates began doing what they do. They had a special scan scrambler that would make it appear like there were more ships that there really were. To anyone looking at scans, the Greywatch fleet would appear to triple in size almost immediately. It was a very useful, very successful tactic made to trick automated defenses as well as scare off other unwanteds. Hopefully it would work now. The Worldslayers were still unable to help at that moment, their shields powering down to normal levels so their weapons could shred anything and everything that got close.

The Ciscilian fleet was gathered behind the Hive Ship which had it's side facing the oncoming swarm of drones. The two trapezoid sections which normally served as hanger entrances, one on each side of the Hive Ship, shimmered, before clearing to show the opposite side of the ship's view; the Ciscilians fleet now had a thousand meter portal to shoot through.

Pin point lasers erupted from the vessels targeting the oncoming Drones, the Hive Ship's Swarm ships broke apart into smaller craft and spread out, firing their energy weapons at the drones but sticking close to the protecting Hive Ship which opened up worm holes to send the Drones back to where they had started and projected micro black holes to crush any drones which came too close.

The missiles and drones all came in. They were soon swatted down like flies. The drones had little armor and weaponry other than the missiles and soon all were out of commission or otherwise unable to fight. The missiles impacted the enemy fleet, but with the numbers taken out before they arrived there it was doubtful that they did any good.

[Pirate fleet]
Several bands of pirates dedicated their ships to the greater cause, the preservation of the people they pillaged, after all, if a technologically advanced race took over annihilation would be all but inevitable. There were 150 ships. The goal of the attack was not to destroy the enemy ship, but weaken them. The ships soon entered the ring-like jump gate.
[I leave it to you to detect their incomming and within the next few minutes, IC, to form some sort of plan

"Multiple contacts, sir." Said the tactical officer aboard one of the Worldslayers. The captain, a Xarniosi, didn't take her eyes off the screen, prepare the other ships for combat. As soon as we return to normal status, open fire on the enemy." The tactical officer nodded. The Greywatch ships began preparing for the battle that was to come, this enemy was sending some serious force, too bad it was going up against three different military mights at once. It didn't matter what number they sent, the combonation of races and forces here would make the enemy regret their decision.

OOC: sorry about my absence, are y'all still here because I want to continue?

OOC: If everyone else is in.

[well that's one...]

[so I guess it died and my fault too.....]

Did you ever try contacting the others?