NationStates Jolt Archive

Thirteen ships laid in wait in an un-occupied system along one of the TEC trade routs. Using inside information, they knew that a UTF shipment was due to come through the area, and they were waiting. A few minutes before the ship was scheduled to be passing through the single drone frigate engaged its FTLi fields. the four battleships and eight heavy cruisers going to alert status as they awaited the appearance of the UTF Trade ship. They began dispersing minovsky particles into the system, firing missiles that would streak away in varying directions before bursting, spreading the minovsky particles faster. The particles would act as chaff to most sensors, save gravitics, that were used in the area.

The convoy moved through space, the ships engines white hot in the back of them, the convy was escorted by multiple Jupiter class light cruisers a handful of frigates, and fifty fighter craft. Several non friendly missiles hit a few 17 km freighters, their forms rippled with fire as the missiles tore through their hull, explosion after explosion ripped through the convoy fleet.

The UFS Saturn a Jupiter class ship was at the head of the convoy, its form was silhouetted against the stars and they fiery orange explosions behind it. On the bridge Captain Richard west was on bored. The ship went to red alert right away, red klaxon’s started to blare. He looked over to the tactical officer who spoke to him softly in an urgent voice.

“Sir three freighters have been lost, all carrying civilian supplies, and colonist, our normal sensors are being jammed by strange particle radiation it seems to be some form of M particle. Grav sensors are not effected I can get a targeting solution on those ships ”

West growled a bit, he fisted his hands and started to bark out orders to both the Ops station and tactical station.

“Target that battle ship charge all phaser’s and arm missile tubes arm auto cannons, Ops is there any thing we know about that strange radiation.”

The advanced human like android turned from his station his chair hovering over floor, his hands where rested gently on his lap.

“Sir from the readings we have obtained, it is plausible that these particles are a form of exotic particle that we have not yet seen on a wide scale, but we have been able to ascertain the effect on sensors and communications they have, the pathfinder research complex recently experimented on particles exactly like this. I believe we can modify a missile’s anti matter inducer to produce the anti particle to this when they explode thus eliminate huge areas of the jammed area for our conventional sensors to work, as well as clear a path for communications.”

West smiled his eyes lit up as he nodded to the android who promptly went back to his chair sitting down and crossing a leg he looked at the tactical officer with a nod. The android was doing his work using remote bots to configure the missiles for launch .

Outside of the field a distress call was sent by several ships to star fleet command including multiple recordings of sensor readings and the attack.

The ships then broke formation as another few of the convoy ships exploded in a fiery death as a result of hits by the missiles, the Saturn her self flanked by two of her sisters, rushed towards the battle ship, the modified missiles being fired from the Saturn’s massive pod, the missiles screeched out their forms glowing with a slight yellow hue, their bodies glimmering against the darkness of space hundreds upon hundreds of missiles at a time started to fly from all the ships, fiery orange beams of phased particle fire lanced out slashing through space towards the main ship of the enemy flotilla.

West’s eyes went wide as he saw the red talons ships, sensors now operating at full capacity, he barked out orders.

“Send a comn signal to fleet command tell them we have been betrayed”


“Aye sir”

said the tactical officer quickly tapping on the console, the ships AI was now controlling via the tactical officers neural link the weapons fire phaser fire and pulse fire along with hundreds of missiles rushed from the ships many arrays and banks. Pulses beams and missiles screeched in to the darkness mass firing on specific parts of the battle ship, engines, weapon systems and general hull.

In all more than eight freighters where hit , destroyed or disabled and more where crippled the escort fleet now engaged the enemy, and starfleet now had the evidence in hand.

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The Four battleships adjusted their firing arcs, focusing their fire on the lead federation warship while the eight heavy cruisers opened up on the remaining freighters. The lot of the ships deploying more minovsky distribution warheads, as well as altering the polarization of the field slightly as data came in on the feddies new counter-tactic. The particle field shifting its magnetic signature just enough to render the anti-particles useless. The warships opened up with their linear siege cannons. The battleships having locked on to the lead federation warship, while the heavy cruisers fired on the freighters. As the phaser streams entered the minovsky field, they seemed to warp erraticly, curving off-target. similarly, missiles entering the field would veer around, unable to maintain target lock inside the field. A few beams grazed the hulls of the ships, causing minor scarring a few turrets in the midhip cluster of one of the battleships taking a nasty hit as the phaser ebam actually curved over the front of the ship and down into two of the turrets, the thick armor of the newly upgraded battleships combined with the diffusion effect of the field making long range combat mostly useless in the area.

The ships deployed decoy drones and began to strafe, moving up through space while the new decoys scattered about the area, spreading out. The warships fired another volley of missiels, this time they were chronios class anti-capital ship missiles. that would detonate harmlessly in the minovsky field a few seconds after being fired. Their warheads sending out gravity pulses that would scatter gravitons into the area aswell, clouding gravitic sensors.

Space was flared open by massive metal forms, rough hulled massive behemoths of war came to a slight crawl over the battle several light seconds away. Behind them several smaller forms, the massive ship in the center had the markings on the side of its rough metal hull UFS Bellerophon CSCV- 400 Its utterly massive form dwarfed the escorts and the two smaller Peace keeper class ships. Its Sister ship the UFS Gilgamesh CSCV- 406 traveled with its own two peacekeeper class escorts. Behind this sortie of heavy hitters came along Galaxy class medium cruisers, yet more of the Jupiter class, several frigates, destroyers and hundreds of fighter craft deployed from the heavier ships.

The ships rumbled towards the pirate vessels slowly and steadily streams of white hot particles faded in to space behind them the fighters broke off and started erratic maneuver’s. Admiral Alexei Stukov was in command of the Bellerophon, he sat down on the hovering chair in the middle of the massive command center, various holo consoles blipping . Various consoles where Changing images of the local space, Klaxons rang out and echoed out through the bridge .

Alexei was infuriated at what was going on thousands of innocent people many expensive goods and various heavy equipment tugs gone or destroyed, his green eyes focused upon the last of the freighter’s as they exploded in a fury of orange flames.

He could hear the comn signals now, the screams of children and women and men innocent, the searing heat they must have felt, Alexei sank back in to his chair placing a gloved hand on to his chin.

He feared the worst now, his own brother an aquaculture engineer was on one of these ships. His face distorted with anger, rage filled every portion of his mind, his fist became clenched the echos of screams and agony filling the speakers of the ship. As the Bellerophon and her sister ship closed , his heart became dark his eyes focused in to the mundane darkness of space. He slammed both his fist down and started to bark out orders.

“Brings us closer to these ships point blank range if you have to, engage quantum sensors they want to try to play games and jam us lets see how far they get when we scan their very essence, dimensional sensors to full. Coordinate with the remaining escorts, all hands prepare for battle.”


These bastard’s will pay he thought his mind racing with various images of hostile forces being destroyed. He thought the soulless mindless killing machines mercenaries that whore themselves out to the highest bidder, what ever they where getting..... He would make sure it was marred with bitterness and death.

Full sub light was applied the particle streams became more intense, the hybrid ID drives pushing them forward at massive speeds, The warships forms glimmered in the light of enemy fire that raced passed them. Massive turrets whizzed and churred as they locked on to targets using the quantum sensors , Bellerophon the slayer of beast, one of the greatest hero's known to the old Greeks. His name was rising again the ship would do him justice Alexi thought out loud the crew would hear him.

Plates of armor moved as missile banks where exposed thousands of missile tubes space out equally where armed and ready, turrets and emitter banks and smaller guns all poised and ready the Bellerophon her self targeted two ships at a time, the lighter ships and hundreds of fighters started to bare down on the enemy group. FTLi was engaged as they moved in closer to the enemy, their drives where now jammed . The Federation battle group was out for blood.

Alexei smiled, and with a sadistic grin spoke out.

“Fire!”

These beast’s will pay he thought them utter abominations to nature right now, he laughed almost with insanity as energetic discharges echoed through the ship, and screeches of missiles reverberated to the bridge as well , thousands upon thousands of KKM’s and Polaris II anti matter missiles guided by quantum, and dimensional sensors locked on to enemy targets, engines, weapons and reactor emissions. Their forms filled the sky as the entire fleet lit up almost blighter than a star for, a very instant the darkness of space was lit aflame .

Beams and pulses and thousands of C frac and missile rounds slashed and moved through space both sides of the Bellerophon lit up like hell fire, as its massive turrets recoiled again and agai, and beams of purple violet energy slashed through space, orange pulses and beams following behind missiles and high yield rounds.

Fighters frigates and escort ships began to strafe and fire , beams and pulses and missiles flew out of the smaller ships the Orion frigates crisscrossed with other escorts at high speed shooting off its spinal auto cannons as they strafed. Missiles strafed and guided at erratic patterns. RRR Rounds from missile tubes and shells light up the darkness even more, dedicated ECM and ECCM In conduction with Radiation Release Rounds would impede enemy tracking as the light and bath of radiation would confuse every thing from visual to most other forms of sensors. The Bellerophon herself was now at full fury, rounds energy beams and missiles rushed out from almost every part of the ship. Like the beast slayer it was named after it seemed to fill the sky with light and glory, the cornucopia of colors unleashed by the federation fleet was as deadly as the fury of god himself.


These piles of pestilent filth he thought , had no escape, FTLied, and a federation fleet now baring down full might upon them. Alexei smiled , his face damped with sweat and tears, his emotions raging still, he relished in the fact that he was here personally, to exact vengeance upon these fools for their attack. The Bellerophon’s auto cannons came in three verities along with its various energy and missile weapons. 7inch 32 inch and 60 inch cannons, all firing up to 500,000 RPM. Solid slugs, conversion slugs, metal storm slugs all rushed out slashing a trail of fire towards the enemy ships.
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The very instant the last freighter went up, the FTLi field dropped and the thirteen ships vanished in blinding blue-white flashes as their P-drives discharged. Gravitic and magnetic sensors would scream for a moment, then they were gone. half a second later the withering fire from the UTF's massive capital ships streaking through where a moment before had been the attack fleet. And just like that it was over, ending as suddenly as it had begun.

Meanwhile, aboard a pegasis class carrier, a rather dark skinned woman with flowing white hair sat somehow gracefully in the command chair. black shadows seemed to flick about her, as if the lights of the bridge were flickering candles. Thirteen ships popped into existance a few kilometers away. The image of a reptilian appearing on the bridges main screen. "Mission was a success admiral, 18 freighters sunk, as well as various escorts and fighter-craft."

The female nodded. "I am pleased, when this is over you shall be rewarded for your loyalty." She waved her hand and the screen switched off. She idly twirled a lock of chalk white hair. "Where shall we strike next..." She said to herself, the holo display in the center of the room displaying various trade routs through the galaxy.


OOC: dun dun dun...

Added-

As the attack fleet moved away from where it had jumped, one of the battleships began to list heavily. the scoring from the phaser hit moving into the light. its engines flickered erratically as escape pods began to stream from the ship, others accelerating away a few moments before it flashed in a brilliant purple blue explosion. The remainder of the ships just barely clearing the blast, scooting back to the grouping of support ships where they would be repaired and have various internal structure points refitted to remove the bodies. The result of the forced jump having been a 1.15% error ratio in the jump, causing 1200 crew to loose their lives.