Masters of Andromeda II (New Horizons - The Dawn of a New Era)

[Wo2]

[ooc] Is it possible to fly through shields with a fighter? (Or larger) And thank you very Lady Hawk for my missles back. And sorry Crazy I seem to have stolen your way of Targeting. Gads when this is done I'm scrapping my ships and getting something bigger.[ooc/]

*Tal'Raka watched as Crazy's ship unlease another barage on the massive ship.*

Tal: Well I guesse there alright then. SO I take it there are no planets in here anywhere or is that ship jamming? Anyway, start a second scan, towards the Chrono Concordat I want the location of it Particle Array. If we can take it out, when the shields are down, it'll make the fighters job much easier.

SO: Beging second Scan sir

Tal'Raka: Weapons, we need to get those shields down. Link your tagetting with Crazys and fire all weapos including the SAT's.

WO: Weapons Charged.

Tal: Open Fire.

*The two scout ships under Tal'Raka's command opened up and unleased a barage on the mighty beast.*



Target: Chrono Concordat (Front Shields)
Nil'Cershal:
-1 Heavy Neutron Cannon
-1 Electro Pulse Gun
-1 Light Ion Cannon
Nil'Numeruone:
-1 Heavy Neutron Cannon
-1 Electro Pulse Gun
-1 Light Ion Cannon
SAT 3a and 3b:
-2 Electro Pulse Gun's (In total)

Fighters:
8 Light Alpha Class
Escorting Neptunes
Fire power: 40 light turbolasers.

Unused:
SAT 2a and 2b:
POWERED-DOWN

[Ur_Quan]

* Bogg was surprised by Cid's offer and his sudden moodswing. Apparently it was true; there were times when diplomacy actually worked better than pointing a disintegrator pistol at someone's head.
WO: "Captain, the Amodyte has disengaged her lock, but their particle phaser is still charging up."
Bogg: "Captain Killer, I accept your proposal, but tell me, why do you want to destroy those bug ships? You say you're war scientists, what better opportunity to gain insight in those bugs than by inspecting their ships rather than destroying them? You might find construction flaws in their shipdesign, or weaknesses in their power distribution. I don't understand you, Killer. I mean, here you are, with the largest amount of bug wrecks seen so far and the opportunity to study them and all you want to do is to destroy them as fast as you can. You may just be wasting your only chance to save Shraan from oblivion."

[AcidK]

*Cid shook his head and sighed.*

Cid: Because we already know the designs of C'raaskian ships and what lies within them. And it scares me, much more than a fleet would. The nature of C'raask is not to destroy their opponent, but to take them over. Even sending in troops or salvage teams would be dangerous as they could be turned so darned easily. This is one of the reasons we need Kylithium... to create a technology that the C'raask are weak against.

*Cid sighed again.*

Cid: Although the only person that understood the design of the technology was the late Science Officer Reily, now we have to start from scratch or find one of her collegues somewhere near Shraan Belt.

[Lady Hawk]

moa shortly

[Hewitt]

Originally Posted by Lady Hawk

song playing in background - ....Sucide is Painless........


Hewitts Ship -

Helm - course laid in sir

Comms - Signal sent to the other 2 ships sir

No1 - Well here we go sir, in for a penny in for a credit

WO - weapons charging sir

FC - all ships in formation sir

EO - boosting sir

No1 - A full on assault ..... OOOOOHHHHH you are brave

Comms - signal from Ankaa sir (see prev posts)

No1 - War.......

Helm - we are closing at battle speed sir along with the Kronos, Capt Zappa's ship is just behind

on screen you see the great Gaurdian

SO - sats launched sir

FC - all aok sir

WC - look at the size of that thing

SO - Oho she has powerd up sir and she is closing too at battle screen

On screen battle is joined as your small fleet of ships beging the attack


BATTLE ORDERS

Ship Name: GAURDIAN

Ship Class:
Cruiser - (FREE HULL (Shadow Bonus))
10 shield mounts (All Used)
20 turret mounts (All Used)
24 external mounts (11 Unused)
24 additional mounts (All Used)
5000 tonnes cargo hold (61 Tonnes in use)

Engines:
2x Impulse Drive – 1 Add
Shadow Jump Drive – FREE. 6 Add.

Armour/Shields:
Colapsium Armoured Hull – 20,000C, 1 Add
1x Energy Shields – 5,000C, 4 Shield Mounts
3x Shadow Shields – 36,000C, 6 Shield Mounts

Weapons:
2x Shadow Quantum Bolt Cannons – Free. 20 Turret Mounts
3x Partical Lasers – 4,500C. 6 Turret Mounts
4x Neutron Cannons – 24,000C. 4 Turret Mounts

Additional:
Advanced AI Ships Computer – 250C, 1 Add
Advanced Tactics Computer – 400C, 1 Add
Security Stations – 6000C, 2 Add, 50 Tonnes
Armory – 5000C. 2 Add
Weapon Slots [10]

External:
Deflector Dish – 500C, 1 Ex.
10 Quantum Torpedoes – 10,000C, 10 Ex (20 Shots)
10 Mosquito Class Fighters (1x Light Plasma Cannon) – 1500C. 2 Ex.

Hold:
Advanced Ai Ships Computer – 1 Tonne
Security Stations – 50 Tonnes
20 Marines – 10000C 20 Tonnes
20 SSS – 20,000C 20 Tonnes.

Total Cost: 147,150
Credits Remaining: 2850C

Forward shield 85%
forward port shield 85%
forward starbaord shield 85%
port shield 88%
starbaord shield 88%

moderate hull damage
light internal damage

5% loss of speed
10% loss of secondary power
10% loss on hull intergrity
15% loss of weapon power

Your Ships

Hewitt
weapons charging 3 posts

Pandora
forward shield 90%
forward port shield 90%
forward starbaord shield 90%


10 Jupiter Class Fighters


Inspectre
Weapons Charged

Kronos
forward shield 90%
forward port shield 90%
forward starbaord shield 90%


Zappa
weapons charged

Asteas Vengance

5 Alpha Class Fighters

volleys of quantom torps are launched from the Gaurdian toward the lead vessles of Kronos anf Pandora

-------------Future site of detailed post---------------

including:
- a spiffy space action sequence of Pandora's fighters shooting down the torps.
- pretty explosions caused by the firing of a NOVA missile swarm and no less than six photon cannons
- a witty comment on the apparent cowadice of one of Zappa's offspring.

[J-Kama-Ka-C]

"Alright, so System #5 is laid claim to. Very well, we can catch the mission report from Ankaa Control in the morning, then we can see how far Flik and the others got. I had hoped to get the jump on them sweeping through two close proximity system, but agreed, we can do more good establishing ourselves here first. Which means having something done about the Oro marines down there sooner than I'd expected, wonder what they were up to, oh and Number One, see to it that what ever slaves were being shipped get accomodated, until we can return them to freespace.

Now that we have the loyalty of two more crews, I have a task, though first we'll also need to remove the remaining Oro tags on the ships and have the pair renamed, repainted and relicensed when the paper work is taken care of. From this moment, the Green Monkey Battle Frigates will go under the titles 'El Dorado' and 'Shangri la'. We can have all the offical stuff once that station is up and running, which needs doing right away, I have the schematics here.

Once we have a working base of operations we'll have a much better platform to carry out an investigation of the system, the frigates are assigned to cover constructions. We'll liaise with their science officers, maybe they uncovered something before we arrived...

A ship left that crater?! Another puzzle for us, then there's that power source... No I said power source - not energy spike. The one of the planet. Two parsecs..? We're practically in orbit..."

*Kama is once more corrected on the meaning of "Incoming ship" by herSO and EO, as worst fears come to light, she realises she isn't totally infallible. :eek:

"Oh a ship I mishead your I thought you said something about, Transwarp, con~do~wits... Damn it!"

*With the magnified image on screen, she is pressured into coming up with some sort of plan. And it had better be a cunning one at that.

"Tactical alert, crew to their stations. Quickly now while there is time to prepare... or better yet, before they have time to spot us! Engine room, give me full drive, we're going out there!

The XGP will proceed ahead of the frigates, they are to wait and defend the station until it is functional, and if need should arrise, fall in for cover.

Helm, intercept course, we want to catch them, here, en route to the gas cloud just outside the system, do what you can and I'll see about this tactically delicious cunning plan of devilish proportion."

(I image this course of action will some what lower the post count before Cruiser meets Cube)

[Ur_Quan]

Flapjack, you have been DMed (post #518-#520). We've all been DMed. Everything that came after LH's last reply (and some posts before that) are all new replies. LH hasn't skipped anyone.

[Lady Hawk]

Originally Posted by flapjack

LH ??? me, bakan and toejam haven't been DMed yet

wait, neither has darkling and several other people

get to it, please ??

you were dmed

[Darkling]

Originally Posted by Darkling

With lightning relxes pulls across the safety belt built into his command chair, his figner tapping at the cotrnol altering the view on screen
"Communcations tell those destoryers that we are mvoing forward any damage being infilcted on that cube, strees to them we have a crew trying to reive the cube to further aid us"
A moaning sound ehcoes along the hull as the weapon firer from the enmy crusiers brush along the sheilds. Letting of a mild curse
"Curse be their souls for all eternity"
Releasing the baording hatch from the cube the Black Rose shudders under the pressure, a flare of its engines sneding it driving forward to ggreet the enemy ships.
"Helm keep changing our postions once we fire, weapons concetrate emp blast at their forward sheilds. Communcations hail the destroyers I want one them to cover us, splitting their fighters into two squads. Informa the furthest destoyer with due haste flank the right crusier whislt we deal with the left one using half of squadron from the otehr one as extra cover."
Bellwoing orders with no room for error now, a stern look within his eyes, one of buring hatred as eveeryone is to busy to reply as the Black Rose walzes through space like a madmam possed

Helm - "Sir ive plotted our coruse to follow a random heading, diverting our some of the energy reserves for greater manuvrabilty"

Weapons - "The EMP wont last long before they burn out if their kept at this power level, whatevr you plan to do I hope it happens"

A nervous quiver dancing across the mans lips

"Not to worry if we dont do this we are dead anyway, helm keep our coruse random but staying to the center of the two ship, our ultimate aim is to be able to get between them. No 1 organise the boarding and repeling parties just in case, with roder to kill on sight"

No 1 "Its being done as we speak sir, ill go check on them now"

The tapping of the officers boots on metal as he hurries of the bridge, a dogmatic determination buring within everyone now, failure will come on the wings of death otherwise. Carter surveys the makeshift looking crew with a hint of admiration, finding his memeories wander to his once ambitious self when life didnt seem so complicated quickly nsapped out the daze by a shuddering of the hull

Engineering - "They just grazed our sheilds this time"

"Well we shall apy them back ten fold for such an insult"
Follwoed by sly grin
"Communications order the lead destoyer (one trailing the Black rose) to concentrate their fire at the front whsilt amiming cluster missles at the turrets, and whsilt sending orders to fire clusters at clsoe range once they have weakned the Alyssian sheilds."

Communications - "Transmitting now sir"

Overview -
Delatched from the cube ship, and heading on a randomly plotted course between the two Alyssian frigates. Using the lead destoyer as a distraction keeping behind the Black rose, meawhile the second desroyer tries to outflank the frigates using half the fighters from lead as wellas its own for more cover, with aim of taking down the frigates sheilds to fire missles at close range to force them to divert power in order to protect that flank.

Whislt this is happening the Black Rose is firing contious EMP burst at both frigates mainly aiming for forward and starboard and port sides. This is to use the speed of the Black Rose and distract the turret fire to better aid the fighters and destoyers, as well as perhaps gain opertunity to board the ships, perhaps. Not forgeting covering the team n baord the cube ship as well so protecting their own itnrest miore than anyhting else.

p.s. i types cruisers in reply above without relasing it instead of frigates so apolagise for that.

Needs a reply

[flapjack]

same for me, only mine is a couple of posts above that and so is bakan's

so, i haven't been DMed yet

[J-Kama-Ka-C]

Heh, you have been DM'd just as much as everyone elses, the last reply you wrote, Darkling's there and the one you're looking at is this week's, the episode we're all waiting for at the minute... er did I saw waiting... I meant contently biding time between moments of supreme literature... don't hurt me

[flapjack]

okay, i'll change it.

Nobody's been DMed yet

[Inspectre]

“Signal sir from Captain Hewitt’s ship: he is beginning the attack.” The Comms Officer reported, and Kali’s holographic form flickered as she nodded.

Alright, let’s finish what he starts. Helm, take us into firing range of the Guardian.

“Course laid in ma’am. We’ll be in entering maximum firing range in a matter of seconds.”

As the seconds counted down, Kali tapped her fingers down on the armrest of Julian’s command chair. The lack of physical force behind Kali’s fingers meant that the action was silent, something that would be quite disconcerting to an observer unused to hologram interaction.

“Well, here we go.” The No1 said out loud, breaking the silence on the bridge as Kali continued her tapping and the rest of the officers communicated with each other and their instruments via the Mind Link.

An instant later, the Chief Medical Officer entered the bridge from the lift, along with two more medical orderlies and an AG gurney.

“Alright Ensign Mallory, now that the gurney’s here we can get our captain down to the Medical Bay and give him some real treatment. Consider yourself relieved.”

“To go to the bathroom!!” Julian suddenly broke-in, before collapsing into a fit of childish giggles.

Ensign Mallory managed to just roll his eyes, and his regret of giving his captain Morphine clearly showed on his face. Julian was not done yet, however.

As the two orderlies and the Chief Medical Officer carefully lifted Julian onto the gurney, he stopped giggling. Instead, he suddenly began to attempt to push himself up into a sitting position, resisting the efforts of the orderlies to hold him down.

“Number 1!! Number 1!!!” Julian shouted, and the No1 naturally walked over to see what his captain needed to say before being transported down to the Medical Bay.

“Yes, Captain?” he asked as he came to stand beside the gurney.

Julian gave him a blank stare for a moment, and then in his most serious voice, he intoned, “Number 1 . . . I order you . . . to take a number 2!!”

Julian then began to laugh hysterically at his own joke, stopping only when the pain managed to break through the Morphine and clear his mind momentarily. Meanwhile, the No1 and Chief Medical Officer were mortified, while the two orderlies simply shook their heads in disbelief. This was the captain they had signed up under?

“Ahem . . . all weapons are fully charged.” The Weapons Officer broke in, his fingers flying over his controls in his eagerness to being the destruction.

Don’t fire until I give the order, Weapons Officer.

“You have full power ma’am, FTL engines are still off line.” The Engineering Officer reported over the Mind Link, followed shortly by the Flight Officer’s report.

“My pilots are ready. Satellites are being prepped for launch.”

Good. All hands, prepare for battle.

“We’ve reached optimum firing range, ma’am. The Guardian is . . .” The Science Officer began to report, but was cut off as the Weapons Officer exuberantly cried,

“The Guardian is dead!”

The Weapons Officer hammered his controls, letting loose with every weapon that the Kronos had at the Guardian’s frontal shields. The majority of the weapons seemed to be harmlessly absorbed into the shields of the ancient ship, but the Chrono weapons sliced cleanly through the warship’s shields, striking and displacing sections of the Guardian’s hull. Although the fire was unfocused, it seemed to heavily damage the Guardian nonetheless.

“Oooo . . . . pretty.” Julian said, fascinated by the brilliant streaks of weapons fire and bright explosions of energy.

WEAPONS OFFICER!! DID I NOT TELL YOU TO HOLD YOUR FIRE UNTIL I GAVE THE ORDER!!! Kali’s voice boomed throughout the Mind Link, causing all of the bridge crew to visibly cringe.

“I . . . I’m . . . sorry, ma’am. I forgot myself in the heat of the moment.”

BE THANKFUL JULIAN’S IN HAPPY LAND RIGHT NOW, BECAUSE I’M SURE HE’D HAVE “FORGOTTEN” YOU IN A CYCLING AIRLOCK!! NEXT TIME, WAIT UNTIL I GIVE THE ORDER, OR I WILL BE THE ONE TO FORGET!!

The Weapon’s Office, shame-faced, bowed his head and muttered, “M-my apologies. It won’t happen again.”

While Kali was giving the Weapons Officer a chunk of her mind, Julian had found something new to entertain himself with . . . the controls to the AG gurney. Touching one of them, Julian unknowingly detached the gurney from its current magnetic hold on that specific section of the bridge’s floor. Aided by the lurch from the weapons fire, the gurney quickly began to slide towards the lift doors.

“Yeehah! Get along little gurney!!” Julian yelled enthusiastically as the gurney picked up speed, leaving the Medical Officer and orderlies behind to gape at the sight.

As Julian approached the lift doors, they recognized him, but not the fact that he was currently resting on a medical gurney, and quite high on drugs. Thus, they stupidly did what they always did when Julian or another life-form approached: slide open. For some bizarre mechanical reason, however, the lift was not quite there yet, so that Julian entered an empty lift tube.

Teetering on the edge for a moment, Julian’s next comment summed up his situation nicely . . . “Uh ooooooh.”

A moment later, the medical gurney slid the rest of the way into the lift, sending Julian flying down the lift tube . . . all ten feet of it, down onto the top of the rising lift.

“Whhheee!!! I’m fly - ARGGGHH!!” Julian cried as he flew down those ten feet at impressive speed, and then landed with an even more impressive impact, reducing his body further into a bloody pulp.

Most of the pain from his new injuries, however, were blocked off by the Morphine after a few seconds, and Julian was once again a grinning idiot.

“That was fun! Let’s do it again!! Hahahah!!”

Hearing Julian’s continuing cries of glee as the lift rose the rest of the way up to the bridge, Kali held a face up to her hand.

Sometimes I wish I had just left him to rot. He’s just not worth the circuit aches.


“Orders, ma’am?” The No1 prompted, as the Helmsman skillfully swung the Kronos to port, sweeping the proud vessel past the Guardian.

“The Guardian has launched a volley of quantum torpedoes at us and Hewitt’s ship. Captain Aishlin’s ship seems to be hanging back for the moment, and has not engaged the Guardian ship as of yet.”

Grrrr . . . alright. Comms Officer, open a channel to Captain Aishlin’s ship.

“Channel open, ma’am.”

“Captain Aishlin . . . this is Commander Kali of the Kronos. I believe we have an agreement that we are to destroy the Guardian together? We’re holding up our end of the bargain . . . now hold up yours.”

Kali’s hologram then angrily gestured for the Comms Officer to cut the channel, before turning her attention to the matter of keeping herself in one piece. She analyzed several hundred complete courses of action, before selecting what she believed to be the best one and began issuing the necessary orders several seconds after she began her analysis.

Helm, plot an evasive course that will keep those torpedoes as far away from us for as long as possible, yet keeping us in the Guardian’s port Quadrant.

“Aye ma’am.”

Flight Officer, are those satellites launched yet?

“They are ma’am. We’re bringing the last of them online now.”

Good. Send the two Decoys into that swarm of quantum torpedoes chasing after us. The two Flyswatters are to assist by shooting down as many of those torpedoes as possible before they reach the Decoys or us. The four Blasters are to do what they do best, hammering a hole in that Guardian’s port shields. The two Hammers are to follow that strike up with a couple of cruise missiles.

“Yes ma’am. I’ll relay your orders to the pilots immediately.”

Weapons Officer, now listen to me VERY CAREFULLY. I want you to use our pulse phaser to shoot down as many of those nasty quantum torpedoes as possible. DON’T shoot it at anything else. Have our quantum torpedo tubes be reloaded for their second shot, but hold them until a more opportune moment: namely, WHEN I TELL YOU IT IS AN OPPORTUNE MOMENT. Understand?

“Y-yes . . . m-ma’am!”

Good. Snap to it then, all of you. Oh, and Medical Officer? Get Julian down from there, and make sure he doesn’t break anything else on the way to the Medical Bay.

Orders

Comms Officer – Open a channel to Captain Zappa’s ship, so Kali can insult her “womanhood” :-D
Weapons Officer – Reload quantum torpedoes (don’t fire them), target incoming quantum torpedoes with pulse phaser
Helm – Evasive Action within the Guardian’s port quadrant, attempting to keep the range open with those incoming torpedoes for as long as possible
Flight Officer – Use the “Decoys” & “Flyswatters” to divert/destroy incoming torpedoes, fire the “Blaster” and “Hammer” satellites at the Guardian

Weapons

1. Pulse Phaser – Incoming Quantum Torpedoes
2. “Flyswatter” satellites’ cluster missiles – Incoming Quantum Torpedoes
3. “Blaster” satellites’ Phaser 4 – Guardian, Port Shields
4. “Hammer” satellites Cruise Missiles – Guardian, Port Shields

[Lady Hawk]

Originally Posted by flapjack

*flapjack held tightly as the ship rocked again under the impact of the enemy weaponsfire, then smiled as the first and third frigate where put out of commision in a semi-permanent way*

WO: oh yea, direct hit, that frigate is dead sir

SO: WO is correct sir, the lead frigate has been reduced to a wreck and the third frigate has been crippled.

EO: sir, we've got damage to the engines, we're busy fixing it tough (i'm assuming the 10% loss of maneuverability is due to engine damage as you can see)

me: good, target the second frigate, EO divert some power from the aft shields to the forward shields, they won't survive much longer otherwise, Helm, set us up for a head-on with that second frigate, don't pull out till the last second

EO: i'm on it sir

helm: yes sir, maneuvering for a head-on with the second frigate

WO: let me guess, i'm to fire the weapons at point-blank range, right ?

me: you're right WO, focus all our weapons fire into 1 point on their shields, they appear to be pretty much unarmoured below their shields so if we can punch even a small hole in those shields we're sure to give them a hell of a beating

Mission 2

1 - Lt Comm Flapjack
2 - Lt Comm Bakan
3 - Lt Comm Darkling
4 - Lt Comm Toejam

GAL VARON PRIME

A binary star system 1 red giant GAL and 1 small neutron star VARRON.

there are 10 planets that orbit both stars

GAL VARON PRIME I - barren rock world, little of interest

GAL VARON PRIME II - barren desert world, has high concentration of minerals and metals, this place has many old mine sites on it - similar to mercury.
has 3 moons

GAL VARON PRIME III - barren world - coverd with cloud similar to Venus.

GAL VARON PRIME IV - Earth Like - has 70% water and has an oxeygen/nitrogen atmosphere. this world supports a post FTL civilisation, they are NEUTRALS but thet do support a space fleet, mainly of which they have 100

Victory Class Destroyer
Type: Heavy Destroyer

Weapons:

1 Particle Cannon
8 Pulse Phasers
6 Heavy Fuision Cannons
12 Fusion Cannons

8 AFD II
8 AMD II

12 Cluster Missile Launchers

Fighter: 56 Warlord fighter craft

Power:

1 Black Hole Generator
4 Fusion Drives

Special defense: Phased Bio Organic Hull

4 Type 20 Tractor Beams
Claoking Device

cargo hold 5000 tonnes

GAL VARON PRIME V - Again earth like and again supports life - this world has been colonised by those of GAL VARRON IV

GAL VARON PRIME VI - Ice world - this world is barren, but has 4 moons that support BIO TECH plants that provide food suppliments for the other worlds

GAL VARON PRIME VII - Gas Giant similar to Saturn with 50 moons of all sizes

GAL VARON PRIME VIII - Gas Giant the size of Neptune and has over 300 rings, but no moons

GAL VARON PRIME IX - Gas Giant similar to Neptune but has rings of colour similar to Jupiter but the colours are in green and yellow

GAL VARON PRIME X - Gas Giant sizeof Jupiter with 126 moons


On FJ's ship


Helm - course laid in sir

EO - diverting power sir, DCT are on the case sir

MD - we are handling things sir

WO - we have a weapons lock and have a firing solution sir

SO - still scanning sir

FC - all ships are with us at the moment and ar aok

No1 - we will soon have them sir

Comms - we have managed to break thru the jamming with the aid of BAKANS sattelites sir, requestionf some aid now sir

on screen you close with the Alyssian frigates and they once more open up concentrating on your aft sections, and your weapons open up as do the Alyssians weapons. the battle has now begun in ernest

EO - diverting power sir, we are still aok

your ship rocks as the weapons open up.


On Bakans ship

Hrm - we cannot do another manover like that sir, the stress on the hull

No1 - looks at him

Helm - aye sir will do - course laid in

WO - with us doing manovers like this i will have to manually fire ther weapons sir

SO - scanning to aid the WO sir

Comms - we have broken thru the jamming and requesting aid sir

Comms - signal from Galvaron control 4 V type destroyers coming to aid us (2 posts away)

MD - all ok sir

EO - diverting power - hull should be ok

SO - We hope

No1- all hands brace for impact

FC - all ships in formation sir

on screen as the manouver begins your WO begins to fire on the selected targets

also the remaining frigates give you a full on braodside of every weapon they have Cluster Missiles, Quantom Torps and full weapons fire


BATTLE ORDERS

8 x ALYSSIAN CHIMERA Class Frigate Strike Leaders

10 shield mounts
2x ALYSSIAN Singularity Shields
2x ALYSSIAN Meta Shielding

24 turret mounts
6x ALYSSIAN Pulse Phaser
4x ALYSSIAN Nova Cannon

14 external mounts
6x ALYSSIAN Quantam Torpedo Launchers
8x ALYSSIAN Cluster Missile Launchers

14 additional mounts
ALYSSIAN Heavy Armour Plating
ALYSSIAN Ablative Armour
2x ALYSSIAN Anti Matter Drive
ALYSSIAN Advanced Tactics Computer
ALYSSIAN Advanced AI Ships Computer
ALYSSIAN Advanced Engineering Bay
6x ALYSSIAN Angel Class Fighters

200 tonnes hold
ALYSSIAN Blackhole Generator
carries 2x ALYSSIAN Angel Class Fighters

1

SHE IS A BURNING WRECK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

2
fowrard shield 45%
forward port shield 45%
forward starbaord shield 45%
port shield 85%
starbaord shield 85%
aft port shield 85%
aft starboard shield 85%
aft shield 85%

light hull damage
light internal damage

5% loss of speed
5% loss of weapon power
5% loss of shield recharge rate

3
fowrard shield 45%
forward port shield 45%
forward starbaord shield 45%
port shield 85%
starbaord shield 85%
aft port shield 85%
aft starboard shield 85%
aft shield 85%

light hull damage
light internal damage

5% loss of speed
5% loss of weapon power
5% loss of shield recharge rate

4
fowrard shield 45%
forward port shield 45%
forward starbaord shield 45%
port shield 85%
starbaord shield 85%
aft port shield 85%
aft starboard shield 85%
aft shield 85%

light hull damage
light internal damage

5% loss of speed
5% loss of weapon power
5% loss of shield recharge rate


5

SHE IS CRIPPLED!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

6
fowrard shield 45%
forward port shield 45%
forward starbaord shield 45%
port shield 85%
starbaord shield 85%
aft port shield 85%
aft starboard shield 85%
aft shield 85%

light hull damage
light internal damage

5% loss of speed
5% loss of weapon power
5% loss of shield recharge rate



these bottom two are being attacked by Darkling

7
fowrard shield 85%
forward port shield 85%
forward starbaord shield 85%
port shield 85%
starbaord shield 85%

8

Fighters 30


Your ships

Flapjack
Weapon Charge 2 posts

foward shield 25%
forward port shield 25%
forward starbaord shield 25%
port shield 45%
starbaord shield 45%
aft port shield 45%
aft starbaord shield 65%
aft shield 60%

heavy hull damage
moderate internal damage

particle phaser damaged 50% effective
4 plasma cannons destroyed
1 neutron shield destroyed
AFD Mk II - 80% effective

10% loss of manuverability
5% loss of weapon power
5% total loss of shield power
5% loss of life support

Hull breaches on decks 1 & 2

23 dead 46 injured

Bakan
weapon charging 2 posts

fowrard shield 25%
forward port shield 25%
forward starbaord shield 45%
port shield 35%
starbaord shield 45%
aft port shield 80%
aft starbaord shield 90%
aft shield 70%

heavy hull damage
moderate hull damage

20% loss of speed
15% loss of weapon power
55% structural damage to hull

1 impulse drive obliterated
1 neutron shield destroyed
1 hellbore cannon destroyed

stress fracture of hull on decks 3 to 10


28 dead 65 injured


Your Ship

Darkling
fowrard shield 85%
forward port shield 85%
forward starbaord shield 85%
port shield 85%
starbaord shield 85%

[Lady Hawk]

Originally Posted by Bakan

*Pulling himself up off the ground, Bakan looks at the torn straps on his command chair and starts swearing violently as the medic injects him with morphine.*

Bakan: [homer voice] Hmmmm, Morphine.......[/homer voice]

*Hearing the ship groan, then shudder violently as the engines come back online, Bakan falls and hits his already aching head again.*

Bakan: "OUCH!! Okay, enough of the trippy times, DAMAGE REPORT!!"

Engineering Officer: "Sir, We have moderate hull damage, with a 10% loss in top speed, 5% loss in weapons power, and 35% structural damage to hull. Stress fractures on decks 3 through 7, emergency forcefields are online and holding."

Bakan: "Evaculate all non-essential personal from those decks and sections, and get the Advance Damage Control teams working on the hull from the inside. Status of the [censored] who did this."

No1: "Good news, we managed to take 2 of them out with the aid of flapjack, and they seem to be either captained by idiots or newbies, for they hit each other. Problem is, flapjack's shields are weakening, and ours are following him, while they are relatively intact so to speak."

Bakan: "Damnit..... Helm keep us moving, Engineering, try to restore our shields and weapons power, reroute power from a fusion drive if needed."

*Stumbling to his chair, Bakan grumbles as he tears off the remains of the straps and sits down as the ship shudders slightly. Looking at the stations, he sees the Science Officer, feeding sensor data to everyone, then smiles.*

Bakan: "Science Officer, do we still have those probes?"

SO: "Yes sir, why?"

Bakan: "Good, I want you to launch them at all the planets in this system, however, encode a message to the fleet in orbit of GAL VARON PRIME IV , requesting assistance. I want every probe doing this, and have them continue to feed telementry to us. I want you to have a complete status update as of now."

SO: "Aye sir, configuring probes."

Bakan: "Also have them scan for anything unusual."

SO: "Okay, working on it."

Bakan: "Tatical, let's switch tatics. Coordinate with captain flapjack's weapons office, have us target the same shield grid on the same ship, let's see if between the two of us we can overload it and punch through."

Tatical: "Okay, it will be tricky."

Bakan: "I'm sure you can do it, Helm, keep them away from our aft end, at worst besides dodging them, if you can't help it have them aft starboard shield or fore starboard shield, those two can take the punishement for now. Actually, in addition to that engineering, try to stabilize the shields, with extra power being routed aft."

Helm: "Manuvering sir, this will be tricky."

Tatical: "Just keep her in one piece. Sir, which frigate should we target."

Science Officer: "Sir, flapjack as already acted, she's moving in a head-run attack, looks like she just emptied her weapons bank into one point on the second frigates shields."

Bakan: "Change of plans, target frigate #2 also, same shield grid that flapjack attacked, let's see if we can also punch through."

Helm: "Hang on, manuvering."

*Grabbing the control sticks again, the Dune Rider banks and weaves as the Helm Officer works on manuvering her into position while avoiding enemy fire.*

Helm: "In position, however we will be flying right over flapjack's vessel. I hope he dosen't pull up."

No1: "Oh my...... COLLISION ALARM!!"

*Again, the blue lights start flashing and crewmembers hang on in the event of a collision.*

Tatical: "I have the shield grid targetted, FIRING ALL WEAPONS, point blank range also!!!"

Helm: "Pulling up and away."

Science Officer: "Probes recalibrated."

Bakan: "Good, launch the probes."

Tatical Officer: "Sir, those fighters may go after the probes."

Bakan: "Hmm, Tatical, activate the tractor beam, make it as wide as possible, see about catching as many fighters as you can with it."

Tatical Officer: "Sir...."

*Bakan then smiles evily.*

Bakan: "Then take them for a ride, as in keep them with us, letting the Anti-Fighter Defences have a field day, hell let the Anti-Missile Defences also take some out. And if you could be so kind, smash them into one of the frigates please."

*Smiling evily also, the tatical officer nods and hits the keys, activating the tractor beam, widening it so that it catches several fighters, then plays with the beam so that they are drawn to one of the frigates, while being torn apart by the Dune Rider Anti-Fighter Defences and Anti-Missile Defences.*

Bakan: "Helm, I notice we are passing near another frigate. On my mark I want you to roll us about..."

*Bakan quickly checks the tatical display.*

Bakan: "193 degrees. Tatical, for every fighter we catch with our tractor beams and destroy, snag another."

Helm: "Ready sir. We are passing the frigate on our starboard side."

Bakan: "ROLL!!"

*The helm officer complies, and the Dune Rider rotates. The captured fighters, which were on the port side are pulled along until they hit the frigate, and make very nice grooovyyyy [Hey, Bakan's still trippy] explosions against the frigate.*

Engineering: "Sir, power feedback from the explosions, tractor beam cut itself out before it caused any damage, but we should have it back up shortly."

Bakan: "Groovy EO, Science Officer, now that hopefuelly the spacelanes are clear for a minute before bright flashes of light that are weapons fire come towards us, and we are facing the planets, launch those probes."

Science Officer: "Probes launched sir. 1 per planet, all transmissing the signal requesting assistance."

Bakan: "Good, Helm move us back into the battle, cover flapjacks ship as much as possible. Tatical, coordinate with him on the next target."

Science Officer: "Sir, before we lost telementry, I detected another ship, it appears to be lt.cmdr toejam's ship, she's just sitting there."

Bakan: "Hmmm, have some marines get into the shuttles, if her crew is gone maybe we can borrow the ship and use it to our advantage, or at the very least get him into the fight."

No1: "Ordering troop deployment now."

Communications Officer: "Still trying to cut through the jamming. Lossing contact with the probes."

Bakan: "To be expected, let's hope they are able to do their job. Oh finally, start looking up the location for a good dentist here, maybe some gold teeth. Oh yeah, Comm, see if you can find which ship is causing the jamming."

Medical Officer: "Sir, I can do that dental repair."

Bakan: "Okay, later. I want you to get all wounded into the medical bays now. The dead should go into a seperate cargo bay for now, we will hold funerals for them after we are done with this.

see FJ post

[Lady Hawk]

Originally Posted by Darkling

With lightning relxes pulls across the safety belt built into his command chair, his figner tapping at the cotrnol altering the view on screen
"Communcations tell those destoryers that we are mvoing forward any damage being infilcted on that cube, strees to them we have a crew trying to reive the cube to further aid us"
A moaning sound ehcoes along the hull as the weapon firer from the enmy crusiers brush along the sheilds. Letting of a mild curse
"Curse be their souls for all eternity"
Releasing the baording hatch from the cube the Black Rose shudders under the pressure, a flare of its engines sneding it driving forward to ggreet the enemy ships.
"Helm keep changing our postions once we fire, weapons concetrate emp blast at their forward sheilds. Communcations hail the destroyers I want one them to cover us, splitting their fighters into two squads. Informa the furthest destoyer with due haste flank the right crusier whislt we deal with the left one using half of squadron from the otehr one as extra cover."
Bellwoing orders with no room for error now, a stern look within his eyes, one of buring hatred as eveeryone is to busy to reply as the Black Rose walzes through space like a madmam possed

Helm - "Sir ive plotted our coruse to follow a random heading, diverting our some of the energy reserves for greater manuvrabilty"

Weapons - "The EMP wont last long before they burn out if their kept at this power level, whatevr you plan to do I hope it happens"

A nervous quiver dancing across the mans lips

"Not to worry if we dont do this we are dead anyway, helm keep our coruse random but staying to the center of the two ship, our ultimate aim is to be able to get between them. No 1 organise the boarding and repeling parties just in case, with roder to kill on sight"

No 1 "Its being done as we speak sir, ill go check on them now"

The tapping of the officers boots on metal as he hurries of the bridge, a dogmatic determination buring within everyone now, failure will come on the wings of death otherwise. Carter surveys the makeshift looking crew with a hint of admiration, finding his memeories wander to his once ambitious self when life didnt seem so complicated quickly nsapped out the daze by a shuddering of the hull

Engineering - "They just grazed our sheilds this time"

"Well we shall apy them back ten fold for such an insult"
Follwoed by sly grin
"Communications order the lead destoyer (one trailing the Black rose) to concentrate their fire at the front whsilt amiming cluster missles at the turrets, and whsilt sending orders to fire clusters at clsoe range once they have weakned the Alyssian sheilds."

Communications - "Transmitting now sir"

Overview -
Delatched from the cube ship, and heading on a randomly plotted course between the two Alyssian frigates. Using the lead destoyer as a distraction keeping behind the Black rose, meawhile the second desroyer tries to outflank the frigates using half the fighters from lead as wellas its own for more cover, with aim of taking down the frigates sheilds to fire missles at close range to force them to divert power in order to protect that flank.

Whislt this is happening the Black Rose is firing contious EMP burst at both frigates mainly aiming for forward and starboard and port sides. This is to use the speed of the Black Rose and distract the turret fire to better aid the fighters and destoyers, as well as perhaps gain opertunity to board the ships, perhaps. Not forgeting covering the team n baord the cube ship as well so protecting their own itnrest miore than anyhting else.

p.s. i types cruisers in reply above without relasing it instead of frigates so apolagise for that.

Mission 2

1 - Lt Comm Flapjack
2 - Lt Comm Bakan
3 - Lt Comm Darkling
4 - Lt Comm Toejam

GAL VARON PRIME

A binary star system 1 red giant GAL and 1 small neutron star VARRON.

there are 10 planets that orbit both stars

GAL VARON PRIME I - barren rock world, little of interest

GAL VARON PRIME II - barren desert world, has high concentration of minerals and metals, this place has many old mine sites on it - similar to mercury.
has 3 moons

GAL VARON PRIME III - barren world - coverd with cloud similar to Venus.

GAL VARON PRIME IV - Earth Like - has 70% water and has an oxeygen/nitrogen atmosphere. this world supports a post FTL civilisation, they are NEUTRALS but thet do support a space fleet, mainly of which they have 100

Victory Class Destroyer
Type: Heavy Destroyer

Weapons:

1 Particle Cannon
8 Pulse Phasers
6 Heavy Fuision Cannons
12 Fusion Cannons

8 AFD II
8 AMD II

12 Cluster Missile Launchers

Fighter: 56 Warlord fighter craft

Power:

1 Black Hole Generator
4 Fusion Drives

Special defense: Phased Bio Organic Hull

4 Type 20 Tractor Beams
Claoking Device

cargo hold 5000 tonnes

GAL VARON PRIME V - Again earth like and again supports life - this world has been colonised by those of GAL VARRON IV

GAL VARON PRIME VI - Ice world - this world is barren, but has 4 moons that support BIO TECH plants that provide food suppliments for the other worlds

GAL VARON PRIME VII - Gas Giant similar to Saturn with 50 moons of all sizes

GAL VARON PRIME VIII - Gas Giant the size of Neptune and has over 300 rings, but no moons

GAL VARON PRIME IX - Gas Giant similar to Neptune but has rings of colour similar to Jupiter but the colours are in green and yellow

GAL VARON PRIME X - Gas Giant sizeof Jupiter with 126 moons


Comms - aye sir signal sent to the V ships

FC - all ships in formation sir and attacking respected targtes

Comms - seems that Capt BK has broke thru the jamming and has requested aid as well

Comms - incoming signal

MC - we are on baord the cubes sir, the EO team has told us that there is no way that we can get any of this cube up and running, although we beleive that there are 1 Borg Scout ship and 5 Borg fighters intact that we can man but we need some more men over here sir and the SO to disconnect the Cube Viculum so that no drones will wake up

EO - aye sir

WO - we have a weapons lock

Helm - i can use one of the destroyers as cover sir - he smiles at you

on screen the battle continues


BATTLE ORDERS

8 x ALYSSIAN CHIMERA Class Frigate Strike Leaders

10 shield mounts
2x ALYSSIAN Singularity Shields
2x ALYSSIAN Meta Shielding

24 turret mounts
6x ALYSSIAN Pulse Phaser
4x ALYSSIAN Nova Cannon

14 external mounts
6x ALYSSIAN Quantam Torpedo Launchers
8x ALYSSIAN Cluster Missile Launchers

14 additional mounts
ALYSSIAN Heavy Armour Plating
ALYSSIAN Ablative Armour
2x ALYSSIAN Anti Matter Drive
ALYSSIAN Advanced Tactics Computer
ALYSSIAN Advanced AI Ships Computer
ALYSSIAN Advanced Engineering Bay
6x ALYSSIAN Angel Class Fighters

200 tonnes hold
ALYSSIAN Blackhole Generator
carries 2x ALYSSIAN Angel Class Fighters

1

SHE IS A BURNING WRECK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

2
fowrard shield 45%
forward port shield 45%
forward starbaord shield 45%
port shield 85%
starbaord shield 85%
aft port shield 85%
aft starboard shield 85%
aft shield 85%

light hull damage
light internal damage

5% loss of speed
5% loss of weapon power
5% loss of shield recharge rate

3
fowrard shield 45%
forward port shield 45%
forward starbaord shield 45%
port shield 85%
starbaord shield 85%
aft port shield 85%
aft starboard shield 85%
aft shield 85%

light hull damage
light internal damage

5% loss of speed
5% loss of weapon power
5% loss of shield recharge rate

4
fowrard shield 45%
forward port shield 45%
forward starbaord shield 45%
port shield 85%
starbaord shield 85%
aft port shield 85%
aft starboard shield 85%
aft shield 85%

light hull damage
light internal damage

5% loss of speed
5% loss of weapon power
5% loss of shield recharge rate


5

SHE IS CRIPPLED!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

6
fowrard shield 45%
forward port shield 45%
forward starbaord shield 45%
port shield 85%
starbaord shield 85%
aft port shield 85%
aft starboard shield 85%
aft shield 85%

light hull damage
light internal damage

5% loss of speed
5% loss of weapon power
5% loss of shield recharge rate



these bottom two are being attacked by Darkling

7
fowrard shield 85%
forward port shield 85%
forward starbaord shield 85%
port shield 85%
starbaord shield 85%

8

Fighters 30


Your ships

Flapjack
Weapon Charge 2 posts

foward shield 25%
forward port shield 25%
forward starbaord shield 25%
port shield 45%
starbaord shield 45%
aft port shield 45%
aft starbaord shield 65%
aft shield 60%

heavy hull damage
moderate internal damage

particle phaser damaged 50% effective
4 plasma cannons destroyed
1 neutron shield destroyed
AFD Mk II - 80% effective

10% loss of manuverability
5% loss of weapon power
5% total loss of shield power
5% loss of life support

Hull breaches on decks 1 & 2

23 dead 46 injured

Bakan
weapon charging 2 posts

fowrard shield 25%
forward port shield 25%
forward starbaord shield 45%
port shield 35%
starbaord shield 45%
aft port shield 80%
aft starbaord shield 90%
aft shield 70%

heavy hull damage
moderate hull damage

20% loss of speed
15% loss of weapon power
55% structural damage to hull

1 impulse drive obliterated
1 neutron shield destroyed
1 hellbore cannon destroyed

stress fracture of hull on decks 3 to 10


28 dead 65 injured


Your Ship

Darkling
fowrard shield 85%
forward port shield 85%
forward starbaord shield 85%
port shield 85%
starbaord shield 85%

VD 1
forward armour 85%
forward port armour 85%
forward starbord armour 85%
port armour 85%
starbaord armour 85%


VD 2

[Lady Hawk]

more later

[Lady Hawk]

Originally Posted by AcidK

*Cid shook his head and sighed.*

Cid: Because we already know the designs of C'raaskian ships and what lies within them. And it scares me, much more than a fleet would. The nature of C'raask is not to destroy their opponent, but to take them over. Even sending in troops or salvage teams would be dangerous as they could be turned so darned easily. This is one of the reasons we need Kylithium... to create a technology that the C'raask are weak against.

*Cid sighed again.*

Cid: Although the only person that understood the design of the technology was the late Science Officer Reily, now we have to start from scratch or find one of her collegues somewhere near Shraan Belt.

fortunately you have and SO by the name of Gemma who has studdied about Kylthium..... RUBBLE

SO - scanning the remaining hulks sir and the planet

You continue with your talking with Bogg (see prev posts) just as you reach an agreement the SO looks up and gestures to the No1

No1 - walks ove and his face turns to horror, this cannot be good

Comms - sir our Comms has just been jammed

No1 - Sir......

on the planet there are signs of C'raaskian life sir

SO - one of the hulks is a C'raask Scout Carrier (the lighter version of the Swarm Ship) and whats more sir its fully manned if i am reading the scans right, but they seem not to have detected us

No1 - damn

SO - and they have the Kylthium sir to

[Lady Hawk]

Ur-quan

Comms - signal terminated sir, seems we are being jammed but not from Acid-K's ship

No1 - he seemed ok after you talked to him man to bogg sir

Comms - still cannot get thru

SO - we have what we came for sir and we have the data reading from the battle and confirmation of some hulls sir

Helm - I can lay a course sir

EO - but we have no ub33r 3llt ph33rful rubble sir

No1- well sir?

[Darkling]

Carter frowned sighing heavly weighing his descions now. Leaning back into his chair the creek of its leather under his weight, his palm pressed agisnt his forehead

Helm - "Sir what course shall i take?"

Looking up seeing the confused expresiion from his crew, rasing himself taking a deep breath

"Wepaons fire our EMP missles at the two ships, one each of coruse we only have two to spare"
Shrugs the comment of to himself
"That should hopfully give therm enugh distraction and disbale them enough to retreat back. Helm bring us about and ful speed ahead, communcations inform the destoryers we going back to rescue our crew, say they enocutered resiatnce and need evacucation."

Comms, wepons - "Aye sir"

Two blazing lights streak out from atop the Black Rose, archign in fast flight path towards the enemy ships. The Black Rose itself turing about sharply with ease due to its small size.

Helm - "Course layed in and exucting I cant gatauntee we not be hit by enemy fire"

Carter coudld not help but glare at the man, letting his eyes to softer galze, folwled by smile dawning across his face
"Well if ytou dont we be dead anyway so im sure thats insetive enough for you, if not the credits we get at end of this mission will go to having a celebration that people will talk about hows that?"

Seeing soem crew face light up leans back once more in comforte
"Commincations reply to our baording aprtty that we are on our way, also get them to capture a few disbaled drones to take with them, and make sure they are disbabled"
A cold harsheness in last part of his words, a tone of word that could cut a witless man down in seconds.
"Do i make myself clear on that point"
The helm officer only being able to nod never aving seen this side of Carter before, somthing of a dogmatic pernsality peering through his gnetle shroud
"Also inform the other captins that I express my apolagise at not being able to come to their at at this time, but my highest priortiy is my crew, for them i shall foresake all else regardless of the cost. They will aid them as soon as I.. we are able to"

Comms - "Messgae on tis way, although I dont think they really belive al that"

"belive it or not its the harsh truth of reality, I am as unlikly to abandon my ideals, no matter how much of scounrdell I may pper to people, its all I can be at end of the day for I am failure ultimutly. A misunderstood failure, that has only his crew"
Sihing sadnely almost not sure why he let this moemnt of weakness overtake him, but not eharing any replies form the crew.
"Well enough day dreaming we have ships to capture and drones to steal away, and let others opnions be damned"

The black rose flying hard and fast abck towards the cube, leaving the battle beind to its grisly end. Slwoing to a fast stop, almost threating to cause ship to collide with the large shi, narrowly slding undereath it.
"Rasie baroding hatches and send the reonfirments in, sceince I entrust you to this task. good luck to you"

Science Officer - "Aye sir, ill do my best im still curious as to why you want drone specamins"

"All in good time, lts take this one step at a time now hope to it"
Before even finshing his sentance the lanky officer rushed thrugh only exit, the sound of his footsteps dying away.

Overview -

Upon discovering that the team upon the cube needed support, taking the hard chocie of deserting fight left the battle udner false pretences. Docking with the cube and rodering the capture of some drones from the ship for plans i shall revile later if they work out to specification. As well as using the only two emp missles to allow themselves to get away unscratched hopfully heh

[Bakan]

*Pulling himself off the command deck, Bakan wipes away the blood streaming from his forehead. Looking around, Bakan sees several controls offline and smoking, sparks flying from a power conduit, and the body of a engine laying on the ground, impaled by a large metal pile.*

Bakan: "Damage report, ALL STATIONS!!"

Engineering Officer: "Heavy damage, we starboard impulse drive heavily damage..... detecting cracks in the core...."

Weapons Officer: "Looks like we also lost a Hellbore Cannon."

Engineering Officer: "Neutron Shield is also gone, overloaded. Massive stress fractures on decks 3 through 10, with 55% overall structural damage to the hull."

Helm Officer: "I only have 80% max speed available sir."

Engineering Officer: "CORE BREACH of starboard IMPULSE DRIVE!!"

Bakan: "EJECT THE DRIVE!! NOW!!!"

*Hitting a recessed panal, it slides down revealing several buttons covered in glass. Smashing one, the Dune Rider shudder violently. Outside, the starboard impulse drive jettisons, fired by one time use emergency thrusters. The drive flies away, sprewing coolent and plasma. Right behind the Dune Rider is a Alyssian frigate, moving in for the kill. Unable to move, a attempt is made, however it is to late. The damaged reactor slammed into the port fore shields of the frigate and exploded, delivering a massive energy burst explosively into the frigates shields and hull, sending super-accelerated fragements into the hull of the frigate.*

*Onboard the bridge, the Engineering officer signs and looks over at Bakan.*

Engineering Officer: "Impulse Drive ejected just in time. Looks like one of those buggers took it full force."

Weapons Officer: "I'm still trying to make targetting locks. However our anti-fighter turrets are still able to run on automatic, still having them fire on enemy fighters."

Engineering Officer: "Sir, I can't keep this up with all the high speed manuvers. We are going to tear the hull apart at this rate."

*Bakan sighs and looks over at the damaged bridge and the medical personal entering to treat the wounded and remove the dead. Waving away one such officer, Bakan looks at the tatical display.*

Communications Officer: "YES! Sir we managed to get through to the Galvaron control. They are sending reinforcements. They should be here soon."

*Smiling at himself, Bakan stumbles up and takes the helm officer by the shoulder.*

Bakan: "Listen, we need to buy some time until those ships get here. Turn us until we are facing the incoming ships. Slow turns, and once we are aligned, open the engines up as far as they will go. Weapons Officer, target the forward shields of one of the enemy frigates with all our weapons and fire, hopefuelly we can punch through. Engineering Officer, rotate the shields to protect us until we have realigned ourselves towards the incoming Galvaron ships, then reroute all shields aft. See if you can boost the raw engine speed also. No1, order some of our non-coms to transport some antimatter in emergency shuttle magnetic containers into several escape pods."

No1: "Operation Trojan sir?"

Bakan: "You betcha, get them loaded, I want some fireworks."

No1: "Aye sir. I'll get on it right away."

*Looking at his damaged chair as his first officer starts issuing orders, Bakan stumbles over to the sensor station, gently moving aside the charred body of the science officer. Looking at the fuzzy readouts, Bakan starts looking at the incoming frigates, and starts typing in commands.*

Bakan: "Weapons Officer, I'm sending you targetting data. On my mark fire at the target's I specify."

Weapons Officer: "Sir are you sure?"

Bakan: "Yes, I am sure. Helm, about what I just said, scratch it, however not all of it. On my command appoach frigate #1 , our starboard side to it perpenticular to their fore end. On my command, rotate the ship along our horizontal axis."

Helm Officer: "Plotting course and initiating. I hope this works."

*The Dune Rider flies true, leaking debris and gases from the damaged section, nearing the alyssian frigate designated #1. Watching the sensor monitors, and feeling his ship shudder violently as the frigates fire at it, the shots that were not being blocked by the shields punching into the hull. Counting down to himself, Bakan taps his fingers against the side of the panel.*

Bakan: "ROTATE NOW!! WEAPONS, FIRE AT COUNT OF 2!!"

*Tapping command furiously, the Dune Rider rotates as the weapons officer counts to himself, then fires all the weapons. While taking several major hits, the Dune Rider is able to bring it's full array of weapons to bear on the front shields and hull of the Alyssian Frigate, unleashing their fury against it. Turn away gracefully and sending a few final parting shots against it, the space around her aft end flickers as the shields are reinforced as she flies towards the incoming frieldy Galvaron destroyers.*

Weapons Officer: "Weapons have been fired, recharging, we almost have out main cannon online again."

Helm Officer: "We are at full speed towards the Galvaron destroyers."

Engineering Officer: "Aft shields full reinforced. Also the antimatter has been transported."

Bakan: "Good, No1 have the escape pods target the closet frigate behind us, and launch them on a ramming course."

*The first officer smiles and hits the buttons. With several mild thumps, 10 escape pods launch, their thrusters, designed to quickly evacuate them from a combat zone, raced towards the nearest Alyssian frigate. Not knowing what to except, the frigate let's them hit her shields, figuring that the crew was trying to evacuate from the damaged ship, and that having the relatively small craft explode on contact with shields and killing the crew to be most amusing. For the most part, their plan worked with the escape pods crashing into the forward shields. As the pods shattered, the antimatter pods, used to provide emergency power to ships shuttle size and below, also were destroyed, allowing anti-matter to react with matter, in the typical explosive manner, creating massive explosions against the forward shields of the Alyssian frigate with some of the explosive force even damaging the hull.*

*Watching the firewords on the bridge viewscreen, still amazingly enough working showed the fireworks. Smiling slightly, Bakan turned to his No1.*

Bakan: "Think that got their attention?"

No1: "Most likely. And probably pissed the hell outta them."

Bakan: "It better have. Communications, hail captain flapjack and the leader of the Galvaron ships. Secure point to point communications if possible so they can't tap. Have Captain flapjack also manuver towards the Galvaron fleet, after annoying the Alyssian frigates also to form up with us. If he can pull it off, and if you are up to it helm, have us form up enough to share shield enegy, routing it all aft, moving as fast as flapjacks ship can. As for the commander of the Galvaron fleet, inform him or her that we have some insects behind us. Once they are within firing range of the, notify us and fire 5 seconds later. Tell him we won't be in the way."

Communications Officer: "Signal established...... encoding sir, hopefuelly the Galvaron's should be able to decode it also before the Alyssians, transmitting."

No1: "You sure we can trust Captain flapjack."

Bakan: "I hope so, for we need him for this."

*Checking a ship status readout, Bakan smiles grimly.*

Bakan: "If I'm right, when those Galvaron's are in range, both our superweapons will be charged, by then we should be able to hopefuelly take all these Alyssian ships out with one volley."

Engineering Officer: "I hope so sir, we can't take much more of this."

[Wo2]

[ooc] ello? I do have a new post in there... i'm so sorry... DON'T HURT ME! [ooc/]

[Ur_Quan]

Originally Posted by Wo2

[ooc] ello? I do have a new post in there... i'm so sorry... DON'T HURT ME! [ooc/]

LH hasn't DMed everyone yet. She always DMs in pieces; sometimes you're first, sometimes you're last. Just give her a little more time. She's probably very busy.

[flapjack]

*flapjack quickly got back up, bruised all across his right arm and looked at his command chair. Only to find that it had been wiped clear off into the side of the bridge, the next moment his operations officer and engineering officer where giving off damage reports to him*

operations: hull breaches on decks 1 and 2, emergency forcefields in place and holding, Phased particle phaser damaged, 4 light plasma cannons offline, 1 neutron cannon offline

engineering: minor losses to shield power and maneuverability, life support took minor damages but can still support us, the hull is battered all over the place but our superweapons are at 33% charge sir

me: engineering, can you dump all power from the heavy pulse cannon and the linear pulse into the phased particle phaser so we can finish off the second frigate?

engineering: she isn't built to do that sir, but i'll see what i can do about it

comms: signal from bakan sir, he's asking to come in really close so we can share our shields

helm: his helm officer appears to be good enough and i'm certain i can pull it off

No1: it would give us a bigger chance of survival, it appears our aft shields are stronger then his but his forward shields are in a better condition

me: very well, do it, engineering keep trying to get me that phased particle phaser now, even at 50% power it's the strongest weapon we've got

weapons: firing at the frigate's forward shields

*fireworks of bakan's escape pods appears on viewscreen*

weapons: ooh, has he got mines or something?

operations: those weren't mines, they were escape pods loaded with anti-matter

weapons: then we can mimic them, right? we have armoured escape pods and i'm certain the engineer can fix us up something explosive

me: engineering, while you're at it, try loading up some of those armoured escape pods with explosives, any kind of explosives will do and alert me when they're ready

engineering: so now we're going to launch our escape pods at them ?

*the phoenix rising quickly swerves towards bakan's ship, the fusion drives straining to cope with the massive energy demands and pushing the ship about, the weapons suddenly firing backwards and into the second frigate's forward shields*

things i've done:
- told the engineer to dump power from the heavy pulse cannon and linear pulse into the phased particle phaser 8 in an attempt to have it finish charging this post
- told the helm officer to go along with bakan's plan and put us in really damned close
- the operations officer will then share our shields with bakan's shields so we can survive a little longer
- during all this the weapons officer fires all his weapons at the second frigate, hopefully including the phased particle phaser 8
- in the background a couple of ensigns under command of the engineer have begun loading up 10 of the escape pods with any kind of explosives they could find

[AcidK]

*Cid shot up from his seat and hobbled quickly to the scanning station. When he had seen his fear confirmed, he banged his fist hard on the wall.*

Cid: Damnit! We were so close!
SO: Sir, they seem to be in the blue about us, sir. But they must be jamming signals for a damned good reason.
Cid: Hmm, they might be getting worried about Bogg's ship closing in on them. Can we get our communications back online, at least a burst transmission?
Comms: No, sir, communication with the Rainbow is impossible at this time.
Cid: Damnit! The last thing I want to see is him witnessing a C'raask without knowing how to deal with them. Well, keep that damned cannon charging, all weapon power that is not directed to the Particle Cannon is to divert to sheilds. Keep us at a decent enough distance, far enough for them not to notice us and close enough for us to hit him when the time comes. I want a suprise attack, no fancy flying, no delays to see what damage we have caused. I want the attack to commence before they know what hit them!

*Cid walked to the veiwport and stared out hard, his No1 following him behind. Both of them were veterans against C'raask... but a Carrier was something else.*

Cid: If they get enough time to launch fighters, we would not have a hope in hell.
No1: Any particular target you want the cannon to aim at, sir?
Cid: I would say bridge, but they don't use them... I would say sheild generators, but without scanning it'd be like looking for a needle in a haystack.
No1: Sir, are you sure you want to shoot the living hell out of that ship? It has the Kylithium sitting inside it!

*Cid sighed and looked to Heidegan Kosaga, his father's old No1 and possibly the most loyal member to the Empire in the entire Shraanian Fleet.*

Cid: We cannot risk allowing them to take that Kylithium and use it for their own cause. Besides, we could always salvage the Kylithium after the battle.
No1: Would you dare allow the order to send in troops to salvage within a C'raask vessel?

*Cid looked back at the veiwport and sighed again. He never would like to send in any marines to witness the horror that he went through when going through one of those things. Especially if his crew were green.*

Cid: They must learn the horror some time, Kosaga... Besides, would you tell your crew that we are leaving Kylithium behind just because it sits within the battered hulk of a C'raaskian vessel?

*Kosaga hesitated, Cid had not been more correct about the matter than that remark. Going into a C'raaskian vessel was hell, the experiments they do could churn the stomachs of even the experienced members of the ship. But, in the same waym leaving Kylithium behind was like running in fear. Shraan fleets held no fear, that's why they survived.*

Cid: Then it is settled, we go in once it has finished. This battle is not over until the fat kid sings.
No1: I beleive that's 'fat lady sings', sir. It's a human expresion.
Cid: Shame, it sounded good too...

[Lady Hawk]

Originally Posted by Zappa Tenderlea

did I order you to follow yet?

Helm - no sir...

and what is my Gender?

Helm - Ma'am?

good. Stay back for now. We need the data from our SO first.

get our shields recalibrated, I want frontal shields to have the most power. 75 procent even.

WO: if you can, shoot some of those torpedos out of space, along with those fighters the enemy carries. other than that, keep cool, and perfect your aiming with the phased relfex cannon. We'll need it to hit dead on

MD: how is the treatment of those wounded comming along?

EO: if you need help fixing those engines, say it now. we need them back online asap

Comms: this is not the right time. send a message to the pandora's box and the Kronos. Ask them to, firstly, adress me with MY name, not my fathers, and secondly, keep the Guardian in it's current position. it is verry important that it does not move to much from it's current position, you understand?

Helm: start preparing our assault. We are going to storm in, ramming speed, fire all our weapons point blank, while cutting the engines. The blast of our weapons should propel us back, thus evading the greater part of the blast. Time this perfectly with the EO, he'll cut back power to you and the engines as soon as we, in the spin that we will probably arrive due to the out of control propulsion, face the Guardian again. at this point, you will blast our engines again, forcing us out of the spin, and bring us back into the combat. I know this is riscy, but we can do it, and this way, we'll inflict max damage on the enemy. DO NOT YET PERFORM THIS STUNT! think it over first, and prepare it together with the EO and the WO. get going.

No1: I know I'm hot. get over it, and stop drooling on my bridge.

to crew in general: I am female. The first one from this point on to adress me as Sir, will be shot out of a burial tube alive, without a spacesuit. you will be aimed at the guardian. maybe you can unnerve it as much as you unnerved me, thus being at least slightly usefull. adress me as Ma'am, Mss Aislin, or Captain. I am not in a good mood.

everyone got that?

Crew: yes Ma'am!

good, let's go.

Mission 5

1 - Lt Comm Hewitt
2 - Lt Comm Inspectre
3 - Lt Comm Nightrain
4 - Lt Comm Zappa

hey guess what - yup you lot only get one post to (yes what a mean woman i am)


Planetary system 1 light year away

orbiting a dieing Neutron Star.

8 planets....

STEPPING STONE 2

planet I - small dirt ball - not much interest - 3 moons - heavy mineral deposits

planet II - small barren rock

planet III - Earth like - remenants of a Tech Level XVII civalisation - 3 moons and an UKNKOWN SHIP.......

planet IV - Water World - earth like - 2 moons

planet V - Gas Giant - 146 moons

planet VI - Gas Giant - planatery rings - rotates on its side - 3 large earth sized moons

planet VII - Ice Ball

planet VIII - Ice ball

Conformation of WORMHOLE near planet VI

Scanning Ship

No known data

Ships AI Indicates could be a GAURDIAN CLASS type ship

Hewitt - engine damage reduction in power 25% - time to repair 3 hours

Inspectre - engine damage reduction in power 25% - time to repair 2 hours

Nightrain - engine damage reduction in power 25% - time to repair 3 hours

Zappa - engine damage reduction in power 25% - time to repair 2 hours

Ship Name: GAURDIAN

Ship Class:
Cruiser - (FREE HULL (Shadow Bonus))
10 shield mounts (All Used)
20 turret mounts (All Used)
24 external mounts (11 Unused)
24 additional mounts (All Used)
5000 tonnes cargo hold (61 Tonnes in use)

Engines:
2x Impulse Drive – 1 Add
Shadow Jump Drive – FREE. 6 Add.

Armour/Shields:
Colapsium Armoured Hull – 20,000C, 1 Add
1x Energy Shields – 5,000C, 4 Shield Mounts
3x Shadow Shields – 36,000C, 6 Shield Mounts

Weapons:
2x Shadow Quantum Bolt Cannons – Free. 20 Turret Mounts
3x Partical Lasers – 4,500C. 6 Turret Mounts
4x Neutron Cannons – 24,000C. 4 Turret Mounts

Additional:
Advanced AI Ships Computer – 250C, 1 Add
Advanced Tactics Computer – 400C, 1 Add
Security Stations – 6000C, 2 Add, 50 Tonnes
Armory – 5000C. 2 Add
Weapon Slots [10]

External:
Deflector Dish – 500C, 1 Ex.
10 Quantum Torpedoes – 10,000C, 10 Ex (20 Shots)
10 Mosquito Class Fighters (1x Light Plasma Cannon) – 1500C. 2 Ex.

Hold:
Advanced Ai Ships Computer – 1 Tonne
Security Stations – 50 Tonnes
20 Marines – 10000C 20 Tonnes
20 SSS – 20,000C 20 Tonnes.

Total Cost: 147,150
Credits Remaining: 2850C


Zappa ship


helm - aye sir will do

SO - prepearing the plan sir

EO - the ftl engines will be off line for some hours yet sir, they will not be fixed unless we are perfectly stationary, but you do have full sublight engines

WO - aye sir will work on the plan

Comms - signal sent to the other ships sir

adress me with MY name, not my fathers, and secondly, keep the Guardian in it's current position. it is verry important that it does not move to much from it's current position, you understand

Comms - signal sent sir

No1- we are holding position sir

you see your crew doing what they were ordered to do

MD - we are on it sir all ar ok

Comms - Signal from Capt Julian

channel open, ma’am.”

“Captain Aishlin . . . this is Commander Kali of the Kronos. I believe we have an agreement that we are to destroy the Guardian together? We’re holding up our end of the bargain . . . now hold up yours.”

No1- Response ma'am


Inspectres Ship


Kali looks at you and inwardly graons

Comms - signal open sir

“Channel open, ma’am.”

“Captain Aishlin . . . this is Commander Kali of the Kronos. I believe we have an agreement that we are to destroy the Guardian together? We’re holding up our end of the bargain . . . now hold up yours.”

Comms - signal sent

Helm - aye sir here we go again

WO - aye sir weapons charging and holding as requested

SO - all SAT's are launched sir

FC - keeping track of them sir, and all ships in formation

WO - we have a weapons lock sir and firing solutions sir

MD - at last sir we have come up with a new body for Capt Julian ma'am its a reprogrammed Cloned Drone body of a borg but with most of the external borg bits taken off

Kali - ?????

MD - it will have the strength of 10 men and can regenerate wounds at twice normal healing rate as well as enhanced senses

Kali - then do it

the last thing you sense is your brain being lifted out of your body, time passes and you find your self awake and feeling 300 times better than you ever did (CHRONO SURGERY WAS USED on you 24 hours of surgery was done in the space of 2 minutes)

Kali - welcome back that is an improvement.


on screen the weapons open up again as this time you make a joint attack with Hewitts ship


Hewitts Ship -




BATTLE ORDERS

Ship Name: GAURDIAN

Ship Class:
Cruiser - (FREE HULL (Shadow Bonus))
10 shield mounts (All Used)
20 turret mounts (All Used)
24 external mounts (11 Unused)
24 additional mounts (All Used)
5000 tonnes cargo hold (61 Tonnes in use)

Engines:
2x Impulse Drive – 1 Add
Shadow Jump Drive – FREE. 6 Add.

Armour/Shields:
Colapsium Armoured Hull – 20,000C, 1 Add
1x Energy Shields – 5,000C, 4 Shield Mounts
3x Shadow Shields – 36,000C, 6 Shield Mounts

Weapons:
2x Shadow Quantum Bolt Cannons – Free. 20 Turret Mounts
3x Partical Lasers – 4,500C. 6 Turret Mounts
4x Neutron Cannons – 24,000C. 4 Turret Mounts

Additional:
Advanced AI Ships Computer – 250C, 1 Add
Advanced Tactics Computer – 400C, 1 Add
Security Stations – 6000C, 2 Add, 50 Tonnes
Armory – 5000C. 2 Add
Weapon Slots [10]

External:
Deflector Dish – 500C, 1 Ex.
10 Quantum Torpedoes – 10,000C, 10 Ex (20 Shots)
10 Mosquito Class Fighters (1x Light Plasma Cannon) – 1500C. 2 Ex.

Hold:
Advanced Ai Ships Computer – 1 Tonne
Security Stations – 50 Tonnes
20 Marines – 10000C 20 Tonnes
20 SSS – 20,000C 20 Tonnes.

Total Cost: 147,150
Credits Remaining: 2850C

Forward shield 80%
forward port shield 80%
forward starbaord shield 80%
port shield 88%
starbaord shield 88%
aft port shield 90%
aft starbaord shield 90%
aft shield 90%

moderate hull damage
light internal damage

5% loss of speed
10% loss of secondary power
10% loss on hull intergrity
15% loss of weapon power

Your Ships

Hewitt
weapons charging 3 posts

Pandora
forward shield 80%
forward port shield 80%
forward starbaord shield 80%
port shield 80%
starbaord shield 80%
aft port shield 90%
aft starbaord shield 90%
aft shield90%

light hull damage

10 Jupiter Class Fighters


Inspectre
Weapons Charged

Kronos
forward shield 80%
forward port shield 80%
forward starbaord shield 80%
port shield 90%
starbaord shield 90%
aft port shield 90%
aft starbaord shield 90%
aft shield 90%


Zappa
weapons charged

Asteas Vengance

5 Alpha Class Fighters

volleys of quantom torps are launched from the Gaurdian yet again toward the lead vessles of Kronos anf Pandora

[Lady Hawk]

Originally Posted by Inspectre

“Signal sir from Captain Hewitt’s ship: he is beginning the attack.” The Comms Officer reported, and Kali’s holographic form flickered as she nodded.

Alright, let’s finish what he starts. Helm, take us into firing range of the Guardian.

“Course laid in ma’am. We’ll be in entering maximum firing range in a matter of seconds.”

As the seconds counted down, Kali tapped her fingers down on the armrest of Julian’s command chair. The lack of physical force behind Kali’s fingers meant that the action was silent, something that would be quite disconcerting to an observer unused to hologram interaction.

“Well, here we go.” The No1 said out loud, breaking the silence on the bridge as Kali continued her tapping and the rest of the officers communicated with each other and their instruments via the Mind Link.

An instant later, the Chief Medical Officer entered the bridge from the lift, along with two more medical orderlies and an AG gurney.

“Alright Ensign Mallory, now that the gurney’s here we can get our captain down to the Medical Bay and give him some real treatment. Consider yourself relieved.”

“To go to the bathroom!!” Julian suddenly broke-in, before collapsing into a fit of childish giggles.

Ensign Mallory managed to just roll his eyes, and his regret of giving his captain Morphine clearly showed on his face. Julian was not done yet, however.

As the two orderlies and the Chief Medical Officer carefully lifted Julian onto the gurney, he stopped giggling. Instead, he suddenly began to attempt to push himself up into a sitting position, resisting the efforts of the orderlies to hold him down.

“Number 1!! Number 1!!!” Julian shouted, and the No1 naturally walked over to see what his captain needed to say before being transported down to the Medical Bay.

“Yes, Captain?” he asked as he came to stand beside the gurney.

Julian gave him a blank stare for a moment, and then in his most serious voice, he intoned, “Number 1 . . . I order you . . . to take a number 2!!”

Julian then began to laugh hysterically at his own joke, stopping only when the pain managed to break through the Morphine and clear his mind momentarily. Meanwhile, the No1 and Chief Medical Officer were mortified, while the two orderlies simply shook their heads in disbelief. This was the captain they had signed up under?

“Ahem . . . all weapons are fully charged.” The Weapons Officer broke in, his fingers flying over his controls in his eagerness to being the destruction.

Don’t fire until I give the order, Weapons Officer.

“You have full power ma’am, FTL engines are still off line.” The Engineering Officer reported over the Mind Link, followed shortly by the Flight Officer’s report.

“My pilots are ready. Satellites are being prepped for launch.”

Good. All hands, prepare for battle.

“We’ve reached optimum firing range, ma’am. The Guardian is . . .” The Science Officer began to report, but was cut off as the Weapons Officer exuberantly cried,

“The Guardian is dead!”

The Weapons Officer hammered his controls, letting loose with every weapon that the Kronos had at the Guardian’s frontal shields. The majority of the weapons seemed to be harmlessly absorbed into the shields of the ancient ship, but the Chrono weapons sliced cleanly through the warship’s shields, striking and displacing sections of the Guardian’s hull. Although the fire was unfocused, it seemed to heavily damage the Guardian nonetheless.

“Oooo . . . . pretty.” Julian said, fascinated by the brilliant streaks of weapons fire and bright explosions of energy.

WEAPONS OFFICER!! DID I NOT TELL YOU TO HOLD YOUR FIRE UNTIL I GAVE THE ORDER!!! Kali’s voice boomed throughout the Mind Link, causing all of the bridge crew to visibly cringe.

“I . . . I’m . . . sorry, ma’am. I forgot myself in the heat of the moment.”

BE THANKFUL JULIAN’S IN HAPPY LAND RIGHT NOW, BECAUSE I’M SURE HE’D HAVE “FORGOTTEN” YOU IN A CYCLING AIRLOCK!! NEXT TIME, WAIT UNTIL I GIVE THE ORDER, OR I WILL BE THE ONE TO FORGET!!

The Weapon’s Office, shame-faced, bowed his head and muttered, “M-my apologies. It won’t happen again.”

While Kali was giving the Weapons Officer a chunk of her mind, Julian had found something new to entertain himself with . . . the controls to the AG gurney. Touching one of them, Julian unknowingly detached the gurney from its current magnetic hold on that specific section of the bridge’s floor. Aided by the lurch from the weapons fire, the gurney quickly began to slide towards the lift doors.

“Yeehah! Get along little gurney!!” Julian yelled enthusiastically as the gurney picked up speed, leaving the Medical Officer and orderlies behind to gape at the sight.

As Julian approached the lift doors, they recognized him, but not the fact that he was currently resting on a medical gurney, and quite high on drugs. Thus, they stupidly did what they always did when Julian or another life-form approached: slide open. For some bizarre mechanical reason, however, the lift was not quite there yet, so that Julian entered an empty lift tube.

Teetering on the edge for a moment, Julian’s next comment summed up his situation nicely . . . “Uh ooooooh.”

A moment later, the medical gurney slid the rest of the way into the lift, sending Julian flying down the lift tube . . . all ten feet of it, down onto the top of the rising lift.

“Whhheee!!! I’m fly - ARGGGHH!!” Julian cried as he flew down those ten feet at impressive speed, and then landed with an even more impressive impact, reducing his body further into a bloody pulp.

Most of the pain from his new injuries, however, were blocked off by the Morphine after a few seconds, and Julian was once again a grinning idiot.

“That was fun! Let’s do it again!! Hahahah!!”

Hearing Julian’s continuing cries of glee as the lift rose the rest of the way up to the bridge, Kali held a face up to her hand.

Sometimes I wish I had just left him to rot. He’s just not worth the circuit aches.


“Orders, ma’am?” The No1 prompted, as the Helmsman skillfully swung the Kronos to port, sweeping the proud vessel past the Guardian.

“The Guardian has launched a volley of quantum torpedoes at us and Hewitt’s ship. Captain Aishlin’s ship seems to be hanging back for the moment, and has not engaged the Guardian ship as of yet.”

Grrrr . . . alright. Comms Officer, open a channel to Captain Aishlin’s ship.

“Channel open, ma’am.”

“Captain Aishlin . . . this is Commander Kali of the Kronos. I believe we have an agreement that we are to destroy the Guardian together? We’re holding up our end of the bargain . . . now hold up yours.”

Kali’s hologram then angrily gestured for the Comms Officer to cut the channel, before turning her attention to the matter of keeping herself in one piece. She analyzed several hundred complete courses of action, before selecting what she believed to be the best one and began issuing the necessary orders several seconds after she began her analysis.

Helm, plot an evasive course that will keep those torpedoes as far away from us for as long as possible, yet keeping us in the Guardian’s port Quadrant.

“Aye ma’am.”

Flight Officer, are those satellites launched yet?

“They are ma’am. We’re bringing the last of them online now.”

Good. Send the two Decoys into that swarm of quantum torpedoes chasing after us. The two Flyswatters are to assist by shooting down as many of those torpedoes as possible before they reach the Decoys or us. The four Blasters are to do what they do best, hammering a hole in that Guardian’s port shields. The two Hammers are to follow that strike up with a couple of cruise missiles.

“Yes ma’am. I’ll relay your orders to the pilots immediately.”

Weapons Officer, now listen to me VERY CAREFULLY. I want you to use our pulse phaser to shoot down as many of those nasty quantum torpedoes as possible. DON’T shoot it at anything else. Have our quantum torpedo tubes be reloaded for their second shot, but hold them until a more opportune moment: namely, WHEN I TELL YOU IT IS AN OPPORTUNE MOMENT. Understand?

“Y-yes . . . m-ma’am!”

Good. Snap to it then, all of you. Oh, and Medical Officer? Get Julian down from there, and make sure he doesn’t break anything else on the way to the Medical Bay.

Orders

Comms Officer – Open a channel to Captain Zappa’s ship, so Kali can insult her “womanhood” :-D
Weapons Officer – Reload quantum torpedoes (don’t fire them), target incoming quantum torpedoes with pulse phaser
Helm – Evasive Action within the Guardian’s port quadrant, attempting to keep the range open with those incoming torpedoes for as long as possible
Flight Officer – Use the “Decoys” & “Flyswatters” to divert/destroy incoming torpedoes, fire the “Blaster” and “Hammer” satellites at the Guardian

Weapons

1. Pulse Phaser – Incoming Quantum Torpedoes
2. “Flyswatter” satellites’ cluster missiles – Incoming Quantum Torpedoes
3. “Blaster” satellites’ Phaser 4 – Guardian, Port Shields
4. “Hammer” satellites Cruise Missiles – Guardian, Port Shields

see post for zappa

[Lady Hawk]

Originally Posted by Hewitt

-------------Future site of detailed post---------------

including:
- a spiffy space action sequence of Pandora's fighters shooting down the torps.
- pretty explosions caused by the firing of a NOVA missile swarm and no less than six photon cannons
- a witty comment on the apparent cowadice of one of Zappa's offspring.

oooh well see reply for Zappa

[Lady Hawk]

more later

[Lady Hawk]

Originally Posted by Crazyboy

*Crazy gripped onto the arms of his chair as his ship shook from the pounding from the Chrono Concordat. His chest strained against the straps holding him into his chair as his ship took a sudden deaccelleration.*

"Damage report!"

Tactical Officer: All forward shields are down to sixty percent. Port, starboard and aft shields down to eighty percent. We've taken moderate hull damage and internal damage. Fires reported on multiple decks. They are under control. We've lost Flight Control and have taken a 10% weapon power loss. Fuel leak in main Impulse drives. We've lost a quarter of our fuel sir. Our engines are down by 30% in power. We have hull breaches on decks 5, 8 and 10. Those areas are already sealed off sir. We've taken some causalties from engineering and firing control. Seventeen reported dead. Med bays reporting injured coming in from other parts of the ship"

*Crazy silently cursed the concordat, and silently saluted the dead. He closed his eyes for a brief second, letting the anger flow out of him. He couldn't get angry over the death of 17 of his crew. He had another 15,000 odd personal under his command. He could't let seventeen deaths bother him. Not now anyway. He had a concordat to beat.*

*Crazy slowly tapped on his console, bringing up a tactical display of the battle*

"CAG, order all fighters launched. I want our slipstream fighters to take out the enemy chrono fighters. All others are to concentrate on the enemy ship. Get our gunboats in there as well. All fighters attacking the concordat are to target their forward shields, and forward shields only."

CAG: "Roger sir. Fighter bays, this is the bridge, scramble, scramble. Attack groups Alpha through Lima, target enemy fighters. All other Attack Groups, target the concordat. Take out their forward shields"

"Tactical. Whats the status on our weapons?"

Tactical Officer: "Gunports open. Weapon charge at 100%."

"Give me a firing solution on the concordat. Forward shields. All weapons"

TO: "Roger."

*The TO's hands danced across his keypad. The weapons on the carrier turned, angling towards the concordat, as they were brought to bear on the ship.*

TO: "We have a targeting solution. All weapons are locked on."

"Fire."

*Crazy said the word with no remorse. The Tactical officer gladdy relayed the command to the firing control teams. Weapons fire lanced through space. The shots from the carrier shotting past the dancing dots that were the masses of fighters. The concordat was lit up as energy was poured into the ships shields, smashing against it.*

"Helm. Whats the status on our jump engines. Can we use them?"

Helm: "They are online and fully powered. Unknow if we can use them yet though. There is still quiet a lot of temporal distoration around"

"See if you can get them working. Tactical, feed the exact co-ordinates of the concordats main reactors to helm. See if you two can open a jump point for me on top of that ship"

Helm: "Sir yes sir. Working on it!"

- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -

Target: Chrono Concordat
Command Carrier Chrysalis
- 2x Phased Hellbore Cannons
- 5x Fusion Cannons
- 2x Medium Ion Cannons
- 3x Particle Lasers
- 1x Particle Array

- 80x Jupiter Medium Fighters
- 60x Nial Heavy Fighters
- 10x Gunboats

Target: Chrono Avengers
- 120 Slipstream Fighters

On Wo2 ship


Helm - aye sir course laid in, keeping our ships wiothin the fighter swarm of Crazys ships sir

No1 - looks at you - Our helm is ace is he not

WO - we have a firing solution sir

SO - scanning sir

FC - all ships are aok sir

MD - we are aok sir lets just hope that we do not get hit by any of those main weapons again


On Crazys ship


Helm - aye sir course laid in

EO - engines still off line sir

SO - they will be off line for as long as we are here sir

No1 - we have the fighters to take it on but I do not think they will be enough

MD - we are working sir

FC - all ship have launched sir and are in formation

WC - aye sir we are locking on to targets

No1 - she is still a big bugger though

on screen your fighters begin their run on the mighty ship, your Carrier enters Firing range and opens up on the Concordat.....

Then the Time Concordat opens up with its Chrono Weapons (12 Chrono Phaser ones again ) on the Fleet Carrier and your ships, then you look in amazement at the main weapons of the Concordat open up on the ships, namely yuor ship....


BATTLE ORDERS

A TIME CONCORDAT

Chronian Concordat Battle Star
this beast is a minimum 1km long

Shields (30):
5 Chrono Shields (30)

Weaponry (192 (96*2)):
Twin Turret Mount Upgrade (4) (not counted in the 192 total)
4 Mounts Unused (4) (these are counted)

2 Particle Arrays (20)
40 Neutron Cannons (40)

12 Chrono Phasers 1 (48)
8 Chrono Pulse Cannons (80)

External (60):
4 Chronoton Torp Launchers (32)
2 Chronoton Mine Launchers (16)

60 Chrono Avengers (12)
60 Chrono Avengers (N/A)

Additional (70):
13 Engine/Drive Mounts (13)
3 Empty Mounts (3)

Chrono Hull (1)
Chrono Armour (1)
Colapsioum Armoured Hull (N/A)

Advanced AI Ships Computer (N/A)
9 Advanced AI Ships Computers (9)
Advanced Tactics Computer (1)
10 Advanced Engineering Bays (20)
Advanced Flight Control (N/A)
Advanced Med Bay (N/A)

Sensor Array (2)
Lateral Sensor Array (4)

2 Tractor Beams Mk20 (N/A)
4 Tractor Beams Mk20 (16)

Engines/Drives (1+13=14):
10 Impulse Drives (10)
4 Chrono Drives (4)

20000 tonnes hold

100 Chrono fighters

Forward Shield 50%
forward port shield 50%
forward starbaord shield 50%
port shield 70%
starbaord shield 70%
aft port shield 60%
aft starbaord shield 60%
aft shield 70%

light hull damage
light internal damage

5% loss of Manuverability
5% loss of weapon power
10% loss of seconadry power
+1 extra post to charge time for chrono weapons as chrono engines damaged
2 Chronoton Mine Launchers (16) - destroyed


Your Ships

Wo2

1
Forward shield 80%
forward port shield 80%
forward starbaord shield 80%
port shield 80%
starbaord shield 80%
aft port shield 80%
aft starbaord shield 80%
aft shield 80%

light hull damage
light internal damage

5% loss of secondary power

2

7 alpha Class

Crazyboy

Carrier

Forward shield 40%
forward port shield 40%
forward starbaord shield 40%
port shield 60%
starbaord shield 60%
aft port shield 60%
aft starbaord shield 60%
aft shield 60%

Serious Hull damage
moderate internal damage

Flight Control - DESTROYED!!!!!!!!!!!
2 Fusion Cannons - DESTROYED
1 Energy Shield - DESTROYED!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

20% reduction in weapon power
40% reduction in Speed
25% Fuel Loss

Breaches on Decks 4, 5 , 8, 10

23 Dead 52 Injured

- 110 x Slipstream Fighters
- 70 x Jupiter Medium Fighters
- 60 x Nial Heavy Fighters
- 10 x Gunboats


NPC

Science Ships

1 - DESTROYED!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

2 - DESTROYED!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

3

4

Escort Carrier
Forward shield 80%
forward port shield 80%
forward starbaord shield 80%
port shield 80%
starbaord shield 80%
aft port shield 80%
aft starbaord shield 80%
aft shield 80%

10 Modified Neptune

Then the beast itself lets rip with another devastating volley of Accurate Energy Weapons fire.......

1 more of the science vessels is wasted

[Lady Hawk]

Originally Posted by Wo2

[ooc] Is it possible to fly through shields with a fighter? (Or larger) And thank you very Lady Hawk for my missles back. And sorry Crazy I seem to have stolen your way of Targeting. Gads when this is done I'm scrapping my ships and getting something bigger.[ooc/]

*Tal'Raka watched as Crazy's ship unlease another barage on the massive ship.*

Tal: Well I guesse there alright then. SO I take it there are no planets in here anywhere or is that ship jamming? Anyway, start a second scan, towards the Chrono Concordat I want the location of it Particle Array. If we can take it out, when the shields are down, it'll make the fighters job much easier.

SO: Beging second Scan sir

Tal'Raka: Weapons, we need to get those shields down. Link your tagetting with Crazys and fire all weapos including the SAT's.

WO: Weapons Charged.

Tal: Open Fire.

*The two scout ships under Tal'Raka's command opened up and unleased a barage on the mighty beast.*



Target: Chrono Concordat (Front Shields)
Nil'Cershal:
-1 Heavy Neutron Cannon
-1 Electro Pulse Gun
-1 Light Ion Cannon
Nil'Numeruone:
-1 Heavy Neutron Cannon
-1 Electro Pulse Gun
-1 Light Ion Cannon
SAT 3a and 3b:
-2 Electro Pulse Gun's (In total)

Fighters:
8 Light Alpha Class
Escorting Neptunes
Fire power: 40 light turbolasers.

Unused:
SAT 2a and 2b:
POWERED-DOWN

see post for crazy

[Lady Hawk]

Originally Posted by Planetkiller II

ooc// blasted board ate my post, so this will be of... poorer quality due to a retype. //ooc

"Mr. Pierce, are we about ready to wrap this up?"

No1: Aye sir, we will make a good go of it.

"Right, get ND on the comm, inform him that we are targeting Frigate 4, ask him if he wouldn't mind disabling Frigate 3."

Comms: Actually, he's just sent us a message.

"Well what are you waiting for, play it!"

*The message plays*

"Silly ND, of course we're not going to fire on a disabled ship. Send that too. Now, to business. Bring us about and set up for another attack run, attack pattern Alpha Omega 5, up from under the bow, fire both heavy disruptors then go over the top, cloaking as we go."

Helm: Now underway.

"The Draconics should follow us in and fire on the same position, like we did before. However, the Drakes are to come in behind. Since they don't have shields, their engines should be vulnerable. Try and disable them."

WO: Aye.

"I have to say, this thing with the yearlings and massive fusion reactors is puzzling, if not a little worrying. We should remain ready to jump out at a moment's notice, in case they decide to blow themselves up. However, since there's not much we can to stop them doing it currently, we're going to have to continue firing."

one post fer the two of you

System 27 light years in Insectid Space - 8 planets

System - GLORANTHA MINOR

GLORANTHA MINOR I - Small Desert world - no moons - little of interest

GLORANTHA MINOR II - Large Rock World - Has no atmosphere but has extensive caverns and possible atmoshphere below surface. Has life signs.... this seems to be the world suited to the most vicious of Insectids - the Solanoids (like soldier ants)

GLORANTHA MINOR III - Jungle world - life signs - low technology - pre FTL travel

GLORANTHA MINOR IV - 5 moons - barren rock

GLORANTHA MINOR V - Gas Giant size of Uranus - 9 moons

GLORANTHA MINOR VI - Gas Giant size of Neptune

GLORANTHA MINOR VII - Gas Giant size of saturn - 106 moons

GLORANTHA MINOR VIII collection of Asteroids the largest the size of earths moon and also comets.


ND's Flagship

Comms - signal from PK saying which target he would like assistanace with

No1 - We have nearly wrapped this combat up sir

SMC - moving on to next targtet sir we have this ship secure and the enhines have been disabled

EO - all aok sir, fuel ok too

Comms - we are still jamming the signals sir

No1 - Victory is within our grasp sir


on PK ship

WO - firing now sir

Helm - on course sir

No1 - we have the targtets sir and we are commencing the manouver

EO - we have full power sir ADVENT will not hold out much longer sir, the fuel drain is quite large we are down to 50% fuel sir

PMC - the white tiger is proving of aid the vessel is ours sir

WC - aye sir following you in just lead the way

FC - all ships in formation sir

SO - they could be used as bombs unless they can be disabled

PMC - working on it sir

Comms - signal sent to Capt ND sir

on screen your weapons open up once more on the frigates.

Helm - aye sir moving away

SO - claoking sir


Fuel status

ND ships - Fuel Status 65%
PK ship - Fuel Status 50%


BATTLE ORDER

TYRANNID CLASS STRIKE FRIGATES
Hull: Frigate Strike Leader
150 tonnes hold
carries 2 heavy class fighters

Shields (5):
-traded in for additional mounts-

Weaponry (12+6=18):
Particle Phaser 7 (10)
4 Pulse Phasers (8)

External (7):
2 Devastation Class Heavy Fighters (N/A)
3 Devastation Class Heavy Fighters (6)
Phased Photon Torpedo (1)

Additional (7+5=12):
6 Weaponry Mounts (6)
2 Engine/Drive Mounts (2)
Crystaline Armour (1)

Advanced Engineering Bay (2)
Advanced Ships AI Computer (1)

Engines/Drives (1+2=3):
2 Cold Fusion Drives (2)
Black Hole Generator (1)

1

She Surrenders!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

SHE IS CRIPPLED!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

forward armour 10%
forward port aemour 10%
forward starbaord armour 10%
port armour 90%
starbaord armour 90%
aft port armour 90%
aft starbaord armour 90%
aft armour 90%

heavy hull damage
heavy internal damage

All weapons destroyed
Engines destroyed
Life Support failing

speed reduction 90%


2

She Surrenders!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

SHE IS A BURNING WRECK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

forward armour 05%
forward port aemour 05%
forward starbaord armour 05%
port armour 90%
starbaord armour 90%
aft port armour 90%
aft starbaord armour 90%
aft armour 90%

heavy hull damage
heavy internal damage

90% reduction of weapons
80% reduction of engine power
80% reduction of secondary systems

3
forward armour 30%
forward port aemour 30%
forward starbaord armour 30%
port armour 40%
starbaord armour 40%
aft port armour 70%
aft starbaord armour 70%
aft armour 70%

moderate internal damage
moderate hull damage

75% speed reduction
60% loss of weapon power
60% loss of engine power

Life Support destroyed
2 pulse phasers destroyed


4
forward armour 30%
forward port aemour 30%
forward starbaord armour 30%
port armour 40%
starbaord armour 40%
aft port armour 70%
aft starbaord armour 70%
aft armour 70%

moderate internal damage
moderate hull damage

75% speed reduction
60% loss of weapon power
60% loss of engine power

Life Support destroyed
2 pulse phasers destroyed


5

HAS SURRENDERD !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

forward armour 20%
forward port aemour 20%
forward starbaord armour 20%
port armour 60%
starbaord armour 60%
aft port armour - 70%
aft starbaord armour 70%
aft armour 70%

moderate hull damage
serious internal damage

speed reduction 50%
50% loss of weapon power
50% loss of engine power

2 pulse phasers destroyed


fighters 15 Devastation Class


Your Ships

ND

Shikinami
forward shield 60%
forward port shield 60%
forward starbaord shield 60%
port shield 80%
starbaord shield 80%
aft port shield 90%
aft starbaord shield 90%
aft shield 90%

Akitsuki
forward shield 70%
forward port shield 70%
forward starbaord shield 70%
port shield 80%
starbaord shield 80%
aft port shield 90%
aft starbaord shield 90%
aft shield 90%

the other one that begins with A

Fighters

Neptune 2
Jupiter 3

PKII

weapon charged

Striker Draconis
forward shield 60%
forward port shield 60%
forward starbaord shield 60%
port shield 80%
starbaord shield 80%
aft port shield 90%
aft starbaord shield 90%
aft shield 90%

light hull damage
light internal damage

Hull Armour 95%

5% loss of weapon power
5% loss of scanning power

[Lady Hawk]

ND - seen as reply is late i will continue from the last post

[Lady Hawk]

Originally Posted by Fluffie

"Yeah, so, uh... Call in the cavalry. Every ship - all the Runabouts, our frigates... And yeah, the freighters too. Maximum power to weapons and shields, come in guns blazing. Now!"

Comms - AYE!

"Helm, enter an offensive flying pattern. WO, Engineering. Drop cloak, charge weapons and begin attacking. We'll be going for their belly ships."

Helm - Bringing us around for an attack run, bottom of that cruiser is looking nice and shiny.

WO - Indeed it is. Nova Cannon, Pulse Phasers coming online, power from cloak being redirected to weapons.

EO - Armour.. Should take initial punches and provide us with some more juice; or at least, that's what they told me.

"Right, Science, our ships coming yet?"

SO - They are... But maybe those other Federation ships are too?

"Damned right. That's why we'll do this quick."

MC - Troops are still all standing by. I've put the ADCT on stand-by for boarding too, in case we need to board that ship and get it up and running too.

Comms - Frigates signal they have boarding parties ready in their shuttles too.

"Good. Once we get a spot in their shields open, the FTL'll try to get in first. If that doesn't work, it'll be up to the frigates."

Comms - Roger that. Relaying assault plan to our vessels.

No1 - Make sure they target the belly too. The freighters are on Anti Fighter Duty as soon as we detect fighter launch.

FC - Our three Angels are on standby..

"Launch'em if they launch fighers."

FC - Roger that, getting the pilots to their ****pits now.

Comms - Incoming ships are affirming their targets. Freighters and Runabouts will weaken the bottom/belly shields first, then the Frigates'll try to make the final hole.

SO - Nothing on scanners yet apart from our own vessels.

And so, the story the continues! I take it you get what I want to do, eh? If not, my MSN is known to you... Wooooo

Comms - aye sir signal sent on secure channel

No1 - well could be our first big hitter sir

SO - scanning sir

EO - all fuel is aok

No1 - time to try out our new ships then sir

FC - all ships have their orders and have selected tartgets sir, all in formation and tracking

MD - we are ready then sir

WO - we have a weapons lock sir

Helm - here we go taking us in sir

on screen your ships close with the ship and begin to launch the attack .....


BATTLE ORDER

2 x Hades Class Medium Cruiser

8 shield mounts
2x Kinetic Sheilds
Energy Sheilds
Phase Shields

20 turret mounts
3x Fusion Cannons
2x Nova Cannon
10x Gatling Laser

14 external mounts
4x Quantam Torpedoes Launcher
20x Polaris class (drones)

20 additional mounts
Heavy Deutrium Armoured Hull
3x Ram Scoop/Hydrogen Drive
Cloaking Device
Advavced Engineering Bay
Deflector Dish
Advanced Tactics Computer
5x Gun Boat

3000 tonnes hold
Black Hole Generator

1
Forward Shield 80%
forward port shield 80%
forward starbaord shield 80%
port shield 90%
starbaord shield 90%
aft port shield 90%
aft starbaord shield 90%
aft shield 90%


2

---

1 x ABYSS class Medium Carrier

2 shield mounts
Medium Plasma Sheilds

6 turrent mounts
4x Battle Laser
4x Laser Cannon

12 external mounts
12x Nebulae Class Heavy Fighter

12 additional mounts
Heavy Armour Plating
1x Ion Drive
8x Nebulae Class Heavy Fighter
Sensor Array

40 fighters of medium class = 40x Hawk Class Medium Fighter

12250 tonnes hold
Warp Drive


Your ships

FTL Scout

Frigates
1

2

Freighters

1

2

3


SO - the other 2 ships have returned sir, damn we have been trapped, seems we have a

(dun dun durrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr!!!!) a traiotor on board


oooooooh i am evul

[Lady Hawk]

Originally Posted by Flik

OMG! sry Lh, ill get my reply I after i finish my project, probably 3-5 hours ill start the reply...

still needed please

[Lady Hawk]

Originally Posted by J-Kama-Ka-C

"Alright, so System #5 is laid claim to. Very well, we can catch the mission report from Ankaa Control in the morning, then we can see how far Flik and the others got. I had hoped to get the jump on them sweeping through two close proximity system, but agreed, we can do more good establishing ourselves here first. Which means having something done about the Oro marines down there sooner than I'd expected, wonder what they were up to, oh and Number One, see to it that what ever slaves were being shipped get accomodated, until we can return them to freespace.

Now that we have the loyalty of two more crews, I have a task, though first we'll also need to remove the remaining Oro tags on the ships and have the pair renamed, repainted and relicensed when the paper work is taken care of. From this moment, the Green Monkey Battle Frigates will go under the titles 'El Dorado' and 'Shangri la'. We can have all the offical stuff once that station is up and running, which needs doing right away, I have the schematics here.

Once we have a working base of operations we'll have a much better platform to carry out an investigation of the system, the frigates are assigned to cover constructions. We'll liaise with their science officers, maybe they uncovered something before we arrived...

A ship left that crater?! Another puzzle for us, then there's that power source... No I said power source - not energy spike. The one of the planet. Two parsecs..? We're practically in orbit..."

*Kama is once more corrected on the meaning of "Incoming ship" by herSO and EO, as worst fears come to light, she realises she isn't totally infallible. :eek:

"Oh a ship I mishead your I thought you said something about, Transwarp, con~do~wits... Damn it!"

*With the magnified image on screen, she is pressured into coming up with some sort of plan. And it had better be a cunning one at that.

"Tactical alert, crew to their stations. Quickly now while there is time to prepare... or better yet, before they have time to spot us! Engine room, give me full drive, we're going out there!

The XGP will proceed ahead of the frigates, they are to wait and defend the station until it is functional, and if need should arrise, fall in for cover.

Helm, intercept course, we want to catch them, here, en route to the gas cloud just outside the system, do what you can and I'll see about this tactically delicious cunning plan of devilish proportion."

(I image this course of action will some what lower the post count before Cruiser meets Cube)

SO - Scanning

System Name - KASTRAVALVA

System has been terraformed - the Suns are a Red Giant and a yellow dwarf

KASTRAVALVA I - 3 moons - nearest to the sun - has a high metal Content and has many Insectidf Ore processing plants - no sign of life - one of the moons has a vast crater the size of south america though......

KASTRAVALVA II - no moons - desert world - is the perfect home for INSECTID DRONES, there are many ruins that show no life, but there is a large power source from the planets surface - man made or insectid made

KASTRAVALVA III - Terraformed with 2 moons - this is a jungle world that is teeming with life and there are wrecks in orbit of MANTIS and INSECTID vessels..... but no sign of any INSECTID life.

KASTRAVALVA IV - Gas Giant - no moons size of Saturn

KASTRAVALVA V - Gas Giant size of jupiter with 300 moons

SO - Am detecting 2 Ships sir....

2 House Oro ships

Green Monkey Battle Frigates

(20 mounts to do with as you please + 1 engine mount
150 tonnes hold)

Heavy Armour Plating - 1 mount
Phase Shields - 2 mounts

16 x Laser - c 100 - 4 to 1 mount (4 mounts)
8 x Gatling Laser - c 300 - 2 to 1 mount (4 mounts)
4 x Battle-Laser - c 500 - 1 mount (4 mounts)

Advanced AI Ships Computer - c 250 - 1 mount (+ 1 tonne of carge space)
Advanced Tactics Computer - c 400 - 1 mount
Advavced Engineering Bay - c 500 - 2 mounts

Cold Fusion Drive - c 200 - 1 engine mount
Hyper Drive - c 300 - 1 mount


Helm - Shall i hide us in the atmosphere of one of the planets sir?

Comms - i have the borg channels sir and we can jam them and possibly listen in to them

SO - unsucessful in trying to upload the Nightrain virus sir seems they have adapted

No1- we need a plan sir so that we can hit them hard from all sides before they get to adapt sir

EO - and we need to start some repairs as well sir if we canand refuel

No1 - we must stop them from locating the Space Station as well sir

SO - we need some kind of way of stopping them or shutting them down or some way of badly damaging them

No1 - we could blow up one of the moons sir, use 4 ofthe Cargo pods we carry load them with light missiles and detonate them on the moon near the cube and cause it to do massive amounts of damage?

[Lady Hawk]

Ranks


1 - Commander Acid-K:
Score: 130
Medals: 0
Crew Morale: Average
Crew Experiance: Green
Crew Effeciancy: 0%

2 - Commander Ur-quan:
Score: 127
Medals: 0
Crew Morale: Average
Crew Experiance: Green
Crew Effeciancy: 0%

3 - Commander Bakan:
Score: 105
Medals: 0
Crew Morale: Average
Crew Experiance: Green
Crew Effeciancy: 0%

4 - Commander No Dachi:
Score: 100
Medals: 0
Crew Morale: Average
Crew Experiance: Green
Crew Effeciancy: 0%

5 - Commander J-Kama-Ka-C:
Score: 100
Medals: 0
Crew Morale: Average
Crew Experiance: Green
Crew Effeciancy: 0%

6 - Commander Darkling <<<<<--------------------PROMOTED
Score: 100
Medals: 0
Crew Morale: Average
Crew Experiance: Green
Crew Effeciancy: 0%

7 - Commander Zappa:
Score: 100
Medals: 0
Crew Morale: Average
Crew Experiance: Green
Crew Effeciancy: 0%

8 - Commander Fluffie:
Score: 98
Medals: 0
Crew Morale: Average
Crew Experiance: Green
Crew Effeciancy: 0%

9 - Lt Commander Wo2
Score: 97
Medals: 0
Crew Morale: Average
Crew Experiance: Green
Crew Effeciancy: 0%

10 - Lt Commander Inspectre:
Score: 95
Medals: 0
Crew Morale: Average
Crew Experiance: Green
Crew Effeciancy: 0%

11 - Lt Commander Planetkiller II
Score: 94
Medals: 0
Crew Morale: Average
Crew Experiance: Green
Crew Effeciancy: 0%

12 - Lt Commander Crazyboy
Score: 76
Medals: 0
Crew Morale: Average
Crew Experiance: Green
Crew Effeciancy: 0%

13 - Lt Commander Flapjack:
Score: 76
Medals: 0
Crew Morale: Average
Crew Experiance: Green
Crew Effeciancy: 0%

14 - Lt Commander Flik
Score: 70
Medals: 0
Crew Morale: Average
Crew Experiance: Green
Crew Effeciancy: 0%

15 - Lt Commander Hewitt:
Score: 50
Medals: 0
Crew Morale: Average
Crew Experiance: Green
Crew Effeciancy: 0%

[Lady Hawk]

Bounties:

1 - Commander Fluffie:
Score: 70
Medals: 0
Crew Morale: Average
Crew Experiance: Green
Crew Effeciancy: 0%

Rating: Semi Dangerous Pirate

Reward: 250000c for Capture

this pirate is wanted for the crime of capturing KIPIRE Merchant ships.

If you can recover the said merchant ships then there will also be a bonus paid


2 - Commander J-Kama-Ka-C:
Score: 84
Medals: 0
Crew Morale: Average
Crew Experiance: Green
Crew Effeciancy: 0%

Rating - Semi Dangerous Pirate

Reward - 150000c for Capture

Wanted by House Oro - this pirate is wanted for the malicious capture of some House Oro Frigates and the disruption of the Slave Trade in KASTRAVALVA.

[Lady Hawk]

who will be the Xmas no1 - ?

[Hewitt]

Not me, says I!!! \o/

(Curse this silly season, it hath sucked all my time away)

[Wo2]

*Wo2 watched as the massive ship unleashed another volley on Crazy's and Devoran's ship.*

Tal: Status on those ships?

SO: Devoran's ship's shields are still holding and he seems ok. Crazy is a difrent story. His shields are battered, he has heavy hull damage and he's lost flight control. I don't think he can take much more of this.

Tal: Helm Move us between him and the Concordat.

No1: Sir are you sure that is wise?

Tal: No but if we don't do anything Crazy is doomed and I don't want his death on my hands. We've lost too many as it is. Comm tell the Nil'Numeruone to get as much of it's self between the sci vessles and the Concordat. Tell them to becareful, If they take too much damage they are free to leave the sci-vessles on thier own.

*The Nil'Cershal moves away from it's sister ship and puts itself between Crazy and danger. The scout ship fires another volley at the front shields of the Concordat. Back near the Sci-vessels the Nil'Numeruone repositions it's self to cover as much of the sci-vessels as it can. When it's captain (Rakia) feels he has postioned it well enough, the ship fires another volley.*

Target: Chrono Concordat (Front Shields)
Nil'Cershal:
-1 Heavy Neutron Cannon
-1 Electro Pulse Gun
-1 Light Ion Cannon
Nil'Numeruone:
-1 Heavy Neutron Cannon
-1 Electro Pulse Gun
-1 Light Ion Cannon
SAT 3a and 3b:
-2 Electro Pulse Gun's (In total)

Fighters:
7 Light Alpha Class
Commencing Attack run on Chrono Concordat
Fire power: 35 light turbolasers.

[AcidK]

By the looks of it, me and UQ are close to that Xmas No1. I really should re-open the Awards of the RP Boards for christmas, it hasn't been on for a while (I know, LH was supposed to do it, but I did not want to give her much more work to do when it's easier for me, a person that only does part-time work and college (equivilent to high-school for the US, but a little more selective on subject). However, time for a celebrationary cigar

[Fluffie]

Originally Posted by Lady Hawk

who will be the Xmas no1 - ?

in other words, who'll receive the shiny prize?

[Ur_Quan]

Originally Posted by AcidK

By the looks of it, me and UQ are close to that Xmas No1. I really should re-open the Awards of the RP Boards for christmas, it hasn't been on for a while (I know, LH was supposed to do it, but I did not want to give her much more work to do when it's easier for me, a person that only does part-time work and college (equivilent to high-school for the US, but a little more selective on subject). However, time for a celebrationary cigar

Things change rapidly and I seriously doubt I'll be on top. Being 2nd is a nice incentive to write keep on writing though. That reminds me, I need to do a post for this thread and LotD. Not a lot of inspiration currently, but I'll try to do it very soon.

[Lady Hawk]

Originally Posted by Ur_Quan

Things change rapidly and I seriously doubt I'll be on top. Being 2nd is a nice incentive to write keep on writing though. That reminds me, I need to do a post for this thread and LotD. Not a lot of inspiration currently, but I'll try to do it very soon.

do it otherwise you will be punished :reindeer: :sleigh: :sleigh: :reindeer:

[Ur_Quan]

Originally Posted by Lady Hawk

do it otherwise you will be punished :reindeer: :sleigh: :sleigh: :reindeer:

Alright then. I'll do it as soon as possible, probably tonight. :snowman:

[Planetkiller II]

No1 - Sir, we've got them.

"We have?"

SO - Yes sir, that last shot just brought their armour down to 30%

"Well what're you waiting for, get the troops over there, right now."

MC - Frigate secured, Pyrian Brigade, jump to the next target on my mark. Three. Two. One. Energise!

*In a blaze of energy, the majority of the troops disappeared from various points in the enemy fleet, leaving only a skeleton unit to finish mopping up on Friagtes 1, 2 and 5. Seconds later, they reatomised in the bridges and engine rooms of Frigates 3 and 4.*

*Despite a moment of disorientation as they appeared inside the hostile vessels, the brigadesmen reacted with all the speed that they were trained to. The small Younglings presented a far smaller threat than their larger cousins would have, but they were still armed, still dangerous. Nick materialised inside the engine room of Frigate 4, plasma rifle powered up before he arrived. There was a moment of stunned silence, then the carnage began. The invading marines used their element of suprise to their advantage, blasting away several of the chitinous creatures with green beams of super-heated power.*

Brigadesman: Nothing more than shooting ****roaches, eh sir?

MC: Careful, just because they're weak doesn't mean that they can't be a problem.

*The squad surged forward, using the (rather slimy) architecture of the engine room for a vague kind of cover. Their green plasma fire was met by a cacophany of colours as the mismatched arms of the Younglings returned fire. Nick pulled back behind an outcropping, avoiding the energy beams. A blob of slime dripped onto the MC's visor, and he grimaced, then wiped it away.*

MC: I pity the clean up crew that has to deal with this once we're finished.

Brigadesman: I hear you sir, but how do you want to deal with these guys? Want us to cover you?

*He motioned towards the mass of slowly advancing Younglings, which were inaccurately spraying fire in the Pyrian's general direction. One of the marines popped out, fired a shot then ducked back in, just in time.*

MC: I think not, I don't want to get anyone killed here if possible. Comms on. Lieutenant, I need a precision teleport of our 'special guest' to the coordinates I'm now supplying.

Brigadesman Lieutenant (On Comm): Oh with much pleasure sir, I'll be glad to be rid of it. Transporting now.

*In the midst of the alien enemy, the shimmering colours of a transporter reversion appeared. The Younglings stopped and turned to face it. Then with a roar followed by a scream, the white tiger was among them in a maelstrom of teeth and claws on both sides. Nick lead the charge while they were still distracted.*

MC: Stick it to em, marines!

*They did. Soon, all that was left in the engine room was a squad of rather slimed brigadesmen, one happily full white tiger, and about half the quantity of Younglings there had been to start with. Unfortunately for the aliens, they were missing their other halves. Nick took time to take stock. He looked about and saw a gigantic array of engines, the drives that were known to be able to be used as bombs. They pulsated in a slightly worrying manner. The marine commander motioned for an engineer to take a look at the main control panel. The techie did so, sitting and cracking his fingers before tapping in a few commands.*

Engineer: Looks clear sir, I'm disabling their power now... done. The drives are no longer a problem, and the rest of the original crew should be trapped in their current locations.

MC: OK, good job people. Sweep the area then stand down. Dachi to Frigate 4 bridge assault party, are we secure?

*An affirmative came quickly over his helmet headset. More reports of secure came in from the other groups consecutively. Nick nodded in appriciation of his troop's effectiveness.*

MC: Alright. Bridge, get me shipwide.

*A momentary click signalled him being switched over.*

MC: Denizens of Frigates 3 and 4. We now hold your bridge and engine rooms. I suggest that you surrender now, or we might be forced to resort to more unpleasant measures; flushing all your atmosphere out for example. If you surrender now though, you will be treated fairly.

Brigadesman Lieutenant (On Comm): They are now laying down their weapons. Nice work commander, I figure you'll want to report this to the captain, so I'll patch you through.

MC: Thanks Sam, but I think it was definately a team effort. Captain, I'm happy to report that all vessels are now secure and in our possesion.

"Excellent, I'm going to come aboard momentarily."

*PK closed the battle view on the main screen down from the controls at his armrest, then stood to give a few last orders before departing.*

"Shut down the ADVENT, and return to lowest state of alert, then send a signal to No Dachi's ships, asking them to do the same. I want to get some repairs done before we begin our next move, so start getting engineering teams over to the disabled frigates. As many people as is neccessary, coordinate with our allies. Mr. Pierce, the bridge is yours."

*He strode purposefully out of the bridge*

*Some time later, PK stood in the engine room of one of the frigates. Several of his command crew, including Nick and John had also come to look at it.*

"Well, it certainly is a mess in here. Guess it's nothing a month or too in dry dock wouldn't fix."

EO: If we work round the clock, we could have the interior habitable in a day or two. Systems would take a bit longer, but time is the only real problem.

"Time isn't something we have a lot of. We need to be able to be under way very soon, so just get what you need to finished for them to be able to fly, then complete the rest while we're in transit. I know you'll do your best. Now, onto the subject of these engines."

EO: Well, they certainly could have been used as bombs. Very large bombs too. Probably would have taken out both the Striker Daconis and both No Dachi's ships had they set them off.

MC: I believe that they were trying, several were attempting to access control consoles when we arrived.

EO: Guess we owe you one then in that case.

"The main question is still why though. Surely there must be a purpose to this. And the advanced technology coupled with inexperiend crew, why did they do it?"

MC: I have a sneaky suspicion that the Chronians could be involved here. This looks decidedly like their work.

"Could be, could be. The ULP is also a possibility, but we can debate all we like, no answers will come. Take me to the highest ranking Youngling left alive."

MC: Aye, this way sir.

*The cells of the frigate were not a pretty place. They didn't look well maintained, and the slime that seemed to have appeared on every surface was present everywhere. The Younglings cowered behind armoured doors in rather small cells. They didn't seem to go in for shields, even internally. Nick led PK to one of the cells, and cranked the door open. Inside, a slightly older Youngling sat at a table. It didn't look MUCH older though. PK immediately walked swiftly up the table and slammed his armoured fists onto it.*

"Now, you have two choices here."

*He held up two fingers for emphasis.*

"Firstly, you can cooperate with us, tell us everything you know, then you and your crew will be allowed to leave in the escape pods. Secondly, you refuse and all the captured Younglings will have to be spaced. We can't keep you all onboard, so it's your choice how you leave. Nick, leave a brigadesman here to find out the answer, we have more important things to attend to."

*A low rank marine entered the room and saluted as the two officers left hurriedly. PK slammed the door shut behing them, and began heading towards the transporters, talking to Nick as they went.*

MC: You really going to let them go sir?

"Yes. They're no threat to us anymore, and I meant what I said; we can't keep them onboard. Besides which, it may do something for our reputation if we release them."

MC: I see your reasoning, but I wish we had a better solution.

"Unfortunately, time is against us in that respect. No Dachi has communicated a request for us to join him on a mission to destroy the rogue Admiral Sar Ai. I'm inclined to take it, as refueling and refitting come as part of the deal. Also, we now have some cash to burn, so with a bit of luck we can enhance our capabilities a little while we're at Harkun. I've also been promised an Aswana Upgrade, should prove very useful. But we need to leave as soon as possible if we're going to cathc him."

MC: Right. I'll get started on drilling the men in the most likely situations we'll face.

"We're going to leave as soon as these Frigates are back online. It shouldn't be too long."


*Some time later, the small and rather mismatched fleet jumped to lightspeed, destination; Harkun.*

[Ur_Quan]

OOC- Sorry for the delay. -OOC

No1: "Well? What are your orders, captain? Captain? CAPTAIN!"
Bogg: "Hmmm? What? Sorry, I was thinking about other things."
* No1 rolls her eyes: "Yes, we'll have time for 'you know what' later, but right now we got a situation here."
Bogg: "Actually... I wasn't thinking about that at all, but now that you mention it. I'd appreciate it if you were to drop by later on. And wear that kinky new outfit we bought for you in that cute little cornershop. You know, the one that had all those toys. What's it called again?"
No1: "The Emperor's New Groove?"
Bogg: "Yeah! That's the one! Once we get paid for this job, we can go there again and buy the more pleasurable stuff."
* No1 bit her lower lip: "Mmmmmmmm...."
* Bogg smiled: "My thoughts exactly."

No1: "So what do we do about our problem? We're being jammed by an unknown source."
Bogg: "Really? How rude. Who could possibly have any objections to some civilised communication?"
SO: "Bugs, captain... I just did some scans and there's a bug ship hidden between the debris. The surrounding shiphulls make it nearly impossible to detect."
Bogg: "What's it doing?"
SO: "Apart from jamming us? Nothing at all, Sir."
No1: "Are we within their weapons' range?"
SO: "That's difficult to tell. I'm not even sure what their armaments are."
No1: "Raise shields, go to yellow alert."
WO: "Shields raised, alert status changed to yellow."
Bogg: "How are the repairs coming along?"
No1: "They're making a lot of pregress. We've already restored our transwarp capability."
Bogg: "Good, so we no longer have the reduction in our weapons' power that was caused by the drive failure?"
No1: "Err, yes, I believe it has been mended."
Bogg: "Have commander Redbock and his scouting party left for the planet's surface yet?"
No1: "No, they're still in the airlock."
Bogg: "Good. Withdraw their current orders and tell them to help out with the repairs. Tell the damage control team that they give priority to our shields and the ship's manoeuvrability. I don't feel like taking any more hits."
No1: "Yes captain."
Bogg: "Sarah, start charging the particle cannon and keep an eye on those bugs. As soon as you see anything suspicious, let me know."
WO: "Aye, captain!"

* Bogg looked at the viewscreen that was showing Cid Killer's ship: "I wonder what our hero from Shraan is up to?"
No1: "There might be a way to find out."
Bogg: "What do you mean? We're being jammed."
No1: "Well yes, but they're only jamming our comm frequencies. What if we used something else to get a message across to the Amodyte?"
Bogg: "Such as?"
No1: "I was thinking of our scanners. If we increase the power a bit, they should be able to detect it if we scan them. We could set up a simple language protocol, converting the letters of the alphabet to combinations of long and short scanning pulses. It may take some time, but captain Killer's translation computer should be able to work out the code."
Bogg: "Very well. Laura, I want you to work on that. And comms, you will help her out."
SO and COMMS: "Yes Sir!"
Bogg: "Should you succeed, tell captain Killer to hold fire until most of the repairs have been completed, unless the bug ship actually tries anything. In that case we'll give it hell."
SO and COMMS: "Understood!"

Helm: "Captain? Why don't we just leave? We have transwarp capability and we've got the information necessary to get our mission pay. I can lay in a course and..."
* Bogg raised his hand in the air, signalling for the helm to stop talking and then he spoke: "The answer to your question is very simple. Until I receive my mysterious magical rubble from Killer, nobody isn't going nowhere.

[Lady Hawk]

MoA at the weekend

[AcidK]

*Cid stood next to the holograph being twisted around in different directions to give a full 3D veiw of the surrounding wrecks, the light carrier being somewhere on the outside. Red Alert had been going for a while, he was not going to take any chances against them.*

Cid: Kosaga! Have the orders been carried out?
No1: Yes sir, the marines are now helping with the repairs and helping the medical staff.
Cid: Good, at least we can go into battle less scarred then our last.
SO: Sir! I'm getting weird signals from the Rainbow, a lot of scanner activity, as if they are changing frequency constantly.
No1: They could be trying to find out which ship is blocking our signals.
Cid: Impossible, no-one is that daft. Leutenant Commander Reily would have noticed what was going on within seconds. It's a damned communication, I want it decoded. Record every change of frequency and send it into the translation machines, at least we can effectively understand them.
SO: Yes sir!

*Cid walked to the veiwport and looked directly towards the area where the C'raask carrier stood. After a minute or so the translation was finished.*

Cid: Bump it on the comm-screen.
SO: yes, sir.

*Cid read the transmission, and when 'hold fire' came up, he frowned... deeply.*

Cid: SO, use the translation device to recode and resend a message out to Bogg. Tell them that I shall not hold fire! If that carrier launches fighters then we would have no choice but to scarper empty handed. I will not send my crew into a suicide mission against Armidillo starfighters!