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Post by Admin on Aug 20, 2015 19:43:45 GMT -6
The RWN Free Peasant and the Asteron Indomitable had been sent to survey the Hive Unity's system and determine the feasibility of a counterattack. But the Queens of Unity had other plans. Sensibly, they had set their warship to lurk near the wormhole and watch for attacking enemies. The strange, living ship of chitin had been waiting for some time, constantly being resupplied by courier vessels from the Hive Homeworld. When the two ships exited the wormhole it was ready, and leaped to the attack.
Thanks to its position, the Hive ship managed to be very close when the enemy ships arrived, at a range where even its point-defense guns could be used as makeshift anti-ship weapons. At these ranges the heavily armed Hive ship could be a mortal threat to the other two lighter vessels. It was be a swift fight with high stakes and no cover. The only way out was back through the wormhole or the long, exposed flight to the inner system.
--------------------------------- ORDER OF BATTLE Hive Unity RWU Union of Asteron Modmark
Hive Unity Commander: Generic Captain Vex'Chil'Rav (Destroyer)
RWU Commander: Generic Captain RWN Free Peasant (Destroyer)
Union of Asteron Commander: Generic Captain Indomitable (Destroyer)
NOTES Battle begins at range I. There are no asteroids, planets, or other stellar bodies that could provide cover
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Post by dragonlord7012 on Aug 22, 2015 21:47:33 GMT -6
Drifts-Through-Eternal-Evening floated throughout the inky abyss as the small ones lurked, crawled, and swam about its insides, too large for its own organs to coordinate its own life process without their constant upkeep, it felt them flow through its body, sustaining its own life, as it in return sustained them.
Never before had such an abundance been found among the Unity, strife and conflict consuming them before their creation.
Drifts-Through-Eternal-Evening was the first to be birthed in its name only.
The first of its kind within the Unity. Born for only the unity, and no other.
The drones within it adapter just for its being.
It was humbled.
Its thousands eyes twitched, and plasma stomached compressed around its vacuum hardened carapace as it flexed its mind to pushed itself through the blackness of the empty pit of nothiness. Lazying behind and below the pinprick vortex.
It stretched its many senses out, feeling for the light, and radiation, and heat and everything between and beyond for the Beings-Of-Hungers-Nightmare.
The Nightmare had filtered through the hives of the Unity, as It-That-Eternally-Hungers sent its last known contact.
The pinprick twisted.
The Drifter began to flex, dozens of plasma sacs pushed to near critical and ready for ejection, as the wormhole began to expand.
It awoke the hundreds of drones that slept in its main armament, Driving them to ready with fear and fanaticism, as they would make their one and final sacrifice.
Great unnatural shapes ejected themselves out the the tear, away from it.
Their shape was unnatural. Cold colorless carapaces of steel and wiring wrapped them in hard edges. Their tails spat out pillars fire and energy to move them forward.
The Nightmare was here.
It fired.
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-Vessel designated Vex'Chil'Rav (Drifts-Through-Eternal-Evening, DTEE) fires upon enemy vessels the moment they emerge in an ambush attack.
-All Point Defenses fire upon the RWU ship, targeting their engines.
-Missiles fire upon the Union of Asteron targeting weapon systems.
-Ship continues to fire, and takes evasive action.
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Post by killer spork on Aug 23, 2015 17:49:27 GMT -6
Klaxons screamed, men scampered across metal decks, and the bridge of the UAN Indomitable was bathed in a blood red glow as she switched to emergency lighting. All unnecessary power was being cut and diverted to the Indomitable’s shields to as she prepared to sustain the blow from the Hive vessel.
‘’ Brace for impact! ‘’ Lieutenant Utani cried, the ships engines roaring as she took evasive action to avoid the swarm of missiles that were charging towards her. While the Indomitable lacked the sheer firepower of the Hive ship, she more than outclassed her in terms of speed and armor. The void shields around the ship were crackling and buzzing as they absorbed the first detonations, sending tremors racing throughout the deck.
‘’ C> Put a request into the Free Peasant, I want her point defenses being used to shoot down those missiles that are targeting us. ‘’ Commander Trask snarled.
‘’ UTANI! Why do I not have a firing solution yet!? ‘’ Trask barked at his XO whom was furiously bent over the console of the weapons officer.
‘’ We have a target lock! ‘’
The Hive vessel had made a critical error in judgment, instead of focusing on one ship; she had instead split her fire between the Free Peasant and Indomitable. The point defenses that could’ve been used to shoot down his torpedoes were instead being used to hammer the RWU vessel. Now was the time to exploit the gap in her defenses.
‘’ TORPEDO IS AWAY! ‘’
Trask’s eyes were glued to the auspex as the Indomitable’s torpedo raced towards its target, the limited range would mean that the enemy ship would only have a small time to react.
SUMMARY;
-- The UAN Indomitable diverts power to its shields and attempts to outmaneuver the missiles.
-- A request is put to the Free Peasant to open fire with her point defenses on the enemy missile swarm.
-- Taking advantage of the lack of enemy point defenses, a torpedo is launched at the Hive ship.
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Post by RWU on Aug 24, 2015 21:22:46 GMT -6
Everyone had been ordered to battle-stations before making the jump to the Hive System, but no one had actually expected the enemy to be right there. The experience was both jarring and surreal. For the crew of former pirates and smugglers, instincts moved faster than words. The designated captain, a middle-aged Kwazan man sitting at the center of the bridge, hardly managed an "All weapons - " before the point defenses were emptying their auto-cannon magazines at enemy missiles, or before the main guns had locked on to whatever section of the bug "vessel" they could target quickest.
Tens of thousands of cannon rounds sprayed into the empty void, forming a finely-targeted barrier in-between the enemy missiles and the Indomitable. Moments later, they were joined by invisible but brutally hot beams of light, aimed to sear whatever that thing was into oblivion.
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SUMMARY:
-- The RWN Free Peasant directs its point defenses to thinning out the enemy missile swarm headed towards the Indomitable.
-- 2x Beam Cannons fire at the enemy destroyer. No particular targeting priority, just trying to hit the enemy.
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Post by Admin on Aug 25, 2015 10:55:35 GMT -6
Modmark
The Indomitable and Drifts-Through-Eternal-Evening began the battle by exchanging missiles. Drifts released a great volley of small, vicious creatures that curved, shifted and ducked through space as they streaked towards the enemy ship. The Indomitable launched only a few larger, smarter and significantly more powerful missiles that honed in on the organic ship like sharks toward a foolish surfer. The swarm of smaller missiles would undoubtedly have destroyed the Asteron ship, had not the Free Peasant dove in, using its point defense to shoot several of the malicious creatures out of space before they slammed into their ally's side and exploded with deceptively vicious blasts. As it was, the Indomitable lived up to its name: its shielding kept the ship operational, but the generator was so strained by the effort that it burnt out.
The RWU Free Peasant paid for its heroics with its own life. Drift's point-defense tore through the destroyer, shredding its unprotected hull with glee. There was no grand explosion or massive hole, but the attack so mauled the Peasant that its engines were thoroughly shredded and much of the ship's crew and interior destroyed. The husk of the ship was no longer operational, and would have to be scrapped or abandoned.
Drifts-Through-Eternal-Evening did not survive the retaliatory fire. The Indomitable's missiles tore through its point-defense guns, leaving it helpless as the Free Peasant's laser fire cut through its chitin like butter. The ship was swiftly dissected, leaving a floating husk of chitin, guts and blood.
---------------------------- SUMMARY RWU/Asteron Pyrrhic Victory RWU Free Peasant Destroyed Indomitable shield generator damaged Drifts-Through-Eternal-Evening destroyed RWU must either abandon the Free Peasant where it is and have the crew take up passage on the Indomitable (Ship lost), or have the ship be towed back by the Indomitable and hope they can maintain basic systems until they return (ship can be partially salvaged, but the exploration mission is a failure).
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