Space E-war

[dinoman666]

"Well, if these drones are disguised as asteroids that will somehow trick the organic sensors of the Vong," said Grievous thoughtfully, "they might take them aboard, thinking they can be used as ammo."

[Anaclagon]

"There's still plenty of Vong Ships, I'm pretty sure when things start looking bad, they'll figure something out.... For all we know however, they are already on their way here" Revan stated. The Vong swift attacks were unpredictable and while the Vardian plan sounded good...it wouldnt win the war for them.

[Doc 42]

A Tortoise siege ship watched the Vong carefully as they settled above Trandosha... It was the same drone which had attacked and locked the planet down in the past. It observed the strange organic fleet through long range telescopes and other sensors, keeping a safe distance for the time being, taking cover in an un-named solar system. Their numbers were impressive, but the AI needed a better look.

It loaded a Hyperspace pod into the launcher on its bow, containing a number of Variant-S scout Sentinels and an Ambassador droid all inside a dropship. A Sentinel-B was mixed in with them, just in case. The pod suddenly rocketed out of the launcher, its hyperspace engine propelling it forward towards the Vong.

The Tortoise used its clearwave transmitter to mimic a radio signal on the open channel, assuming the aliens used radio, or at least could pick it up
"Ambassador on behalf of Areta inbound. Please except our greeting."

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The Vong didn't reply. Tsavong Lah, despite receiving the message, never planned on dealing with anyone other than another Vong. The nearest ships instead keeping their weapons ready in case the incoming pod was a major threat...

"I say we go through with the plan, at least to slow them down," said Grievous. Sun Fac and Ivpikkis agreed as well, and the cyborg crossed his arms. "What about you, Revan? It's the only shot we've got. You haven't come up with anything useful so far."

[Doc 42]

As it neared the fleet, the pod's engines cut out and it dropped from Hyperspace. It split apart slowly, the dropship using its own engines to propel it the rest of the way.

The message continued to broadcast, another one being added in
"Please acknowledge."

The Tortoise wondered if they could receive the message. They seemed advanced enough to understand the universal language...

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The Vong replied with one sentence: "Death to technology." The ships immediately fired on the incoming pod now that it had slowed down. Hails of plasma tumbled through space towards the seemingly defenseless pod...

[Doc 42]

The Dropship's rear sensors watched as the hyperspace pod was riddled with plasma, a few of the external panels being torn off and melted in half. Then a shot pierced its engine and the craft detonated, the explosion flinging shrapnel past the dropship.

The frightened craft immediately messaged the Tortoise "Incoming enemy fire. Destruction imminent."

The Tortoise messaged back "Unleash your payload and sustain perfect link. Record maximum data till point of destruction for use later. Your failure is justified by higher order."

The Dropship replied simply "Crap."

The ship immediately opened its cargo bay, the 3 Sentinels dropping out of it, engines activating. It fired its payload of rockets out towards the nearest Vong ship, not expecting much. They were meant for clearing landing zones, not attacking ships. The Sentinels spread out in a fan, trying to get as close to the organic ships as possible....

Meanwhile, Ark'aran had been alerted to what was going on, the Mind observing the proceeding through the Tortoise's sensors.

[Anaclagon]

The Empress of the Galactic Empire smiled lightly as if almost teasing Revan in a way as Revan looked at her. With pretty much all the attention him, The Sith Lord lowered his head as it shook lightly. The armored man then proceeded to look up at the others, majority rules. "Alright, go ahead, I'm not going to stop you...I have my doubts but considering my plan is useless, I'm going to be interested on how this fans out" Revan simply responded.

[dinoman666]

The missiles were destroyed harmlessly by the dovin basals on the nearest Vong ships, which continued firing on the Sentinels, planning to drown them in a torrent of molten rock...

[Doc 42]

OOC: When rockets get crushed, they explode, not dissipate

The variant-B Sentinel was quickly destroyed, not being designed for space combat. The Variant-S's stood a better chance of survival. At this range, they could dodge most of the enemy fire just by constantly moving... The dropship recorded the black holes appearing and consuming each rocket, dark spots appearing infront of the ship, swallowing even light...

One of the Variant-S sentinels launched a strange oval missile at the alien craft, the missile's tail glowing brightly...

[dinoman666]

OOC: As long as it gets the point across.

A large group of Coralskippers flew towards the Sentinels behind the plasma fire, and one's dovin basal sucked the missile into the miniature black hole's confines...

Grievous nodded. "Very well. Serephir, we're going to go through with your plan. It's the only one we've got left, unfortunately. Do you have enough drones to at least cause some major destruction amongst the Vong ranks? The more ships dead, the better of a chance we have when we attack again."

[Doc 42]

A wealth of information flooded back to the Sentinel as the missile disappeared, which it then transmitted back to the Tortoise. The missile had actually been a probe and told them a lot about what had caused its destruction.

The Dropship's shield fell, a plasma bolt striking through it and ripping through its side, molten metal being blasted away. It quickly realigned the shield, guarding its front with all the nano-bots it had left, its defence guns firing clusters of small guided rockets at the Coral skippers....

The Tortoise surveyed the carnage with interest, receiving messages from the Longbows "Weapons loaded. Ready to fire test shot."
The Tortoise replied back "Fire in 5."

The Longbow, which was a good deal ahead of the others, targeted one of the Vong ships, a large one, probably a battleship. It was out of the enemies' effective range, in that it would have time to dodge anything that was fired at it, and it was moving in an irregular pattern to begin with.

The Longbow's long range cannons all fired one after another, 4 plasma shells cascading through space towards the vong ship....

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Some of the Coralskippers were destroyed, but some absorbed the rockets aimed at them, and they fired full-force on the Dropship, stream of molten plasma slamming against the ship's shields. The targeted Vong ship moved away from the shots, not bothering to use its dovin basals on the plasma shells.

[Doc 42]

OOC: I'm assuming the Dovin Basals wouldn't have been ready to block the shots. If not, I'll edit. Just pm me.


The plasma shells curled slowly towards the Vong ship, their inbuilt guidance capable of making slight adjustments. 2 of them slammed into the ships hull, penetrating into its armour before exploding outward and blowing massive showers of flaming shards away, the other 2 hadn't been able to turn enough, instead flying deeper into the fleet and targeting a different ship...

The dropship's shields fell, the plasma smashing into its armour and slicing it apart, one of the streams penetrated into its reactor, and the ship's hull exploded outwards, leaving only the ships head tumbling along in flames, the cargo hold having been completely decimated...

[dinoman666]

The damaged ship tumbled away, slowly dying, but managed to move away from the rest of the fleet to prevent more damage. The second ship simply absorbed the final two plasma shells, and a portion of the fleet began moving forward, towards the origin of the shells.

[Doc 42]

The Tortoise commented to Ark'aran, analysing what it could see "Well thats interesting. It seems their shields aren't constant." Ark'aran replied back "Yes... hide a few ships planetside and then retreat. We may have them out ranged but we do not know the extent of their close range weapons yet. Send one of your JR-10's in supported by a Longbow. Lets see what they've got."

The Tortoise carried out the orders instantly, the Arachnid, a Jr-10 and 1 of the remaining long bows broke away from the scattered fleet, heading further into the solar system to take cover. The Jr-10 and Arachnid went planetside, while the Longbow left an observation drone behind and dived into the sun's outter layer, taking cover there. The Tortoise sent another Jr-10 off towards the approaching alien fleet and then retreated with the last Jr 10 and Longbow...

It sent another message to Ark'aran "Policy on dealing with the TGDA, if they show up to reclaim their planet?"
Ark'aran summurised the policy simply; "Blow the crap out of them."

The Long Bow aimed its next rack of cannons at the approaching fleet, giving the first 4 time to cool down and reload. One by one, each cannon fired, the force of the recoil needing to be countered by a pulse of the ship's engines after each shot. The 4 shells thundered along in a square, each marked with 4 different targets, though they weren't aimed at them yet, they were delaying, and would only change course at the last moment to maximise the chance of a suprise hit. If they missed, chances are they could seek out another enemy ship anyway....

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The fleet launched a volley of plasma at the incoming shells, dovin basals at the ready incase the plasma shells managed to get past that. Some of the ships broke away from the main group, intending to outflank the Longbow, firing their plasma cannons at the ship's side...

[Doc 42]

The Longbow detected the incoming shots and immediately changed course, tracking each shot's trajectory to make sure it was in the clear, for now, it would be fine, but once the aliens got closer, dodging would become much more difficult...

The shell's shields protected them to some extent, but one of them took too many hits and exploded, the blast knocking the other 3 off course. They quickly changed course, locking onto their targets early to compensate for the explosion....

The Jr-10 swerved to the side, trying to counter flank the enemy flanking force and attack them from behind....

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Two Miid Ro'ik warships split off from the flanking force, streaking towards the JR-10 and firing on it with their numerous plasma cannons. The Vong ships activated their dovin basals, the proximity of the black holes making it nearly impossible for the shells to swerve out of the way, if they could. The Vong continued to fire on the Longbow, keeping it from firing while it was dodging...

[Doc 42]

Not one of the shells hit, each being crushed. The Longbow fired a volly of missiles out of the silo's on its stern, being the only weapons it could accurately fire while dodging. It did its best to move away from the fleet, trying to avoid being surrounded, a number of plasma bolts coming close to its hull before being blocked by its nano shield.

The Jr-10 spotted the two warships breaking off from the rest of the flanking force. It locked onto one with its auto cannon and opened fire, firing a long chain of unguided shells. At this range, they didn't need guidance and the space between each shot ensured that the two of them wouldn't be sucked in by the one black hole. Simultaneously, it loaded up a ring of cluster missiles within each silo, preparing to launch them. The Jr-10's small profile would give it the advantage in evasionary tactics, unless the aliens had quicker, as of yet unseen weaponry.