Space E-war

[dinoman666]

OOC: By the way, a Vong capital ship doesn't produce one black hole. It can produce dozens, albeit small ones, depending on the size. They'll effectively cover the entire ship like a shield.

The auto cannon's shots had little effect on the thick coral shell on the warships, and in some places they were completely deflected by the glossy black stripes of extra-hard coral, made as a backup defense specifically for the Miid Ro'ik warships, which were made for particularly heavy combat. The thick streams of plasma also blocked much of the incoming fire, as well as creating a lethal wall of molten rock that even small ships would have to avoid...

[Doc 42]

OOC: Yeah, I guessed that. But by hitting it in multiple places you make sure that 2 shots aren't eaten by the 1 black hole.

The Jr-10 fired one of its proton rifles, the blue bolt rocketing forward and exploding off the ship's hull, blowing off a small spray of debris. It then launched a shot from its GPC, the ball of gamma rays and plasma swirling towards the enemy warship like a comet.

It re-directed the aim of its autocannon, aiming for the strange magma turrets along the ship's hull

[dinoman666]

The plasma cannons of the warships, hidden in trenches in the ship's hull, were mostly protected from the autocannons, and the ships continued their pursuit, firing constantly on the JR-10. One dove down beneath the ship, dodging the GPC shot, firing at the smaller craft from below...

[Doc 42]

The JR-10 pulsed its engines, winding around the enemy cruiser until it was blocking the other ship's view, using it as shield. Firing in pairs, its silos unleashed the payload they had loaded up, missiles hammering into the warship's armour, pock marking its side in explosions. Many of the missiles were targeted at the magma cannons, blowing up many of them. The Jr-10's shields were holding, but it wouldn't be able to survive a turret fight. It had to fight intelligently. It fired its other proton rifle, the blue bolt striking forward and piercing deep into the shell before exploding, blowing out a plume of coral shards....

Finally, it opened its drone hives, sending out a small wave of sentinels backed up by a wing of OWL gunships. Using the volley of missiles as cover, the drones rocketed towards the organic ships hull...

The Longbow pulsed a few of its stabilisers, the large ship spinning around, its momentum still carrying it backwards, as it faced its pursuers, it fired another volley of shells before continuing its spin around and continuing its retreat, the shells spreading out before locking onto the same enemy ship, plunging towards it from different directions....

[dinoman666]

The warship, literally covered in plasma cannons, fired on the incoming Sentinels, planning to blow them to piece with a wave of magma. One rock slammed into the JR-10 while it was preoccupied with opening a hole in the ship's hull, sending the small ship tumbling away. The ship's dovin basals absorbed the Longbow's plasma shells, and the rest of the attack force pursued it, leaving the two Miid Ro'iks to deal with the Jr-10...

[Doc 42]

OOC: The nano shield is in place constantly, when a projectile comes too close it solidifies to block it. You can't fire through it.

The molten rock slammed against the nano shield, nano bots flooding towards it to replace their brothers as they were destroyed, eventually deflecting the projectile.

The Jr-10, realising that the only thing protecting the organic ship was its shell, launched two cruise missiles armed with seismic charges, the missiles curling around and slamming into alien warship in two different parts, burrowing into its hull before ejecting the warhead forward, allowing it to dig even deeper... Both charges detonated one after the other, two blue shockwaves tearing through the ship, perpendicular to the hull. The waves blasted out through the edges of the coral, the full force of the charge poured into a single 2 dimensional shockwave designed to try slice ship's in half. 2 long fissures were torn into the coral, quickly spreading around the outside of the ship as the shockwave tried to tear its way free... With luck, it would have enough force to completely cleave the ship in half, as it was, it had left a brutal gash in its armour...

[dinoman666]

The ship, now beginning to die, flew at the JR-10, its massive size capable of crushing the smaller craft. The front side was torn away from the rest, coming at the JR-10 even faster...

[Doc 42]

The Jr-10 flipped around, suprised and accelerated away from the alien craft, flying at an angle in hopes that the enemy ship would break up while trying to match its turn...

[dinoman666]

In its death throes, the warship fired off its plasma cannons closest to the JR-10, smashing it with more of the molten projectiles. The rear end of the ship tumbled into the path of the smaller craft as well, though it was already dead, and was simply drifting...

[The Kingpin]

"I have enough per ship to wipe out at least a third of the Vong Fleet, judging by what sensor information told me of their number. the issue is, getting them on board. i think we have an alternative launching ability which would truely make them appear to be small asteroids, so that if they check the solidity they'd have seeming proof. the droids will be able to get to every corner of the enemy ships from there, regardless of what's there. in the event that they get irretrievably damaged, they'll become inactive until the others of it's type reach their designated positions. then they'll detonate together" said Serephir...

[dinoman666]

"Alright, start with that plan, then," replied Grievous. "Try to make sure they know we're not the ones responsible, so they won't try to look for us."

[Doc 42]

The Jr-10 was blasted away by the plasma shots, its shield desperately trying to block them all off. The kinetic energy of the shots sent the Jr-10 off course slightly, the other side of the shield scraping against the rest of the warship's remains, the shield bursting a violent red as it pushed back against the mass of coral. The Jr-10 broke away from the wreckage, having survived, though its shield was damaged severely. It wouldn't be able to take much more direct shots or collisions. If its shield went down, then its chance of surviving was completely gone. Its generator was replacing the destroyed nano bots by building more using the Jr-10s matter storage, unfortunately, it was relatively slow work.

There was still the other warship to fight.

"Tr-76, Tortoise, reinforcements are inbound. Stop the aliens in the ambush sector. Long range ordnance strike currently underway."

The Seige ship replied
"Of course, Ark'aran."

Ark'aran viewed the proceedings through a hundred different pair of sensors, thoughtfully mulling over what was likely to happen... He wanted to see how the Swarm performed in a large scale battle, now was his chance. Cere'kan was damaged and they still didn't know the extent of the damage to the Cypher. Really, it should have been Cere'kan watching over this, but he didn't trust the hive mind. At least, not until the euphoria of having destroyed Maricas had washed off.

The 1000 ship strong fleet from the Steel Grave rocketed towards the strange new aliens, still out of sensor range. Numerous flashes erupted out of the swarm of metal, the Long Bow's and Ambushers firing off their cannons. In a few parts, the Ambusher's were landed ontop of the larger artillery ships, firing like turrets. All over the fleet, energy signals went off the charts, the drones going weapons hot, ready for battle.

Back in the immediate battlezone, the tortoise and its 2 escorts came to a stop, releasing turrets and choosing targets. The other Long Bow was still far away, fleeing from the alien fleet, firing at it sparodicly. It seemed the first wave had been a fluke shot. Not one shell had hit since. The Tortoise ordered everyone to switch to cluster weapons, the spread of the shots would ensure maximum shield damage....

[dinoman666]

The Vong fleet's detachment focused on the new arrivals, turning their fire on the Tortoise and its escorts instead of the fleeing Longbow.

The second warship continued brutally attacking the JR-10, more than ready to rip it to pieces with ease...

Off in the distance from the battle, a relatively small, disc-shaped craft, with glowing red photoreceptors clustered at its front, watched. A crosshair constantly moved about across the machine's screen, eagerly gathering information that streamed in in bulk. Greedily taking in every scrap of data it could collect from the fight, the drone simultaneously sent the information back to its home planet...

[TyrannoTitan]

A low thud sounded above the disc shaped craft, almost organic-like tendrils pulling at its surface. The spy drone anchored itself to the craft's top, using a small yet precise laser to drill into the craft's surface, pulling cut metal off with its tentacles, magnetically attached to the craft with its treads. The spy drone continued its attempt to burrow into the craft, wanting to sabotage it for intruding on its 'territory'...

[dinoman666]

A hatch opened in the top of the drone, a small cannon coming out, which fired a single powerful plasma shell. The explosion knocked the disc-shaped machine tumbling away, surprisingly durable despite its appearance, but it succeeded in dislodging the spy drone, which had been perched right above the weapon, possibly destroying the thing as well...

[TyrannoTitan]

The spy drone's weak shielding managed to save it from the attack, tendrils mangled, while some parts of its body sparked. The machine, still magnetically attached to the disc craft, aimed its laser at the cannon, the beam cutting the part of the weapon that attached the cannon to its owner, pulling one metal panel out before digging into the craft, trying to push itself into the hole it made, in an attempt to hide itself from another attack, as it no longer had a shield. The spy drone began pulling out anything it could reach with its surviving tendrils...

[dinoman666]

A small, taser-like device, hiding within the drone's innards, jabbed the spy drone, shocking it and slowly pushing it back out of the machine's hull. The disc-shaped craft, meanwhile, prepared a possible self-destruct sequence, in case the spy drone got dangerously close to its memory banks...

[TyrannoTitan]

The spy drone retracted back, evading the taser device as best it could, even though it had a similar function. Pulling out its own taser, the machine began jabbing at the enemy's taser, zapping its 'arm' in an attempt to cut off the device completely, once again forcing itself into the craft...

[dinoman666]

The taser retracted, but kept up its guard. The spy drone wouldn't be able to get much closer without a debilitating shock. The disc-like drone began doing a high-speed barrel-roll, jinking randomly left and right, in an attempt to dislodge the parasitic machine...

[Doc 42]

OOC: The swarm is REALLLLY Far away, like, over 12 parasecs far away. They fired a volley of shells before hand towards the battle area. The only change to the immediate forces is that the Tortoise and its two escorts stopped, they are a about 1 million kilometres from the Jr-10 and longbow, which are then maybe a quarter of a parasec away from Geonosis and Trandosha (which are in the same system, IIRC)

The Jr-10 stayed behind the carcass of the first ship, using it as a shield to block the incoming projectiles. It sent a scout out, which clung onto the top of the destroyed ship and began relaying target information about the 2nd one. Using the information, the Jr-10 launched a volley of missiles over the wreckage and into the 2nd ship, again, aimed at the cannons, each missile powerful enough to penetrate into the coral and blow out a sizeable crater to ensure that the targeted gun was destroyed. The missiles flew quite quickly and it would be difficult to shoot them down.