Story Arc 2- The Conspiracy

[ACH0225]

Why would you reveal yourself? This is the largest Strigiforme fleet? They have their super ship, right there? Anyways....
Also, unless they're frigging huge defense turrets, a frigates shields can take a few hits. You can't just one shot my fleet. Also, if this isn't your homeworld, then it's a major population centre or something.

"All shield cruisers, forward embankment."

A semi-circular crimson shield spread out from the shield cruisers, creating a wall between the defense platforms and the fleet.

"Have missile frigates fire bobbers(dud missiles) around the edge of the shield. Warm up te Aigaiion's energy projector."

The "mouth" of the manta-ray shaped Aigaiion began to glow crimson, with veins of black. This was a Yttrium energy projector, one of the most powerful ship-based weapons in existence. It had its own separate reactor and subsystems. It created what was essentially a semi-stable rip through several million dimensions, and the atoms it contacted were sucked through and dispersed across all of them. While it didn't have an especially large area of effect, it could seriously damage a similarly sized ship at a distant range.

"Have shield ships open a gap in the shield. Prepare all fighters and bombers for launch."

The crimson shield parted for an area a couple kilometers across, large enough for the Aigaiion to fire its energy projector and NeoRoman fusion splicers at several targets. The largest weapons platform visible, which was second largest overall, ceased to exist almost in its entirety. The amount of light emitting from the front of the ship was reduced, but not fully diminished. Meanwhile, thousands of bobbers flew around the edge of the shield, confusing point defense platforms. Strigiforme missiles didn't emit enough radioactive rays to be easily diminished between a dud and a real missile, making these missiles an effective distraction. They streamed past the platforms, going instead for the target of the location of the planet. A few missiles contacted upper atmosphere, giving the fleet a good approximation of where it was.

Another gap opened up in the shield, pointed straight at the invisible planet. The Aigaiion fired, not intending to destroy the planet in a flashy explosion. The energy projector wasn't THAT strong. Instead, it simply used its ability to bore a hole to dig straight into the planet's core. While the effects weren't immediate, soon enough the planet would be uninhabitable.

[Professor Fenway]

You seem to have extravagant amounts of GHOST spec. ops, considering the highly-trained and shielded part of the NeoRoman Army, it would seem hard to instantly kill large parts of it.

BIC:

-The NeoRoman fleet successfully bombarded and destroyed several mini-yards in orbit around several planets, giving the ground teams less heat from the endless air strikes. Shielded Superiority Fighters are mopping up any drones that attempt to attack ground forces. Science Ships in orbit are monitoring enemy tactics and adapting our own in order to combat the enemy.

--HIERARCH WAR ORDERS--

Ship Darkstar Stealth Disruptors to every fleet, the Dark Matter Shells aren't emitting the usual gravitational effect.

||ENCRYPTED MESSAGE TO: Strigiforme Empire||

We are shipping 20 Darkstar Stealth Disruptors to your empire. These are highly experimental but effective, allowing us to see their approximate locations through the interaction between Dark Energy and Dark Matter. These are in a highly secured convoy, far away from any space where Darkstar Activity has been known.
(NOTE: You can't intercept this one guys. This is guarded by the Hierarch's Personal Fleet- the toughest one, and it's stealthed)
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[DeadlyMiddie]

@Fenway Ok.

EMERGENCY FLASH TRAFFIC TO THE 3RD FLEET, ENCRYPTION LEVEL 30:
MOVE TO INTERCEPT NEOROMAN FLEET AT THE BORDER. KICK THEM INTO THE NEXT GALAXY
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EMERGENCY FLASH TRAFFIC TO THE HOME FLEET, ENCRYPTION LEVEL 30:
MOVE TO INTERCEPT STRIGIFORME FLEET. YOU HAVE PERMISSION TO CALL THE HADES ARROW IF NEED BE.
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//ABOARD THE DREADNOUGHT TOP GUN, 5TH FLEET FLAGSHIP//
Admiral: HOLT SH**!
Weapons Officer: SIR! Most of our weapons are fully operational, including the Hadron Cannons.
Admiral: Target everything on their fleet flagship. Only the GARDIAN lasers will target fighters.
Weapons Officer: YES SIR!
Admiral: Flight Officer, launch all 30 Gladiuses as well as the 3 Omaha Class frigates.
Flight Officer: Yes Sir.

All Apollo Class Dreadnoughts are armed with x6 PBWP-2 (Particle Beam With Plasma), x2 FNE-2 (Fusion Neutron Emitters), x2 S.L.R.H.B.C (Strategic Long Range Hadron Beam Cannons). All of these guns swiveled toward the NeoRoman flagship, and fired.

//ABOARD THE DREADNOUGHT IRON HAMMER, 1ST FLEET FLAGSHIP//
Admiral: Target all main weapons on the Strigiforme forces near AW-1.
Weapons Officer: Yes sir.
Admiral: Launch all fighters and frigates. Reinforce the shields on the starboard side.
Flight Officer: Aye aye sir.
Chief Engineer: Aye aye sir.
Admiral: All weapons, FIRE!

//ABOARD THE DREADNOUGHT PHANTOM VANGUARD, COMMANDING SHIP OF THE HOME FLEET//
Admiral: Launch all fighters and frigates.
Flight Officer: Yes sir.
Admiral: Tell the Hades Arrow to fire at the Strigiforme commanding ship that is heading toward Cyrania.
Comms Officer: Aye aye sir.
Admiral: All weapons, FIRE!

//ABOARD THE HADES ARROW, LOCATION CLASSIFIED//
Commanding Officer: Target locked. 3...2...1...FIRE!!
The bolt of energy streaks at the speed of light through space, and impacts the Strigiforme ship. Damage seems to be significant.

//ABOARD THE DREADNOUGHT SPIRIT OF VENGEANCE, FLAGSHIP OF THE 3RD FLEET//
Admiral: Tell the carriers to launch their fighters.
Comms Officer: Yes sir.
Sensor Officer: We'll be in range any minute.
*A fusion coil splicer hits the shield, which barely stops it*
Admiral: All fleet weapons, FIRE!!!

STATUS OF AW-1: Contested. Firing ground-to-space railguns and lasers to thwart dropships and relatively low-flying starships.
STATUS OF AW-2: Same as AW-1. The 2nd Fleet is in orbit engaging hostile ships though. It is unclear who is winning.
STATUS OF AW-3: Relatively untouched. The 1st and 5th Fleets are fighting here.

OOC: For roleplay, here are the specs for the Apollo Class dreadnoughts:

Spoiler:

Impulse Engines: x6 IIIT-1 (Immediate Ion Impulse Thrust)
Main Engines: x6 Atomic Fusion engines
Powerplant: 100 grams of antimatter in a reactor, and 1 backup fusion reactor.
Main Weapons: x6 PBWP-2 (Particle Beam With Plasma), x2 FNE-2 (Fusion Neutron Emitters), x2 S.L.R.H.B.C (supplied by Darkstar)
Secondary Weapons: x500 Turbolasers, x30 missile racks with 20 1kt nukes each, x100 40mm railguns
Anti-fighter weaponry: x300 flak guns, GARDIAN System (Supplied by Darkstar)
Fighter Capacity: x30 Gladius fighters
Armor: Titanium-80 with tungsten
Shields: Particle Shields Mk V
Shuttle Capacity: x5 Surprise Class dropships.
Stealth: ALPHA SINGULARITY Darkstar cloak
Other: x3 Omaha Class frigates (or similarly sized vessels).

[Phalanx]

Commander Alex Pearson smirked. His Vector corvette squadron had made it on stealth FTL to a NeoRoman supply convoy, right on its way to deliver parts to a NeoRoman frontier shipyard. His eight ships formed up into four groups. "Alright, groups one and two, on those three transports. All other groups, pick one of those escort frigates, but dont bite off more than you can chew. Everyone got a target? Good. We are about to come into a spot in our orbit that is ideal for a slingshot, as you can see on your navcomps, so get ready for hard acceleration." The squadron disengaged all stealth systems and opted for max speed, soon breaking free of the gravity well of the planet they were formerly orbiting. The NeoRoman frigates were caught by surprise, but a quick witted NeoRoman captain managed to destroy one of the UAC corvettes before him and his comrades were overrun by the quick corvettes and their powerful railguns, leading to their destruction. The transports proved to be no issue, and were quickly and efficiently destroyed by the crack squadron of corvettes. Commander Pearson immediately said, once the combat was over, "Engage all stealth systems! Activate EMCON! Navigation officer, plot us a course to the nearest friendly FOB! Get us out of here before those system defense pinnaces overtake us!" The squadron winked through a fold in space time, leaving behind a destroyed NeoRoman convoy. The declaration of war would be stated tomorrow.

The UAC has joined her brothers in arms against the Strigiforme and NeoRoman agressors.

The UAC is now at war with:

Strigiforme
NeoRome

[Crash Override]

You seem to have extravagant amounts of GHOST spec. ops, considering the highly-trained and shielded part of the NeoRoman Army, it would seem hard to instantly kill large parts of it.

BIC:

-The NeoRoman fleet successfully bombarded and destroyed several mini-yards in orbit around several planets, giving the ground teams less heat from the endless air strikes. Shielded Superiority Fighters are mopping up any drones that attempt to attack ground forces. Science Ships in orbit are monitoring enemy tactics and adapting our own in order to combat the enemy.

--HIERARCH WAR ORDERS--

Ship Darkstar Stealth Disruptors to every fleet, the Dark Matter Shells aren't emitting the usual gravitational effect.

||ENCRYPTED MESSAGE TO: Strigiforme Empire||

We are shipping 20 Darkstar Stealth Disruptors to your empire. These are highly experimental but effective, allowing us to see their approximate locations through the interaction between Dark Energy and Dark Matter. These are in a highly secured convoy, far away from any space where Darkstar Activity has been known.
(NOTE: You can't intercept this one guys. This is guarded by the Hierarch's Personal Fleet- the toughest one, and it's stealthed)
||END||

OOC: iM no op,calm down ^^.Also,i know how to intercept my own stealth so yeah,i will not op this.
GHOST is not a team,is the name of the training program. GHOST operatives are name of any soldier that trained in it.

=Sir! They have a giant gun!
-I know...attack with everything that we have!
*The planet was there,agonizing.The civilian population was triying to run in stealthed transports trought the back of the planet.The defense fleet was nearly destroyed,but as a last effort,they equalized their hadron cannons,shooting a hyper concentrated shoot over the fleet,cutting some ships [Frigates and small cruisers]
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Retrofitting the Stardust Fleet [Something as the King Guard] with the new ZETA=SINGULARITY
ooc: This you dont have a stealth disruptor for these.Your disruptor function but its more limited to near approximation not exactly location.
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[ACH0225]

"Commander, a Orion fleet has entered the system. We are outnumbered, but roughly equal in strength."

"Contact FLEETCOM. Tell them I wish to use the HEMLOCK contingency. Order shield cruisers into enclosure formation."

All the ships bundled up together, then the shield cruisers formed a sphere covering the fleet. They couldn't jump away, but were also effectively invincible.

That was what they were going for.

In the Cuuyth system, the Barrage Cannon was near enough to completion that it could fire, though it would slow the construction for a little while. The cannon charged, its eight arms glowing crimson on their inside. It spat out 5 guided, powerful torpedoes. These torpedoes didn't carry a payload, but instead a powerful new shield generator, which could invert kinetic energy into shield size. In a combat situation, this shield was fairly useless, but when firing it at barely sub light speeds through jump space? It could destroy groups of ships. The torpedoes worked by coming into the system near their target, exiting their FTL jump, then slamming at almost .8 of c(80%) into their target. The shield created from the impact could be anywhere from 26 km in circumference to 2 km in circumference. They had some of the best targeting devices money could buy, and had extremely powerful steering jets. Now that the Strigiforme were enclosed in their shield, they could wait out the oncoming storm.

[ACH0225]

//ABOARD THE HADES ARROW, LOCATION CLASSIFIED//
Commanding Officer: Target locked. 3...2...1...FIRE!!
The bolt of energy streaks at the speed of light through space, and impacts the Strigiforme ship. Damage seems to be significant.

This is the multi-trillion K'lii supership. It has an incredibly strong shield, probably capable of blocking a large asteroid. While I can imagine this going some damage, the ship is designed to go toe to toe with other super ships. Also, speed of light isn't especially fast over interstellar distances.

[Chairman_Tiel]

Internal Affairs

The 4th Fleet has finished construction and are engaging in testing maneuvers. In addition, the top secret government endorsed project,the 'Endurance Command', has reached completion - a massive warp-capable construct presumed to be a superweapon of some nature accompanied by a whopping 3 hastily constructed Sovereignty class dreadnoughts equipped with axial lasers and a large contingent of Excelsior cruisers for fire support. As the task force was unveiled for the public in orbit of Cayla, it is suspected that other nations may be aware of this new development; the Protectorate's espionage-reducing xenophobia notwithstanding.

End Report--

OOC:

Secondary Weapons: x500 Turbolasers, x30 missile racks with 20 1kt nukes each, x100 40mm railguns

wat.

I'm probably just going to stay out of this, then. May have screwed myself by making my faction balanced.

[Professor Fenway]

The UAC is going to have problems attacking NeoRome from a still-crippled quantum gate from another galaxy. Lets say it was repaired over time.

BIC-

The 12th Defense Fleet, a very tough one, warped to the quantum gate. They had repaired the minor damages over time, but that had turned out to be a mistake. No enemy forces were present at the moment.

General Ajax ordered the dreadnought Pixel to fire. The Shield was brought down. The rest of the fleet began firing on the Quantum Gate, completely decimating the central reactors and gravity control units. The fleet jumped away as it began collapsing into the black hole.

-ELSEWHERE-

"Sir, they fired on civilian ships!"

"They will pay..."

-HIERARCH WAR DESK-
A contested frontier system has been won from the OC fleet.

The invading waves are being pushed back, as the enemy teams has lost their stealth advantage for the moment.

Shields are being configured to directly counter damage from Hadron Cannons, which have caused massive losses on unsuspecting fleets.

[DeadlyMiddie]

OOC: Which planet did you take? If it was AW-1, then that's ok. But if it was 2 or 3, please realize that there are fleets orbiting those planets.

BIC:
//ABOARD THE DREADNOUGHT PHANTOM VANGUARD//
Admiral: All ships, hit the Strigiforme flagship with EVERYTHING except anti-fighter lasers. All ships are also ordered to spread out. FIRE!

EMERGENCY FLASH TRAFFIC TO ALL FLEETS:
SPREAD YOUR SHIPS OUT. STRIGIFORME MISSILES INBOUND.
END

Internal Affairs: The 1st, 2nd, and 5th Fleets have retreated from the assaulted planets after extracting the ground troops. Confederation Marines may be some of the best ground warriors, but being bombarded by a fleet isn't fun. The 3 fleets are going to regroup and hit the NeoRoman Fleet as a cohesive force.

The Hades Arrow fired again, targeting he same ship. This was its last shot for the next 4 hours.

[Vinyl]

<<Internal Affairs>>

Research is being put in to new armors to replace the current titanium-ceramic ones. Materials with high melting temperatures are currently in testing, among them are Niobium and Tungsten.
Army recruitment rates have increased by 3%, navy 7%, marines 1%, and air force 4%.
Training methods have been expanded to include:
-Long-term survival in extreme environments
-Additional general training for mechanized forces
-Additional medical training

<<End>>

[Phalanx]

The UAC is going to have problems attacking NeoRome from a still-crippled quantum gate from another galaxy. Lets say it was repaired over time.

BIC-

The 12th Defense Fleet, a very tough one, warped to the quantum gate. They had repaired the minor damages over time, but that had turned out to be a mistake. No enemy forces were present at the moment.

General Ajax ordered the dreadnought Pixel to fire. The Shield was brought down. The rest of the fleet began firing on the Quantum Gate, completely decimating the central reactors and gravity control units. The fleet jumped away as it began collapsing into the black hole.

-ELSEWHERE-

"Sir, they fired on civilian ships!"

"They will pay..."

-HIERARCH WAR DESK-
A contested frontier system has been won from the OC fleet.

The invading waves are being pushed back, as the enemy teams has lost their stealth advantage for the moment.

Shields are being configured to directly counter damage from Hadron Cannons, which have caused massive losses on unsuspecting fleets.

OFF:
Seriously? As if I would leave the gate unguarded. That is just OP. At worst, I would keep a dozen battlecruisers, 15, cruisers, and at least 20 frigates. That is an asset of huge enormity, of course I would leave it guarded!! Or would you like me to spawn in five hundred dreadnoughts (I know im exaggerating) and have them all attack your homeworld and blow it to flaming atoms.

BACK:
All milky way UAC assets have placed themselves at the command of JOINTOPS UGC commanders.

[ACH0225]

OOC: Which planet did you take? If it was AW-1, then that's ok. But if it was 2 or 3, please realize that there are fleets orbiting those planets.

BIC:
//ABOARD THE DREADNOUGHT PHANTOM VANGUARD//
Admiral: All ships, hit the Strigiforme flagship with EVERYTHING except anti-fighter lasers. All ships are also ordered to spread out. FIRE!

EMERGENCY FLASH TRAFFIC TO ALL FLEETS:
SPREAD YOUR SHIPS OUT. STRIGIFORME MISSILES INBOUND.
END

Internal Affairs: The 1st, 2nd, and 5th Fleets have retreated from the assaulted planets after extracting the ground troops. Confederation Marines may be some of the best ground warriors, but being bombarded by a fleet isn't fun. The 3 fleets are going to regroup and hit the NeoRoman Fleet as a cohesive force.

The Hades Arrow fired again, targeting he same ship. This was its last shot for the next 4 hours.

Read earlier post. Ship is in giant super invinca-shield. Shot bounces off comically.

[DeadlyMiddie]

OOC: Ah, it was those ships? No matter, my ships are spread out, and you can't fire through invinca-shield. (Say line with Indiana Jones style bravado)

[Crash Override]

-ALL FLEETS,DISENGAGE-

* the civilian refugees,running in stealth to the near system.What left was a planet with a hole in the middle,a fleet of enemy ships and some ships behind [Mainly Hit and Run frigates [Scarlet class] with JAVELIN torpedos. What was there of the fleet was fighting bravely,some ships went kamikaze on the shield group *
OOC: Its hard to make a special shield to the Hadron cannon,because itself was made to bypass shields as a phase weapon.
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The Backwater systems are now preparing a defense,hidden in stealth and constructing heavy turret defenses and orbital stations.
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ACTIVATING NANO=CORE DISRUPTOR.
*A massive defense shield is created around the fleeing fleet,made of a massive nanoswarm.The necessary time to jump out of there*

Spoiler:

is capable of producing an impact shield that manifests as a cloud of nanomachines surrounding the hull of the unit. When even a moderate-intensity energy field is applied to the nano-relays, an energy web forms, which can effectively lessen the impact of ballistics on the hull. The downside, of course, is that the field takes both power and nanomachine resources required to operate the main hadron cannon, rendering the ships unable to fire while the field was activated. In addition, the powerful energy field degrades the nano-relays over time, limiting the protection to short bursts to avoid complete collapse of the nanomachine system.

Defense for the run,of course.The other ships flee with the civilian fleet. What was left was a small taskforce of frigates and automatic orbital defenses
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