Story Arc 2- The Conspiracy

[Professor Fenway]

"Sir! We're detecting massive energy spikes from the planet!" This member, High Executor Akarash, looked at the sensor operator.

"What are they doing?" He asked.

"The readings correspond to multiple high-yield warheads!"

"So they're detonating everything?" He looked at the screen. "Keep on course for Anstrilia, keeping a sizeable distance from every station there. No damage from them will be accrued." At that moment, several laser shots began impacting the shields. Akarash checked the source. Darkstar. They couldn't penetrate the Aurora's shields, but the rest of the fleet, though hidden, was at risk. "Boost power to shields for all ships. Boost the range of our weaponry and prepare to fire back on the enemy fleet."

"Won't we have to decloak to do that?"

"Nonsense, these stealth systems are designed to hold it even with weapons fire." Several turrets swiveled on the ships and began firing back at the long-range ships.

||MESSAGE TO: Taln Protectorate||

We are willing to exchange it for another tech we need. Darkstar's Hadron weapons are proving to be a problem that we can't work around, though they haven't used them nearly as much anymore. If you can supply a fully functional device able to completely disrupt or stop these Hadron weapons, we would be willing to trade.
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[Crash Override]

"Sir! We're detecting massive energy spikes from the planet!" This member, High Executor Akarash, looked at the sensor operator.

"What are they doing?" He asked.

"The readings correspond to multiple high-yield warheads!"

"So they're detonating everything?" He looked at the screen. "Keep on course for Anstrilia, keeping a sizeable distance from every station there. No damage from them will be accrued." At that moment, several laser shots began impacting the shields. Akarash checked the source. Darkstar. They couldn't penetrate the Aurora's shields, but the rest of the fleet, though hidden, was at risk. "Boost power to shields for all ships. Boost the range of our weaponry and prepare to fire back on the enemy fleet."

"Won't we have to decloak to do that?"

"Nonsense, these stealth systems are designed to hold it even with weapons fire." Several turrets swiveled on the ships and began firing back at the long-range ships.

||MESSAGE TO: Taln Protectorate||

We are willing to exchange it for another tech we need. Darkstar's Hadron weapons are proving to be a problem that we can't work around, though they haven't used them nearly as much anymore. If you can supply a fully functional device able to completely disrupt or stop these Hadron weapons, we would be willing to trade.
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*The fleet begin to mantain a secure firing distance,creating a line of frigates firing the powerful beam lasers.Some corvettes advanced toward the enemy fleet,shooting the standard PIKE missiles and trying their best to dodge enemy fire.*

-Sir,incoming fire!
Captain: Activate the Nightshield.
-But for this we have do remove the cloack.
-Do it.

*By converting a sum of energy to the dark matter around the ship,a special type of void shield is created,enveloping the ship in a shield capable of absorb incoming projectiles and energy shoots. This,however,remove the cloak and is only usable for a short amount of time. Trying to shoot a ship trought it is equal to shooting at a spinning ball.The incoming shoots of the Aurora hit the shields,being inefective.The short amount of time was the necessary for the most critical ships of the fleet withdraw from the main battle,with only the Everest cruisers being there.*

-Sir,the shields are falling!
Captain: I know...retreat and modify the power of the Beam cannons to Infra-red.This will let us fire more often while we retreat.
All ships,stealth mode and redezvous with the Orion fleet.

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MESSAGE TO ORION CONFEDERATION [ENCRYPTED]
We will rendesvouz with you in the next sector. You activated the Osterhagen protocol,did not? [The planet blow up thing]

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INTERNAL:

Development of the Micro-warp engine initiated.[23%]
Creation of the FREYA project on the way. [12%]
The development of the THETA-singularity is on the final stages.

Investments in civillian tech is giving a cutting edge technology in the medical area

[ACH0225]

No plot device yet, pls.

The Strigiforme chemical/biological warhead impacted Dyttii, a relatively large manufacturing world of the EE. The warhead containe specially prepared neurotoxin that caused key, deadly mutations in cells, and could remain in the atmosphere for decades if not treated with the counter-agent. There was also a biological agent inside, NC-15, designed to evolve as quickly as possible. The agent could spread and mutate to suit all manner of species, although a subset of Strigiforme populations were immune. The agent worked by bursting skin and organ cells, creating highly contagious mists of the agent around those infected. The population tried to quarantine themselves, but 12 warheads hit the planet, 6 having neurotoxin and 6 having NC-15. The biological agent killed those who hid in tightly enclosed bunkers, while those who went into the open risked encountering deadly toxin clouds. Very quickly, the planet was near decimated, leaving the EE a message of what they risk by not forking over their border territories.

*please note, NC-15 is a real biological agent, and is one of the deadliest we have available(irl). It is immune to antivirals, antifungals, and antibiotics, and mutates so rapidly keeping a single strain of it the same is near immpossible unless in conditions under -35 C.

[Professor Fenway]

*Sigh* At least I played it up with the launching of it pages ago, but everyone is sick of the war. But if so, FINE

[Crash Override]

*Sigh* At least I played it up with the launching of it pages ago, but everyone is sick of the war. But if so, FINE

You are the boss,lets move on.

[Professor Fenway]

You know what ACHO, no. Plot device, no, STORYLINE UPDATE inbound. I have stated that this will happen from the beginning. You know as well as I do that the whole starting of the Pan-Galactic war was influenced by me, started by me, and finished by ME as a big plot device. Just because there's a big ship that kills a few ships doesn't mean we all become friends to stop it. Heck, it isn't even after to destroy us at the moment, we just got in its way. As such, the war doesn't have to stop just because of it. It's just to advance a separate side NCSD plot. Thank you very much.

BIC:

The second Battle Fleet had been assigned to a border world to Darkstar space. Of course, nobody had anticipated this.

The small frigate, heavily damaged from a recent battle, and limping with incredible determination, attempted to reach the station. Most systems were compromised, most of the crew were dead save a few hiding in the depths of the ship, and everything was redlining. On the bridge, amidst several equipment fires, a man tried to reach whom he could.

He looked around him, at the malfunctioning instruments!"This is Lieutenant Hans, Second Battle Fleet. Mayday! Taken heavy damage! Request immediate support now!" A small piece of armor strained and pulled off. Hans tried again, clearly very distressed. "Repeat! Heavy damage! Immediate support! Is anybody out there? Mayday! Requesting immediate assistance! Someone! Anyone!" Still no response. Hans looked around, sensors showing nothing. "Someone please! We've taken heavy damage! We need immediate support now!" It was hard to tell, but with the controls continually flickering, nothing was coming through. Finally, some static began filtering through before clearing out.

"This is NeoRoman outpost Vortex 19, i'm reading you ship on DRADIS, what's your status?" Squawked the communicator.

"Thank god! The fleet was ambushed! Our weapons were useless! I'm sure they're following me!"

"Calm down, who attacked you? Was it Darkstar?"

"They were killed too, they slaughtered everyone!"

"You were attacked by Darkstar, is that true?"

"No no! We were fighting a fleet, and then it jumped out of nowhere and killed everyone!"

"Who jumped out of nowhere Lieutenant?"

"I-I don't know! They weren't any ships I knew!" A small explosion rocked the ship.

"Calm down sir, I'm sending a rescue team now! Everything is going to be fine!"

"No! Send fighters, bombers, everything! SEND EVERYTHING YOU HAVE NOW!"

"All fleets are engaged Lieutenant, calm down, we have everything under control!"

"No you don't! They're following me! We need everything now! Call the Ragnarov, the Merlin, anything!"

"I don't have operational authority Lieutenant! Please calm down. We're enroute to help you now!"

"SEND EVERYTHING!" The communication began to cut out. "SEND EVERYTHING YOU HAVE NOW!" As the frigate approached, a massive portal began to open. Out from it, berthed a massive ship, slowly, but utterly massive. "It's too late! We're dead!"

"What the hell is that? Get me a battle fleet now!"

"It's too late! Oh god!" The ship was nearly 10 kilometers long, death-black and red. The architecture was irregular, triangular. Two prongs, like sickles, sprung out from the main body of the ship and came together in a arching formation, separated by a large space nearly a KM long. Long straits, like trenches filled with monsters, ran down these prongs onto the central nexus. A massive Rhombus-shaped crystal, pulsing a dark crimson red and arcing with black lines, pulsed in the center of the prongs, surrounded by a skeletal, insidiously designed framework of criss-crossing sections. Three spinning rings, each pointed and discharging crimson red beams into the sections, rotated around this power core. It connected behind to a massive body of spires, spikes, and layered structures, with multiple sections, like short fins, extruding in four sides from the main body. It ended in an engine column, which discharged a red, seething hot plasma of ionized gasses in 7 massive, rectangular engines pieces to fly the entire thing.

"Get me online with the Security Council Now!"

"It's too late! We're all dead!" As he spoke, several turrets swiveled on the station. Each was a Molecular Disassembler, each overcharged to unsafe levels. They discharged the dark-green beams into the massive ship. A bright flare lit up on the outside of the massive ship, discharging the entirety of the weapon's energy into the shield system. Not even a scratch. The ship apparently didn't approve. A crimson-red beam shot out from the tip of the prong and towards the station. It seemed to ignore the shields and incinerated every remnant of the station, before turning toward the limping frigate.

Hans hardly had time to scream before he was disintegrated and scattered among millions of dimensions.

[ACH0225]

I was planning on introducing my own plot device of 12 billion owl super ships being removed from my butt, but instead, I will spare you if you include lens flares in your plot device.

[Vinyl]

<<Internal Affairs>>

After rigorous combat testing, the results have prompted a refit of all applicable Novus equipment with the new armors. 100% combat readiness is expected to be by the end of the month (this is because I have like >75 ships due to the large size requirements I've set in place for my ships). Old infantry armor will be melted down and used in construction due to the high aluminum and titanium content - a similar mixture used in buildings.
A new self-destruct mechanism for ships is being installed along with the armor. Opposed to earlier designs which only destroyed the ship it was placed upon, the new ones access the engines, reactor(s), and ammunition stores to increase the size of the blast. On average, anywhere within 1km of the ship is in effective range. It also comes with automated crew safety measures, accommodating for organic (like most ships include), synthetic (androids), and mechanic (robots and AI's).

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[Luna]

The president was highly focused on a message sent from a scout team. A strigiform task force decided it would be fun to destroy a planet and its ecosystem. There was also a second message, claiming they had found a large object that destroyed a station in less then a second, the ship was estimated to be 5 kilometers long. About the size of most flagships, a good sized fleet should take it out no trouble. No further transmissions from that team, another one found them dead hours after. But right now that wasn't as important, he had an owl infestation on his hands.

Transmission to the EE: We are sending a fleet of ships to assist in driving out the Strigiform.
Fleet:
1 Scorpion class supercarrier
4 Bobcat class battleships
3 Turantula class command frigates
10 Night Terror class frigates
18 Echidna class corvettes
36 Lion class corvettes

We'll keep the Scourage on standby if need arises. It will definetly give other flagships like the Aroura (forgive me if thats not the right name) a run for it's money.

[Ivan2006]

---message to Cavnin---
thank you for the help.
---message end---

internal:
Kommissar: The NeoRoman attack did not stop and Strigiforme forces are bombarding out systems, but the Cavnin Nation is sending reinforcements
Ivan: That won´t be enough! That leaves me no choice but to activate the UEF. Send them to the battle on Mobius and have the remaining ships intercept the Strigiforme torpedoes.
Kommissar: anything else?
Ivan: Yes. Let´s give them something else to worry about. Fire the Eclipse Cannon at NeoRome and the CEC at Cuuyth. (OOC: The Eclipse Cannon is a weapon capable of destroying smaller moons, while the CEC (Chaos Energy Cannon) is a full scale planet buster, altough it propably won´t do that much demage on cuuyth, considering the planetary shielding.)
Kommissar: The CEC? Are you sure? It runs on Psionics, after all.
Ivan: Then unplug the psionic controls and use the electronic ones! That´s what they´re for, after all.
Kommissar: Okay.
Ivan: So, how´s the preparation of the Typhoon- and Halberd-class ships going?
Kommissar: We were unable to continue working on it since NeoRome attacked.
Ivan: Crap. I would have liked to use them in this battle.
Kommissar: We haveprepared the Death Egg II, tough.
Ivan: Fantastic, have it open fire on the NeoRoman forces immediately!
Kommissar: Yessir!


recap: An EE planet buster is fireing at Cuuyth, a "moon buster" is fireing at NeoRome and a battlestation about the size of a superdreadnaught with a main weapon capable of devastating an area the size of old-earth Germany is opening fire on the NeoRoman fleet attacking Mobius while those NeoRoman forces are also angaged by the "United Equestria Fleet", a fleet primarily consisting of elite stealth ships of "unknown origin" (Fenway, I trust you to remember what that means) as well as the Cavnin reinforcements. All other EE forces are intercepting the Strigiforme torpedoes fired on the other worlds.

[ACH0225]

-Cuuyth Defense Command-

"Commander! We have detected dangerous energy levels!"

"Divert all power to the shields! Get every orbital generator on it!"

A few seconds later, a giant beam of light struck the shield around Cuuyth, which grew more and more transparent. However, the beam abated, leaving a near-gap in the shield.

"Commander, shield stations 2-8 are overloaded. Backups are online, but we're below full strength. It should take about 2 weeks to get the primary generators back up again."

@Ivan
The torpedoes aren't in real space often. They are fired out of the Barrage Cannon at just below the speed of light, enter FTL, then jump out of FTL about 150 kilometers above the planet's atmosphere. It then encounters the atmosphere, slows itself down slightly, and explodes. The explosion disperses the payload. That's for chemical or biological warheads. The ones hitting Mobius only jump out of FTL about 10 kilometers outside the atmosphere, and proceed to impact the planet with as much force as possible, to create a shield using the kinetic energy from the impact. The torpedoes are basically unstoppable, unless you can figure out where they are going to impact based on the firing trajectory. The only other way to stop them is having a ship lucky enough to be in the way, which will still get destroyed.

[Professor Fenway]

NeoRome didn't get the Composite Shield Generators up in time, and it was enclosed inside the shield. Alarms all over the planet sprung up as citizens were ordered to take cover and hope they weren't hit.

And nobody was hit, really. The shot missed the main continent by a kilometer or so and penetrated empty space directly to the star core underneath. It overloaded the shield keeping things out and plunged into the fusion reactor.

"Sir, power outputs have jumped 1000% It's going to overload all systems in a matter of moments!"

"Then divert the power to the Impulse Fusion Laser and fire back! It's all we have that can handle that much power!"

"But sir, we don't have jurisdiction..."

"Cuuyth was attacked too, JUST FIRE!"

The power was jumped via a very powerful laser to an orbital station, very much resembling a communication array. Various capacitors running along the main barrel began sparking dangerously. Several explosions occurred as the weapon charged, and then it discharged the weapon in an extremely powerful FTL laser directly at one of the planets of the EE empire.

But damage was still done. Several systems were overloaded, so the weapon needed extensive repairs. On the surface, the massive gravity generators were offline. As such, the entire planet was subject to very weak gravity, and the normal supports were strained to keep the output of the fusion star from pulling the planet apart. Defense mechanisms were offline due to severely damaged power networks, surface industry was brought to a halt, and generally the whole thing was a mess.

-NeoRoman War Council-

Pull back the Aurora, we're redeploying it on new frontiers!


In Orion space outside Anstrilia, the Aurora and surrounding fleet suddenly turned around, before any damage had been accrued to any Orion spaceports or the planet. They shortly entered FTL without any explanation.

[DeadlyMiddie]

//CONFEDERATION COMMAND, LOCATION CENSORED//
General Saxon's Aid: Sir! The NeoRoman fleet at Anstrilia has turned around. They did this right after they fired the Impulse Fusion Laser.
General Saxon: Well then.
Supreme Admiral Johnson: Should we chase them sir?
General Saxon: Negative. Send the 1st and 2nd Fleets back to Anstrilia and tell them to keep a lookout.

Internal Affairs:
Due to the unfortunate status of Anstrilia I being uninhabitable now, the refugees from the planet an the stations orbiting it are being loaded onto Elephant transports so that they can colonize Anstrilia II once the war has simmered down sufficiently.
Constructing the 7th Fleet.
Firing the HADES ARROW at the retreating NeoRoman fleet, just in case they change their mind.
Sending the 1st and 2nd Engineer Divisions to build space stations and basic infrastructure over and on Anstrilia II. The infrastructure will include ground-based Hadron cannons, housing, power sources, and basic farms to get the Anstrilia System's economy back on its feet and benefiting the Confederation.

Building defense platforms over all the planets in the Cyrania System. They will be armed with 3 flak cannons and 1 Hadron cannon each, and have a Particle Shield MKII.

[Crash Override]

INTERNAL:

The ships were reffitted with the new HIDROCOIL cannon and the new Nightshield.
Scientific efforts being made to miniaturize and make the Nightshield more efficient,as well as the Hydrocoil cannon.
A small breaktrought in reactor technology make them more stable,granting more 20% in energy.
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Shipyards are assembling the power to build ships. As the other people would think,this is not giving a resource shortage. While they scrap old ships and attach new planets [Mainly asteroids belts and dwarf planets],this grant good resource income.

The study of the element Zero [Eezo] material is on going right now.
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Moving the 32,45,12 defense flootilas to the Darkstar borders.All attacking fleets are retreating .

MESSAGE TO ORION CONFEDERATION [ENCRYPTED]
You can send some of your refugees to us.Im attaching small dwarf planets and some of them can be populated with the correct hardware.
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[Ivan2006]

Kommissar: Sir, we can´t intercept the Strigiforme missiles and NeoRome fired back!
Ivan: What planet is NeoRome fireing at?
Kommissar: Argentium.
Ivan: I have no idea what they would want from there, they just have an archeological site and some minor colonies...
Kommissar: Argentium was hit and broke apart! (OOC-note: Argentium is a ring world held in shape by some ancient device, however, the strike from the Impulse Fusion Laser destroyed said device, making the whole planet collapse)
Ivan: Send a rescue team. It seems they sent us back our energy...
Kommissar: It appears we still managed to highly cripple their industry and some major systems of planetary defense, however.
Ivan: well, that´s some good news...
Kommissar: And they drew back their forces on Anstrilia.
Ivan: What about Strigiforme?
Kommissar: The shield is definetly weaker than before. some generators seem to have failed.
Grandmaster: Sir, it appears the psionic influence from NCSD space has vanished!
Ivan: Very good. Reactivate everything! The NeoRomans are busy for now, so send them to Cuuyth, I want to get past those now weakened shields and destroy that "Barrage Cannon" of theirs, at least I want the ability to keep it form going into FTL.
Kommissar: Yes, Sir.
Ivan: Also install planetary shields on all major planets, except robotic mining worlds.
Kommissar: right away, Sir.
Ivan: Report me ASAP if the shield´s holding.