Insanowar 11, OR The Most Gloriously Violent Crossover Imaginable... IN SPACE! [Archive]

Darkcomet

2010-01-14, 06:23 PM

Welcome to the Insanowar... IN SPACE!

Normal Insanowar stuff (note that much of this is likely overridden by something following it)
Da Rules:
1.) There are five players, each of which represent a commander of their army.

2.) Each player takes turns choosing some powerful character, semi-powerful group of characters, or large mob of expendable non-characters from any sort of media. Examples: The TMNTs, a Dreadnought from 40K, a mob of kobolds.

3.) When each player has 10 selections, the game begins.

4.) A map will be provided showing the layout of the battlefield. Each person will have a base of operations with which they can wage war. Note that each base is about 2 turns away from each other.

5.) A static turn order is established. In each turn, the player dictates what their troops are doing, as far as the opponent can see. Secret actions need not be reported (although it is good sportsmanship to give hints as to what your are planning).

6.) When troops engage, the person whose turn the engagement took place on decides the outcome, which will usually NOT be all one way. If there is any friendly dispute (and the dispute WILL be friendly, or else), other players/playgrounders chime in with their opinions. If no consensus is reached, it's a 50/50 slaughter.

7.) The winner is the one who wins.

Da Guidelinez:
1.) You can't choose anyone TOO powerful. No gods, demigods, anything like that. Make it something that's about the same power level as the other troops on the field.

2.) Don't be a jerk. The objective here is to have fun--frankly, who wins and who loses is pretty arbitrary anyway. This game is definitely straddling the line between Silly and Structured.

3.) Respect Awesomeness. If a player is pulling off something that's just too awesome to believe, that should aid his victory.

4.) Enjoy yourself. Seriously, guys.

Details for Insanowar IN SPACE! Includes rules and map. If something in this contradicts with the normal Insanowar stuff, this overrides it.
Insanowar...

IN SPACE!
http://img42.imageshack.us/img42/9836/spaceinsano.png

The black is, obviously, space.

The blue circles represent space stations. These have repair functions and such that you would typically expect of sci-fi space stations, but are unarmed.

The five circles outside the middle and the colored areas between them represent asteroids, with the circles representing concentrated asteroid fields. The asteroid concentration between the circles is the same, and the differing look of thickness is from the Inkscape tool I used to make this thing.

The red circle represents a plasma/ion storm, with the tendril-like bits being areas where the storm lashes out at its surroundings.

Now, the unique environment of SPACE! Insanowar presents a few issues of its own. How big can you get? How do superweapons work? Have no fear, these questions will all be answered.

The top of the size bracket would be something around the size of the Executor, the Super Star Destroyer seen in SW Episodes V and VI. It would come without its fighter complement, however, which must come as a separate pick.

Likewise, in the case of superweapons, a ship must come without its superweapon initially as a pick, and the superweapon will come as a second pick. This means that to get something like the Eclipse-a Super Star Destroyer type thing with a superlaser weapon-you would have to spend 3 picks on it to get it up to full-the ship, the fighter complement, and the superlaser. This becomes extremely important, as I will explain later.

A note on the map: The asteroid fields are meant to be harmful to larger ships, as they find it hard to avoid hitting them due to their sheer size. The plasma/ion storm is meant to be harmful to smaller ships, due to them not having as powerful shielding against such things as larger ships.

Finally, and importantly, there will be only 5 picks in SPACE! Insanowar. This is to encourage more tactical thinking on the players' part, as giant superweapons like the Eclipse, described earlier, take up most of your picks when fully outfitted!

Special thanks to Wolfbane for helping to iron out the details on this one.

Players:

Darkcomet
Wolfbane
ThePhantom
The Bushranger
EleventhHour

Darkcomet

2010-01-17, 10:16 AM

Oh hey, look, thread. Finally.

Let the picking begin!

NOTE: Wolfbane and EleventhHour have told me that they plan on using custom fleets and as such can simply name all of their picks at once since no one's going to pick anything only they know of before they can, obviously. This, hopefully, will help to speed things along.

Anyway, I'll start.

Pick 1: The Executor (sans fighter complement,as the rules dictated)
http://images4.wikia.nocookie.net/starwars/images/thumb/2/20/SW_Executor_01.jpg/800px-SW_Executor_01.jpg

Wolf and EH can name their fleets at any time, so Phantom's next normally, then BR.

UncleWolf

2010-01-17, 10:58 AM

I have an idea that I'd like to pass by the rest of you. Do you all think it'd be possible to make this a bit more "reactive" than active? Like in ffrp. My point is that, if the person who does the actions decides the outcome of the fight, it could be potentially...ugly. We have fewer things to work with than in normal Insanowar, and they're (on average), much more powerful. If we make it so the person who the action is against decides the outcome it could take out most of the hostility that seems to have killed off more than a few other Insanowar games(provided we're all good sports about it).

I'm wanting this mostly to make the combat go smoother and to help kill off the limit of godmoddyness. Anything that doesn't effect another play outright is still okay as an action though. Of course, I'm still wanting to keep the Rule of Cool in play (If its suitably epic, consider letting them get away with it provided they've been able to prepare things or it seems reasonable)

Does this sound okay to everyone?

ThePhantom

2010-01-17, 02:35 PM

Darkcomet

2010-01-18, 04:26 PM

That's a bit... low-powered for a pick. Tuned up or no, an armed light freighter does not equal a Super Star Destroyer. Just saying.

EleventhHour

2010-01-18, 05:23 PM

Phae Coalition
Sphinx Battlecruiser :

Engines :
• Sublight : Three Rei'dair Neutrino Wave Turbines
•FTL : Wormhole Generator
Reactor : Biplex Contained Singularity
Weapons :
• Missle-type : 20 Forward Locked Graviton Implosion Torpedo tubes (GIT), 120 Multiple Warhead Fusion Rockets, on ball mountings (6 per mounting, MWFR), 15 Anti-fighter Magnetic Fusion Missles. (MFM)
• Energy-type : 12 Luminal Laser Arrays
Armour : Hived Diamond/Adamantium plating, with a frictionless coating and melded passive energy abosorbtion.
Shields : Pulse Refractive Shielding
Misc's : Drone and Salvage Bays, Cloaking Field,
Mass Communication Relays.
Size : 5 km long, 2.5 Km tall, 4km wide.
Description :
http://starbrightillustrations.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2009/03/kadar-class-spaceship-blueprint-main-view1.jpg - in silver.

Erinyes Corvette : x 60

Engines : -
• Sublight : Retropulse Ion Engines
• FTL : Wormhole Delver
Reactor : Diametric Magnetic-Cycler
Weapons : -
• Missle-type : 3 Forward Locked GITs, 10 Ringmounted Miniprowler Cruise Missles
• Energy-type : 4 Diluminal Lasers
Armour : Photonic Absorbative/Diamond Weave with ablative and energy dispersion.
Shields : - Nil, nothing, nadda -
Misc's : Subatomic Meld Docking Clamps, Holographic Projectors, Cloaking Field
Size : 500 meters long, 400 meters wide, 100 meters tall
Description :
http://johneaves.files.wordpress.com/2009/03/starship-b.jpg - in black.

Nessecary Explainations :

GITs : Torpedos that fire with a barebones tracking system, most of it's length taken up by propulsion and the explosive itself, which upon mixing causes superdense Implosions, dragging nearby material together, then bursting back outwards in a fragmentation.

MWFR : They're advanced nuclear missles, that split into six seperate warheads along the flight path. "Ball" mounts have a complete coverage of one side, unable to rotate backward through the ship itself.

MRM : Missles that can make extremely tight corners, and track through target signal and magnetic seeking...

Lasers : Unlike Phasers, blasters, pulsar beams, or any number of other SciFi energy weapons, Lasers follow the rules they were supposed to, nigh undetectable being a photon's width large, and invisible in space where there's no atmosphere for light dissolution. Pew pew.

MPCM : Miniprowlers are specially designed missles that can be fired while cloaked, and carry highly explosive charges, and drilltips. Armed to explode just after impact, giving time for the drillhead to create a rivethole for the directed blast.

Ringmount A ring mount is a cylinder hooked to the side of the ship, with a missle tube pointing out of each side. These normally contain 4 shots at a time, and rotate in order to assure maximum accuracy, and minimum flight time.

Armour : Both types of armour are made to deflect radar, sensors, light, and almost everything but visual contact. ...but how the heck are you going to spot a tiny ship that's 100,000 Km away firing missles at you?

Holoprojectors : Normally used to simulate an undisrupted starfield in case of close-fire missions, or for those paticularly invasive sensors.

Clamps : These specially designed melding clamps can merge with just about anything solid. Combat use? ...Just about nil. Unless you let them lock onto your windshield and try to fly away with it, or something.

Drones/Salvage Bays : Just for collecting loose metal. Thier small and float around, unarmed. Once again : Unless you let something spend twenty minutes trying to 'salvage' your windshield with a laser cutter.

The Bushranger

2010-01-18, 06:45 PM

Awright, here's

BR's Pick #1

http://images1.wikia.nocookie.net/stargate/images/c/ca/Hive_ship.JPG
http://images2.wikia.nocookie.net/stargate/images/thumb/2/2b/WraithHiveHyperspace.jpg/200px-WraithHiveHyperspace.jpg
Wraith Hiveship (http://stargate.wikia.com/wiki/Hive_Ship)

With a full compiment of fighters:
http://images2.wikia.nocookie.net/stargate/images/a/a1/Dart.JPG
Wraith Darts (http://stargate.wikia.com/wiki/Wraith_Dart)

Darkcomet

2010-01-18, 07:00 PM

Approval for that was given, by the way, before someone goes after BR. <.<

Anyway, mah next pick is:

A single Borg Tactical Sphere
http://images1.wikia.nocookie.net/memoryalpha/en/images/thumb/7/7a/Borg_Sphere.jpg/292px-Borg_Sphere.jpg

ThePhantom

2010-01-19, 10:03 AM

That's a bit... low-powered for a pick. Tuned up or no, an armed light freighter does not equal a Super Star Destroyer. Just saying.

I know that. That's what my next pick is for: about 100 A-Wings.

You know, the rebel triangle ships, the fast ones with low shields, the kind that took out the Executor in the movies.

UncleWolf

2010-01-19, 10:57 AM

The Bushranger

2010-01-19, 12:00 PM

I believe it's my turn again...

BR's Pick #2

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3321/3204992836_da768c6671.jpg?v=0
Talyn (http://farscape.wikia.com/wiki/Talyn)

Video #1 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BK1LvaUohf8) (Sonic Ascendency Cannon)
Video #2 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aIpumua3zuE) (Starburst)

UncleWolf

2010-01-20, 11:30 AM

The Alliance (I know it's cliche, but it works)

3 Dreadnought Class Fenrir Pattern Heavy Cruisers. (The Furies, The Fates, and The Nameless)

Length: 9.5km.
Width: 2km
Height: 1km
Hull:10-15 foot thick superconductor/steel alloy, 30 foot thick at the prow.
Shields: Light deflective force shielding.
Drive: Triple Gravity Drive. (Projects a triad of small black holes in front of the ship to make it "fall" forward at incredible speeds), and Maneuvering thrusters.
FTL: None
Weapons:

2 railguns(one on top, one on the bottom) stretching the full length of the ship, able to fire a 5m diameter block between .5c and .9c(where c = speed of light). Effective: Short to Long Range
20 Shredder Cannons: Shoots clouds of metal ball bearings and monowire filaments. Effective: Short to Medium-short range
20 6 inch bore Plasma Cannon: Effective: Short range
Ramming Prow: Effective: Close Combat Only:smallbiggrin:
Misc:
Boarding Parties: Armed with Shotguns, Heavy Anti-Personnel Plasma cannon, and flamethrowers as well as assorted melee weapons.
Combat Boarding Shuttles

(Remainder of my picks will come soon, when I have time)

4 Titan Class Promethium Pattern Light Cruisers (Maelstrus, Cerberus, Hades, Inferno)

Length: 4km
Width:.5km
Height:.5km
Hull: 5 feet thick, 20 feet on prow. Superconductor/Steel alloy
Shields: Light strength deflective force shielding
Drive: Triple Gravity Drive, Maneuvering Jets
FTL: None
Weapons:
1 3km long railgun (on top)
2 sets of 100 short range ballistic missiles, set in racks of 20 on each side. Range: Short, Accuracy: fair
4 shredder cannons
4 plasma cannons
Ramming Prow
Misc:
Boarding Parties
Combat Boarding Shuttles

If there are any questions or complaints, I'll gladly help sort them out.

Darkcomet

2010-01-20, 05:51 PM

Let's see... since I don't have anything for now, I'm just going to grab this up, since it's not going to surprise anyone:

The fighter complement of the Executor, in the form of TIE Interceptors and TIE Bombers
http://images2.wikia.nocookie.net/starwars/images/thumb/6/65/Tieinter2.jpg/800px-Tieinter2.jpg
http://images2.wikia.nocookie.net/starwars/images/thumb/9/9b/TIE_Bomber.jpg/250px-TIE_Bomber.jpg

ThePhantom

2010-01-21, 05:03 PM

Pick #3 for me.

Um, would 3 MC80 Liberty type Star Cruisers (http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/MC80_Liberty_type_Star_Cruiser) be allowed?

(They're the big rebell alliance ships seen at the Battle of Erdor.)

Darkcomet

2010-01-21, 06:49 PM

Fine by me. I don't think each one is actually as powerful as 1/3 an Executor, even without fighters, but we're not here to debate power. Yay scaling!

The Bushranger

2010-01-21, 08:46 PM

BR's Pick #3

http://media.moddb.com/images/mods/1/12/11562/Wraith_Cruiser_Rebuild_Texture3.jpg
4 Wraith Cruisers (http://stargate.wikia.com/wiki/Wraith_cruiser)

Darkcomet

2010-01-24, 06:22 PM

Right. I apologize for the wait. Beyond the things I already took I had no particular plans. But now I have it.

Sovereign (http://masseffect.wikia.com/wiki/Sovereign)
http://images2.wikia.nocookie.net/masseffect/images/thumb/f/f0/Reaper.jpg/770px-Reaper.jpg
http://images2.wikia.nocookie.net/masseffect/images/thumb/8/84/Sovereign_Codex_Image.jpg/211px-Sovereign_Codex_Image.jpg

You may run now. HahahahahAHAHAHAHAHAHAhahahAHAHAHA*cough*

Sorry, had to get that out of my system. In all honesty I have no idea what I'm going to do with that and the Borg. Whatever it is it can't be good for any of you, though. >.>

ThePhantom

2010-01-25, 10:39 AM

Darkcomet

2010-01-25, 04:41 PM

Picks, in my mind at least, should not be measured by what someone already has. Unless it's something like picking each piece of the Triforce or something, in other words an instant-win button-but this is hardly an instant win button.

Keep a few things in mind:

I deliberately picked the Borg Sphere instead of a Borg Cube to keep zomgpower down.

Sovereign cannot simply mind control everyone. You have to be in the bloody thing, and I know you all aren't so stupid as to board the thing (not to imply that you're stupid, but I was lacking a better phrase).

My power is highly concentrated thus far in Sovereign, Executor, and the Sphere.

UncleWolf

2010-01-25, 04:51 PM

*scratches off the idea to board Sovereign* >.>

I'm working on my last ship, but I have no objections to letting DC have both. He has few ships for now, nothing I really can't take care of. :smalltongue:

EleventhHour

2010-01-25, 04:52 PM

ThePhantom

2010-01-25, 04:54 PM

The Bushranger

2010-01-25, 06:15 PM

Well, I did have my fourth pick ready.

Then I found...something.

Something awesome (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hiDlWzdqtjM&NR=1)...

BR's Pick #4

http://otal.umd.edu/~mgk/blog/yamato.jpg
Space Battleship Yamato (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_Battleship_Yamato_(spaceship))

With its Cosmo Zero (http://i302.photobucket.com/albums/nn107/Boikat/COSZRO.jpg) fighters.

UncleWolf

2010-01-26, 10:33 AM

The first half of my last pick (a small squadron of fighters to come later)

1 Poseidon Class Carrier (The Kraken)

Length: 6km
Width:1km
Height:1km
Hull: 15 feet thick superconductor/steel alloy hull, reinforced superstructure
Shields: None
Drives: Triple Gravity Drive, Maneuvering Jets
FTL: None
Weapons:
8 10-inch bore repeater particle cannons (fires a large explosive shell at high velocities) Range: Short to Medium Special: High rate of fire
16 6-inch bore Plasma Cannon Range: Short
Misc:
Fighter bays

Darkcomet

2010-01-28, 05:44 PM

I'll wrap this up with something... maybe a bit less terrifying.

Twenty Imperial Missile Boats (http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Missile_Boat)
http://images3.wikia.nocookie.net/starwars/images/6/61/MissileBoat-TFDOTEOSS.jpg

Darkcomet

2010-01-31, 01:46 PM

Psst. Phantom. Are you there?

If Phantom doesn't post soon I'mma say BR can take his last pick.

Bahumat

2010-01-31, 05:31 PM

I'll sign up as a replacement for anyone, if that's ok?

Everything is more awesome in space, after all.

The Bushranger

2010-02-01, 12:33 AM

Well, then,

BR's Pick #5

2 x Victory-class destroyers (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victory_class_destroyer) and 4 White Stars (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_Star_(Babylon_5)):
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/b/bc/Crusade_-_Victory_class_destroyer.jpg http://www.etmortius.net/mds/base/things/vehicles/b5/excaliber.jpg
http://www.kitsune.addr.com/SF-Conversions/Rifts-B5-Ships/Alliance_WhiteStar.jpg

Watch This on the Victory-class. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e1nUn6vT1yc) :smallwink:

ThePhantom

2010-02-01, 10:36 AM

I'm still here, its just my server crashed late thursday, and I couldn't get here until today.

Now for my last pick, and my most powerful, the Viscount-class Star Defender (http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Viscount-class_Star_Defender).

Its a little smaller than the Executor, and its about equal in power.

UncleWolf

2010-02-01, 03:21 PM

The Alliance

3 Dreadnought Class Fenrir Pattern Heavy Cruisers. (The Furies, The Fates, and The Nameless)

Length: 9.5km.
Width: 2km
Height: 1km
Hull:10-15 foot thick superconductor/steel alloy, 30 foot thick at the prow.
Shields: Light deflective force shielding.
Drive: Triple Gravity Drive. (Projects a triad of small black holes in front of the ship to make it "fall" forward at incredible speeds), and Maneuvering thrusters.
FTL: None
Weapons:

2 railguns(one on top, one on the bottom) stretching the full length of the ship, able to fire a 5m diameter block between .5c and .9c(where c = speed of light). Effective: Short to Long Range
20 Shredder Cannons: Shoots clouds of metal ball bearings and monowire filaments. Effective: Short to Medium-short range
20 6 inch bore Plasma Cannon: Effective: Short range
Ramming Prow: Effective: Close Combat Only:smallbiggrin:
Misc:
Boarding Parties: Armed with Shotguns, Heavy Anti-Personnel Plasma cannon, and flamethrowers as well as assorted melee weapons.
Combat Boarding Shuttles

4 Titan Class Promethium Pattern Light Cruisers (Maelstrus, Cerberus, Hades, Inferno)

Length: 4km
Width:.5km
Height:.5km
Hull: 5 feet thick, 20 feet on prow. Superconductor/Steel alloy
Shields: Light strength deflective force shielding
Drive: Triple Gravity Drive, Maneuvering Jets
FTL: None
Weapons:
1 3km long railgun (on top)
2 sets of 100 short range ballistic missiles, set in racks of 20 on each side. Range: Short, Accuracy: fair
4 shredder cannons
4 plasma cannons
Ramming Prow
Misc:
Boarding Parties
Combat Boarding Shuttles

1 Poseidon Class Carrier (The Kraken)

Length: 6km
Width:1km
Height:1km
Hull: 15 feet thick superconductor/steel alloy hull, reinforced superstructure
Shields: None
Drives: Triple Gravity Drive, Maneuvering Jets
FTL: None
Weapons:
8 10-inch bore repeater particle cannons (fires a large explosive shell at high velocities) Range: Short to Medium Special: High rate of fire
16 6-inch bore Plasma Cannon Range: Short
Misc:
Fighter bays

100 Legion Class Fighters (4 Squadrons of 25, Hick's Hellcats, Waykle's Wolves, Joan's JettJets and Alice's Adders)

Length: 10meters
Width:5m at the wings
Height: 3m
Hull: .5 meter thick steel/superconductor steel alloy
Shields: Medium Strength Ablative Force Shielding
Drive: Single Grav Drive (One black hole for increased mobility), maneuvering thrusters
FTL: None
Weapons:
2 dual 3 inch bore rapid fire rotary particle cannons(one on each wing)
1 2 inch bore plasma cannon turret
[list]Veteran pilots]

I believe that is my full list The Kraken has easily enough room for 5-6 times the amount, but figured that many would be too much. Though, considering some of the picks...>.>

Anyways, I like my fleet. Good luck killing it. :smallbiggrin:

Darkcomet

2010-02-02, 07:08 AM

Hm... I think that's everyone done? I'll start after I get home later if that's right...

Darkcomet

2010-02-02, 09:41 PM

Righty. Turn order is:

Darkcomet
Wolfbane
ThePhantom
The Bushranger
EleventhHour

Map's in the first post as always. On stations: I'll be the top, Wolf's the right, Phantom's bottom right, BR's bottom left, and Elly is left.

Top Station

The Executor exits hyperspace with the missile boats and its fighters in tow at the top station, Sovereign and the Borg Sphere not far behind.

Admiral Firmus Piett, in command of the Executor, attempts to open a comm channel to the Sphere and Sovereign, knowing to some extent that they were on the same side. The Borg respond only with their typical jargon.

"We are the Borg. Lower your shields and surrender your ships. We will add your biological and technological distinctiveness to our own. Your culture will adapt to service us. Resistance is futile."

Piett quickly ordered the crew to cut communications with the Borg. Sovereign, however, initiated communications itself. Naturally, though, it avoids revealing its fully-robotic nature.

"The half-synths are preparing to board your vessel. Send your commanding officer to our ship and we may discuss this further, without the risk of our communications being intercepted."

Piett frowned. This could all too easily be a trap. But that Sphere's communications suggested that it was accurate. He, with several stormtrooper guards, boarded a shuttle and went over to Sovereign.

Meanwhile, the Collective faced a dilemma. Scans suggested that the Executor's shields were too strong for the Sphere to break without extra firepower. The Sphere is promptly hailed by none other than Sovereign.

"I am aware of your intentions to assimilate the organics' craft, half-synths. I have arranged for their commanding officer to board me. You will arrive before he does in order to assimilate him."

The Collective was just as ignorant of Sovereign's nature as Piett, sending a drone force over to arrange the assimilation of Admiral Piett... and Sovereign itself. But it doesn't know why that won't work...

Once Piett arrives, he and his escort are surrounded by drones. The stormtroopers gun down several before they adapt, and then all is silent...

And so the game begins with betrayal in the depths of space...

[Fleet List]
1 Executor-class Star Dreadnought-Executor
1 Borg Sphere
1 Reaper Vanguard- Sovereign
Standard Executor Fighter Complement (TIE Interceptors/TIE Bombers)
20 Missile Boats

Request: I won't be doing anything significant for a while, so could I please be allowed to do some things before I get attacked?

UncleWolf

2010-02-03, 10:41 AM

Right Station

The call came out from The Nameless. "All ships, Full deceleration!"

All 8 ships of The Alliance groaned as they slowed from their more than impressive speeds. The Comms Officer looks back at Admiral Trevenar Ta'lok. "All ships are commencing full deceleration, sir. What are their orders?"

The Admiral watches the hologram of the surrounding area, frowning as he sees the massive size of the ships that had arrived before them. Too bad they were out of accurate range of his railguns.

For now.

"Tell them to go to Defensive Formation Atredes and get the Legion fighters prepped for launch."

The ships begin to move, following his orders.

Meanwhile...

On The Kraken, the alarms blare, cutting the friendly game of strip poke the four flight leaders had been playing. For some reason the ladies always seemed to win. Waykle thought they cheated at the game, and Hicks...well, he just didn't care.

After the obligatory cutscene of them getting their clothes back on, the four and their teams lined up in the nearly empty fighter bays as Bronstrom, Captain of the ship inspected them.

"Listen up! We've come to the ass end of nowhere with orders from the higherups. I don't know why we're here, and frankly, I don't give a ****, but what I do know is that you hundred are the best of the best, survivors of a dozen wars, trained on the harshest of death worlds, and you're the biggest baddest SOB's out there!"

He walks down the line, looking them up and down. "When we started out 20 years ago, this ship was once packed to the brim with you, and others like you, but we're the last and I plan on keeping it that way by dammit."

His speech stops as he adjusts Waykle's uniform slightly. "I don't know what's waiting for us out there, but I have complete faith that you will be able to handle it." He salutes the men and women in front of him. "Now, prepare your ships and get ready for a fight."

With one final salute, they follow his orders.

Army list

3 Dreadnought Class Fenrir Pattern Heavy Cruisers. (The Furies, The Fates, and The Nameless)
4 Titan Class Promethium Pattern Light Cruisers (Maelstrus, Cerberus, Hades, Inferno)
1 Poseidon Class Carrier (The Kraken)
100 Legion Class Fighters (4 Squadrons of 25, Hick's Hellcats, Waykle's Wolves, Joan's Jets and Alice's Adders)

ThePhantom

2010-02-03, 01:26 PM

Bottom Right Station

At this remote part of space, the Rebel Alliance refuels and resupplies when the sensors pick up four fleets taking positions nearby. Aboard the Viscount-class Star Defender, an ensign makes his report to Admiral Ackbar.

"Admiral Ackbar, the hyperdrives aren't working, and four fleets of unknown ships have taken positions nearby.'

Admiral Ackbar turns in his chair.

"Have the pilots to their ships and be prepared for battle. But do not fire until hostilities have been confirmed."

General Han Solo, while the pilots make their ships ready, takes off in the Millennium Falcon.

"Don't worry Chewy, I know what I'm doing."

The Millennium Falcon heads for the nearest part of the astroid belt.

Fleet List
1. The Millennium Falcon
2. 100 A-Wings
3. 3 MC80 Liberty type Star Cruisers
4. 75 X-Wings
5. Viscount-class Star Defender

The Bushranger

2010-02-04, 08:03 PM

Bottom Left Station

A hyperspace window opens, flaring blue-green against the blackness of space. From it emerge a sight to strike fear in the hearts of everyone...at least, everyone in the Pegasus Galaxy, at any rate. As a Wraith Hive emerges from the spatial distortion, four cruisers following it out.

Not finding Atlantis here, Todd does what any Wraith does in a unfamilar situation. Specifically, orders his ships to launch all their Darts.

Which promptly starts to happen.

A moment later, a new swirling of energy opens into a jump point, two large, long ships emerging, four White Stars buzzing around them as their commanders try to figure out just what's going on. (1:05 to 1:14 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e1nUn6vT1yc))

Things get even stranger when a rather organic-looking ship emerges from its own rift in space.
And looks to have dragged an old Earth battleship with it...

THE FLEET
Wraith Hiveship (and Darts)
4 Wraith Cruisers (and Darts)
Talyn
Space Battleship Yamato (and Cosmo Zeros)
2 Victory-class Destroyers, 4 White Stars

EleventhHour

2010-02-05, 10:10 PM

Left - Endurance Station

"There is life."
The grand cruiser of the Coalition rips through space, a twisted vortex of colours... light... things beyond description as an event horizon tears it's way into reality, dispersing the hull of the ship.

"They are not the Ancients, Commadore." One of the smaller ships, that were piggy-back riding on thier more massive cousin, practically invisible to all means.

No. They are not. They must be removed. Disperse the Corvettes. We will sterlize the area.

The sixty smaller ships break off from the flagship, disappearing into the bacl void of deep space. They will not stand before us... The mechanical voice whispers into the dark, alone.

1 Sphynix Battlecruiser
60 Eyrines Corvettes

Darkcomet

2010-02-06, 06:21 PM

Top Station

Admiral Piett and his guard had been assimilated by now, granting the Collective access to pretty much everything there is to know about the Executor. A transmission, using Piett's voice, is sent to the Executor.

"Lower your shields."

An odd order, surely, but not following orders-or just incompetence-tends to get you killed in the Empire. Especially if there's a Sith Lord around. Executor's shields are lowered.

Borg immediately beam into the bridge tower, taking the Executor crew by surprise and quickly taking over. Assimilation of the bridge commences in order to take control of the ship.

Meanwhile, a similar event occurs in the dreadnought's crew quarters, ending with the portion of the ship's crew not on active duty being assimilated.

The interior of the Executor is now in utter chaos.

Finally, there is a new conflict on Sovereign itself. The Borg are attempting to assimilate the Reaper, but seem to be unable to take control of it. But there's something odd happening to the portion of the Collective on the Sphere/Sovereign/Executor now. Like a voice whispering in its many drones' heads...

Fleet List
1 Executor-class Star Dreadnought- Executor- Being Assimilated
1 Borg Sphere- ???
1 Reaper Vanguard- Sovereign- ???
Standard Executor Fighter Complement (TIE Interceptors/TIE Bombers)
20 Missile Boats

Note-I'd have posted sooner, but Wolf's away for the weekend so there's no reason to hurry.

UncleWolf

2010-02-08, 02:13 PM

Right Station

Admiral Ta'lok sighs as his ships move. It had been a hard 20 years. Their fleet had been one of the most impressive of it's time. The once 100 beautiful ships reduced to a mere 8. He remembered The Leviathan, easily 10 times larger and 1000 times more massive than his own The Nameless. It had sported hundreds of guns, heavy shields, and the finest crew imaginable. He remembered when it cracked in twain, the asteroid guns of the V'traan having hit it with a planetkiller. He closes his eyes as he recalled the scene of both halves falling into the sun they had battled over.

All hands lost.

The Peregrine, his head stealth ship, barely larger than one of the Legion Fighters. A beautifully sleek ship, crashed into an insurrectionist's cruiser, it's drive having malfunctioned and the fail-safes fried.

All hands presumed lost. Eaten by it's own black hole, no way to tell if they're alive or dead.

The list goes on. He remembered the death of all 92 main ships, and he tried to do his best to remember all of the thousands of dead fighters and bombers. But he couldn't, there were just too many. Just too damned many. Men, women, children. It had been impossible to restrict family forming in the situation they lived in. He had actually encouraged it. Families kept morale up. Children, even more so.

The Admiral sighs and visits the most important piece of equipment in the fleet. The coffee machine. With a fresh cup of coffee, he heads back to the bridge, settling in for a long day. Analyzing the holomap of the surrounding area, he nods.

"Helmsman, send Hades and Inferno on heading 300 degrees by 300 degrees (Towards The Phantom's fleet, slighting above). Let's test out their defenses and get this started."

3 Dreadnought Class Fenrir Pattern Heavy Cruisers. (The Furies, The Fates, and The Nameless)
4 Titan Class Promethium Pattern Light Cruisers (Maelstrus, Cerberus, Hades, Inferno)
1 Poseidon Class Carrier (The Kraken)
100 Legion Class Fighters (4 Squadrons of 25, Hick's Hellcats, Waykle's Wolves, Joan's Jets and Alice's Adders)

ThePhantom

2010-02-08, 04:31 PM

Bottom Right Station

Admiral Ackbar watches the sensors as a pair of ships get closer to the station and the ships docked there.

"Try to reach those ship on the comunications."

He turns to another person on the bridge.

"Are the pilots in their ship?"

"Yes, sir. They can launch as soon as you give the word."

"Very good."

The Star Cruisers undock from the station, and move so that the wings can be launched.

Fleet List
1. The Millennium Falcon
2. 100 A-Wings
3. 3 MC80 Liberty type Star Cruisers
4. 75 X-Wings
5. Viscount-class Star Defender

The Bushranger

2010-02-10, 08:59 PM

Bottom Left Station

""The ships at bearing 020 are attempting communications with the ship approaching them," the Wraith at the Hive's control console reports. "Our scans indicate they are heavily armed but lack proper shielding."

Todd considers this for a moment, then comes to a decision. "Direct the Darts and cruisers to intercept those ships. Use...standard hailing procedures." He chuckles. Hanging around the Lanteans has certainly improved his sense of humour, he thinks...

The cruisers peel off, a swarm of Darts following them torwards Admiral Ackbar's ship...

For the moment, the other ships remain in place, their crews frantically trying to determine where they are and what is going on.

The Leviathian hybrid's captain, for instance, is considering the implications of all those nasty-looking guns on that one ship that looks like something Crichton's people would come up with...and opens a channel.

(That last bit is 'intramural')

EleventhHour

2010-02-11, 05:44 PM

Left

The sixty sleek forms of the corvettes split off, darting into the asteroid field and becoming for all intents and purposes, invisible, as they glide away. The Grand Cruiser itself wanders around the station, sending out probes to attach themselves and begin repairs, and upgrades to the massive structure. It leaves the probes to begin a wander toward the massive energy cluster in the middle of the sector.

~Same as Before~

Darkcomet

2010-02-11, 11:41 PM

Top Station

The assimilation of the sections of the Executor mentioned previously is becoming all too obvious, the bridge tower, for example, beginning to show Borg traits.

Borg control of the ship is becoming stronger and stronger, drones moving to assimilate weapons, engines, and, well, most of the ship in general, really. The Executor will be fully assimilated at this rate. Borg control of the ship is nigh-absolute.

Meanwhile, Sovereign has done something... interesting. It has implanted the assimilated Admiral Piett with its own cybernetics, granting the Reaper control over the assimilated admiral...and also subverting the Collective further, granting Sovereign access to its information.

Including information on Executor's apparent weaknesses and strengths. Sovereign does not like what it finds regarding the Executor's bridge tower. So... exposed. Weak. Inefficient. Many of the things the Reapers have come to loathe.

But it also knows the Collective is taking control of the ship, and that the bridge tower will be completely obsolete soon enough. This doesn't satiate the Reaper, though. In fact...

"You exist because we allow it."

Sovereign levels its two-kilometer long main gun toward the base of the unshielded Executor's bridge tower and blasts it clean off of the ship.

The Borg attempt to retaliate, but find that they cannot.

"You will serve because we demand it."

Notable Events
The Borg are being indoctrinated.
Executor no longer has a bridge tower. Note that I'm treating the domes on it as sensor domes, easily replaced by the Borg.

Fleet List

1 Executor-class Star Dreadnought- Executor- Being Assimilated
1 Borg Sphere
1 Reaper Vanguard- Sovereign
Standard Executor Fighter Complement (TIE Interceptors/TIE Bombers)
20 Missile Boats

Bwahahahahaha. I'm aware indoctrination doesn't work that fast, but I figured I had to speed it up if Sovereign was to have any purpose other than a generic dreadnought. Besides, most of the time Sovereign probably wouldn't be trying that hard, but against something actively undermining it? Yeah. It'll certainly be toned down if anyone's stupid enough to board it, though. But I doubt that...

UncleWolf

2010-02-12, 12:41 AM

Right

Admiral Ta'lok frowns at the sight of the ships attacking each other. "What..." he shakes his head. "Tell the The Furies and The Fates to charge all rails. I want the ready for battle in case they turn their attentions towards us." On the other two ships, colossal energies begin to charge their weapon systems.

Meanwhile...
The two ships lower their angle a bit, Hades slightly above and behind it's sister ship. On the bridge, Captain Gaz opens up the incoming vidscreen call. "This is Captain Gaz of the Alliance ship Inferno. We are merely wishing to bypass your position as we see that you are no threat to our objective. Is this acceptable?"

Army list

3 Dreadnought Class Fenrir Pattern Heavy Cruisers. (The Furies, The Fates, and The Nameless)
4 Titan Class Promethium Pattern Light Cruisers (Maelstrus, Cerberus, Hades, Inferno)
1 Poseidon Class Carrier (The Kraken)
100 Legion Class Fighters (4 Squadrons of 25, Hick's Hellcats, Waykle's Wolves, Joan's Jets and Alice's Adders)

ThePhantom

2010-02-12, 10:34 AM

Lower Right

Captain Alab, who is of the same species as Ackbar, answers.

"There is no problem with that. Now if you excuse me, Captain Gaz, I have to something to take care of."

Two of the Star Cruisers move between the Star Defender and the incoming Wrath cruiser, their groups of A and X-wings lanched.

Fleet List
1. The Millennium Falcon
2. 100 A-Wings
3. 3 MC80 Liberty type Star Cruisers
4. 75 X-Wings
5. Viscount-class Star Defender

The Bushranger

2010-02-12, 07:34 PM

Lower Left

"The other vessels have launched fighters of two classes," reports the weapons operator on the leading Wraith cruiser, the ships having formed into a flying-wedge formation, the Darts forming a circling, buzzing cloud. "Sensors indicate heavy beam armament, but no drones."

"Have the Darts engage them," the cruiser formation's commander orders.

And, as the orders go out, the Darts (http://stargate.wikia.com/wiki/Wraith_Dart) turn, forming up into a swarm as they open up with their pulse weapons, cutting into the Rebellion fighter formation as they sweep in to engage!

Meanwhile...a hailing signal is sent to the Grand Cruiser of the Coalition from one of the long, three-winged vessels (http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/b/bc/Crusade_-_Victory_class_destroyer.jpg).

"Unknown vessels, this is Captian Anderson of the Interstellar Alliance destroyer Victory, please respond."

1 Wraith Hiveship + Darts (Darts engaging Lower Right)
4 Wraith Crusiers + Darts (engaging Lower Right)
Talyn
Yamato
2 Victory-class Destroyers + 4 White Stars

EleventhHour

2010-02-13, 11:57 AM

[Left, Asteroids]

The invisible sleek forms of the corvettes dodge in and out of the tumbling masses of stone, some larger than thier entire ship, and smaller ones that come too close are sliced apart by lasers beyond the visible spectrum, and all of a atom thick. The little ships continue on breaking into squadrons of three, and splitting up to go around the massive energy storm in the middle.

[Left, Space]

The Grand Cruiser leaves the station further behind, and begins to follow the perimeter of the asteroids along, Heading... Up, the discus of stones. Proceeding according to Extermination File 413, Index and Destroy. A multitude of monotone robotic voices anwsered the One, all confirmations.

:: Whoops, missed that radio.

The hiss of static, and a burst of on-and-off noise. Like a million pings in all of three seconds. -slator online. You are not Progenators, nor Vanguard. Native Species. Subdialect : Root, Genesis Sector 4.

Darkcomet

2010-02-13, 08:32 PM

Top Station

The assimilation of Executor proceeds once again, now under the orders of Sovereign. The Reaper watches the events in the depths of space... including spotting the cruiser coming toward the area with optical sensors-since it's not hidden in the asteroid field, though it was invisible to everything else. A transmission is sent to the Grand Cruiser from Sovereign.

"Unknown vessel. State your intentions immediately."

The two colossal dreadnoughts-Sovereign and Executor-might lend some impact to Sovereign's command.

Meanwhile, the Executor is launching the -assimilated- Missile Boats.

Fleet List
1 Executor-class Star Dreadnought- Executor- Being Assimilated - 1 turn to full assimilation
1 Borg Sphere
1 Reaper Vanguard- Sovereign
Standard Executor Fighter Complement (TIE Interceptors/TIE Bombers) - Assimilated
20 Missile Boats - Assimilated

Shortest post from me so far, I think...

UncleWolf

2010-02-13, 11:00 PM

Right

Admiral Ta'lok zooms in on the Executor as his navigator continues his findings. "Sir, it appears that it's hull is being...corrupted, for lack of a better word. We're also getting trace signals showing that the crew tried to put up a fight."

The Admiral sighs. "We'll pray for their souls to be delivered to Eclipsia in honor. Keep an eye on those ships. Should any hostile movement be scene coming from their direction, you will fire all rails, max power at them."

His Armsmaster nods. "As you will."

Meanwhile...

Captain Alab will see his viewscreen open again, Captain Gaz of Inferno on the other end. "We notice that you are under attack. We are in a position to give you aid. Do you require it?"

Meanwhile...

A shuttle launches from The Kraken, docking at the space station and it's crews begin to unload a massive piece of machinery.

ThePhantom

2010-02-15, 10:42 AM

Lower Right

As the darts begin firing on the X and A-wings, the wings start firing back.
The Star Cruisers also begin to open fire on the darts.

"That would be most helpful."

Fleet List1. The Millennium Falcon
2. 86 A-Wings
3. 3 MC80 Liberty type Star Cruisers
4. 64 X-Wings
5. Viscount-class Star Defender

The Bushranger

2010-02-16, 03:52 PM

Lower Left

The Star Cruisers' turbolasers score a few hits at first, but their tracking rate soon proves inferior to the maneuverability of the fast-moving Darts..

The fighters prove more successful, the X-Wings more so than the A-wings, and soon a massive furball develops as the fighters engage eachother. But weight of numbers favours the Darts, who start carving up the Rebellion fighters...

Meanwhile aboard the leading Cruiser...

"We are in range of the smaller enemy capital ships."

"Open fire."

As one, the four cruisers start sending a barrage of electric-blue energy blasts at the Star Cruisers...

---

"I'm afraid I have no idea who the Progenitors or Vanguard are," Captain Anderson admits. "I serve the Interstellar Alliance, consisting of twenty-three major powers in my area of space. We seem to be stranded here among...rather hostile powers, and would like to agree to a truce with your vessels.

---

The Wraith Hive, meanwhile, turns and powers up its engines once more, starting in the direction of the ship son the Right...

---

The other vessels seem to remain talking with each other...

Fleet List:
1 Wraith Hive }
4 Wraith Cruisers } Darts
Yamato } Comso Tigers
Talyn
2 Victory-class Destroyers + 4 White Stars

EleventhHour

2010-02-17, 12:49 PM

Lower Left-Middle

A team of cloaked corvettes slowly take up position on and around asteroids, invisibly watching the opening motions of combat with crystalline digital eyes, sensor nets and probes...

- @Anderson
Inferrence is Correct. Await Indexing and Termination. Please remain calm.

Left - Top

The GC turns slowly, lights blinking along it's hull. It remains silent, no signal returning the call... and then a burst of binary-noise, and a rift opens in front of it's nose, beginning to inhale the length of the ship. Those ever-knowledgable machine races, might recognize it as a wormhole...

Darkcomet

2010-02-17, 06:05 PM

[Top Station]

The assimilation of the Executor is now complete, the Borg features now covering all of the Star Dreadnought's 19-kilometer length.

"Unknown vessel has failed to comply."

Sovereign fires its two kilometer long main gun at the Grand Cruiser, though it'll likely just go into the wormhole. The Executor follows suit, firing toward the cruiser with its turbolasers, though again, they'll probably get blocked by the wormhole for the most part. Might inflict a bit of damage to the GC, or it might get shrugged off by the shields.

UncleWolf

2010-02-17, 09:03 PM

Lower-Right

Hades and Inferno make their way into the midst of the Star Cruisers, seeming to bolster them. Their weapons charge, ready to fire.

Right

Admiral Ta'lok smiles at the sight on the holomap. Two of his ships were in perfect position. "Commsman, open all frequencies. Internal and External. Then start playing the song we found in the Erlan system." The officer grins and does so, knowing what's going to happen next.

"To anyone listening. This is Admiral Trevenar Ta'lok, Commander of The Alliance of Incursion, The Wolves of Seven Systems. I hereby claim all spoils of war." He grins at the veiwscreens. "Ships, reveal your true colors!"

Out of the tops of all ships, several poles extend, unfurling their dozens of meters long flags as music plays.

Theme (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SqSQMF6Ats0)

http://i431.photobucket.com/albums/qq40/happyturtle-avs/avatars/wolfyrogers.png

The Kraken

The fighter pilots grin at the announcements and polish their sleek black ships.

Lower-Right

As soon as the flags are unfurled, Hades and Inferno Captain Gaze smiles. "Open Fire!" Their sides open up, revealing massive racks of missiles upon missiles, launching dozens at the first moment. These are headed towards the smaller Star Cruisers. The missiles are not that accurate, and they only have a moderate power yield, but this is rather short range.

Then their railguns fire. Twin lines of energy glow along the tops of the sister ships, launching the car sized rounds weighing several tonnes each in the direction of the Wraith Cruisers.

Station

The workers begin attaching the Heavy Shield Generator to the station's systems.

((What? You thought they were the good guys? :smalltongue:))

Army list

3 Dreadnought Class Fenrir Pattern Heavy Cruisers. (The Furies, The Fates, and The Nameless)
4 Titan Class Promethium Pattern Light Cruisers (Maelstrus, Cerberus, Hades, Inferno)
1 Poseidon Class Carrier (The Kraken)
100 Legion Class Fighters (4 Squadrons of 25, Hick's Hellcats, Waykle's Wolves, Joan's Jets and Alice's Adders)

(Thanks to Happyturtle for the Pirate flag ^^)

ThePhantom

2010-02-18, 09:59 AM

Lower-Right

As the Star Cruisers shields hold against the missiles and energy blasts fired on them, a aid motoring the battle reports.

"Captain, we have discovered a weakness in the small fighters, they have no shields on their undersides. Also, the shields would last much longer."

"Noted. All fighters, focus on the undersides of the small fighters. Fall back, while firing on those pirates, and let's hope that the pirates get caught in the enemies fire."

The Star Cruisers focus their turbolasers on the Inferno while falling back, trying to put the Infernro and the Hades between the Wrath Cruisers.

1. The Millennium Falcon
2. 70 A-Wings
3. 3 MC80 Liberty type Star Cruisers
4. 54 X-Wings
5. Viscount-class Star Defender

The Bushranger

2010-02-19, 11:05 AM

Lower Right

One of the Wraith Cruisers is speared end-to-end by a railgun round, and explodes in a blast of radiation and fury, signifiying an unlucky crew...

Two of the other cruisers begin to concentrate their fire on one of the Star Cruisers, blue energy bolts lancing across the blackness of space in a nearly continuous bombardment, alternating shots between one ship and the other, pounding down its shields with clinical speed and despatch.

The remaining Cruiser turns its attention torwards Inferno, its energy cannons blazing as it engages an intercept course directly torwards the pirate vessels...

Its captain noting the 'flags' and deciding that only one group of people here gets to skeltonise its enemies.

The fighter duel continues, the nimble Darts falling in some numbers to the capital ship guns and the fighters, but taking out as many as fall, occasionally one exploding in a brilliant nimbus of energy as Taim & Bak laser fire bisects them....

Lower Left

...as, having noted the exchange of fire, the Hive suddenly starts a turn torwards the engagement, and starts launching more Darts.

LOTS AND LOTS of Darts.

--

"Termination? I don't particularly care for the sound of that..." Captain Anderson mutters, shaking his head, and directing his ships to power up the interceptor grids, just in case, even as the White Stars start drifting in the direction of the engagement, their scanners working overtime.

--

The transmission of Admiral Ta'lok's gets the attention of the remaining two ships present, who, having negiotiated a tenative alliance between them, concur that taking out the pirates would be a good place to start...

The more organic of the two activates its drive (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aIpumua3zuE)and vanishes, while the one that looks suspiciously like an Old Earth battleship begins to move forwards as well, in a more stately, yet somehow more menacing fashion.

Fleet List:
1 Wraith Hive }
3 Wraith Cruisers } Darts (12% losses)
Yamato } Comso Tigers
Talyn
2 Victory-class Destroyers + 4 White Stars

EleventhHour

2010-02-19, 04:43 PM

Top-ish

The wormhole widens, absorbing the majority of fire, while flickers of fire shot skip off the GC's shields...

Bottom-Left

And a counter-point wormhole opens, absorbing a asteroid nudged into position and forced through by the corvettes...

Top-ish

That exits the Wormhole just as the GC enters, a very mind-warping sight for those on the side, that would look like the elongated cruiser is diving into the emerging rock... And with a pop, the massive stone tumbles forward, toward the Borg Sphere, and the cruiser is gone.

Bottom-Left : Or whereever the heck that fight is.

To cheerfully appear where the rock was, powering forward from the field of tumbling rocks. And unleashes a salvo of missles indescriminately at the combat, it's hull uncloaked and glaring bright in the off-red light, picking out the finely shaped "scales" of the armour plating as it begins a dive in the relative Solar "Down."

The, hopefully, undetected twelve corvettes that were down there scatter, firing a few torpedos of thier own, and running at full tilt, weaving around the asteroids.

Darkcomet

2010-02-19, 06:09 PM

Top Station

The Executor quickly targets the asteroid headed for the Borg Sphere with a large turbolaser barrage. If Episode V is any indication, the asteroid will be destroyed before it can reach the Sphere.

Meanwhile, Sovereign has allowed the Borg to perform a partial assimilation of its outer hull, but not granting the Collective control over the Reaper's systems. Sovereign's hull now benefits from Borg structural regeneration, as does Executor's, if that wasn't obvious.

Sovereign also allows, or rather orders, the Borg to examine a certain characteristic of Reaper technology... And reproduce it in the Sphere and the assimilated Executor.

I wonder what that means...

Fleet List
1 Executor-class Star Dreadnought- Executor- Assimilated/???
1 Borg Sphere - ???
1 Reaper Vanguard- Sovereign - Amplified with Borg structural regenration
Standard Executor Fighter Complement (TIE Interceptors/TIE Bombers) - Assimilated
20 Missile Boats - Assimilated

UncleWolf

2010-02-20, 12:28 PM

Lower Right

The Hades turns towards the nearest Star Cruiser, unleashing another wave of missiles at it, trying to knock down the shield as it's shredder and Plasma cannon ward off the fighters. It's railgun starts to recharge...

Inferno, although it's under constant attack, continues on it's way, correcting it's course to get close to the Wraith Cruiser that is trying to intercept it. It's shields still hold as it's used to taking a lot more punishment from ships much bigger, even if it's surrounded. Once close enough (within a Kilometer), it will fire off boarding shuttles at the Wraith Cruiser.

Right

The final plug is set for the heavy shields and the station comes online. The next piece of machinery is brought on board...

ThePhantom

2010-02-22, 11:12 AM

Lower Right

With all the bombardment, one of the Star Cruisers explodes, taking out any fighters near it.

"Admiral, one of our Star Cruisers has been destroyed."

"Noticed. We're getting our people now."

The third Star Cruiser and the Star Defender move to rescure the other ships.
They launch their fighters into the flay, and focus their firepower on of one of the Wraith Cruisers.

1. The Millennium Falcon
2. 54 A-Wings
3. 2 MC80 Liberty type Star Cruisers
4. 43 X-Wings
5. Viscount-class Star Defender

The Bushranger

2010-02-23, 01:24 PM

Lower Right

The cruiser targeted by the Star Cruisers starts to show the wear of battle, explosions blossoming on its hull and its fire slacking a bit - but by no means stopping, as it and its companion continue to press onwards, energy pulses locking onto a Star Cruiser and pummeling it mercilessly.

Fighter combat continues, a wild furball developing around the larger ships, as X-Wings, A-Wings and Darts explode or spin wildly out of control from asymeticial thrust....

About one-quarter of the Darts on the scene of the battle, however, don't seem to be attacking. Rather, regrouping...

And suddenly they turn as one, going to full throttle and setting a direct, straight-line, high-speed course at the Star Defender.

These are the Darts whose cruiser, a moment ago, was destroyed.

And when Wraith pilots have their home ship destroyed, they go kamakaze.

[Also Lower Right]

The boarding shutttles get picked up in a hurry, and the cruiser switches its fire to point-defense, energy balls the size of small fighters streaking out to intercept them.

It's about this time the missiles arrive.

This Cruiser takes a direct hit to its right "wing", and its fire ceases, lights flickering as the blast disrupts the internal power grid.

The Darts from the Hive note this new threat, and promptly turn to intercept...

The White Stars remain in reconnasiance mode, their crews not at all sure what to make of the wild four-way furball.

[Right]

A flare of energy heralds the return of the armed Leviathian to normal space, and its massive cannon extends, power levels rapidly rising as it swivels to target The Kraken.

The 'battleship' is further away, but closing fast.

EleventhHour

2010-02-26, 09:13 AM

Lower Right

The Grand Cruiser, floating slowly out of the asteroid field, finally gets close enough for the inscribed marking to be read down it's side... 034TH Oh. Isn't that reassuring. The rings of torpedos shift as it reloads, at a slow precise speed outside of the threaten zone, and then with a spin like a flywheel, they unload hundreds of missles, leaving the heavier torpedos waiting for a closer threat.

...the target? The biggest thing on the field. The Viscount. In the meantime, the atom thin beams of a dozen lasers lance out invisibly, and attempt to "slash" through as many darts in one sweep as possible.

Darkcomet

2010-02-27, 09:38 PM

[Top]

The Executor is moving, likely prompted by the attack on the Borg/Reaper force. The Borgrified Star Dreadnought is headed toward the asteroid field, where it promptly begins targeting asteroids with turbolasers.

This has rather predictable results, destroying many asteroids. Any of the Erinyes Corvettes exposed by the asteroid purge will have turbolaser barrages sent their way.

Meanwhile, the Borg have integrated transporter technology into Sovereign and the Executor.

Fleet List

1 Executor-class Star Dreadnought- Executor- Assimilated/???
1 Borg Sphere - ???
1 Reaper Vanguard- Sovereign - Amplified with Borg structural regeneration/transporters
Standard Executor Fighter Complement (TIE Interceptors/TIE Bombers) - Assimilated
20 Missile Boats - Assimilated

UncleWolf

2010-03-01, 07:38 PM

Right

As soon as the enemy ship arrives, they'll see all 100 fighters deploying from The Kraken. The particle cannons on the ship also swivel towards the intruder.

The other ships align to protect the Carrier from the ship that is on it's way.

Meanwhile...

On the station, the second piece of machinery is put in, and it starts making...things.

Bottom-Right

The boarding shuttles go into evasive maneuvers, but a few are still hit. Huh, it's odd though. Only a few of those hit seem to be carrying people.

ThePhantom

2010-03-02, 10:34 AM

Lower Right

"Have the fighters stop those ships from hitting us. And move away from the large ships, head toward foward 45 degrees. And get the shields up to full power."

The wings contonate on the darts trying to hit the Star Defender, as the Star Defender and Cruisers start heading for the right, firing at the darts heading for them.

1. The Millennium Falcon
2. 44 A-Wings
3. 2 MC80 Liberty type Star Cruisers
4. 37 X-Wings
5. Viscount-class Star Defender

The Bushranger

2010-03-04, 04:34 PM

[Lower Right]

The damaged Wraith Cruiser restores propulson, and resumes firing, albeit at a somewhat lower rate than before, firing away at the closest Star Cruiser. While its comrade, being pounded by the Star Cruisers, suffers a secondary explosion, a plume of vapor, fiery at its base but rapidly snuffing out in the vacuum of space, showing the damage to be mortal.

Its crew, however, will not go quietly into that dark night, and powers their hyperdrive, a greenish-blue distortion in space shimmering, blossoming, then stabilising, the two remaining (of four) engines driving the cruiser into the hyperspace window...

Hm. Wonder what it's up to.

More and more Darts explode, both in duels with the fighters, from lucky missile and beam hits, and from the Viscount's point defense. About 9, however, manage to make it through, and slam, at about .45c, into the Star Defender's shields...

(Also Lower Right)

People or not carrying people, the boarding shuttles will continue to be fired at, the Wraith ship's gunners...deliberatly not allowing a clean sweep, but letting some get through.

After all, they won't say no to a free lunch, if the enemy is so agreeable as to send it delivery.

Meanwhile, the White Stars break off, heading for...

[Right]

...heading in this direction. Pirates are the one enemy everybody can agree on. (Even other pirates). And so they head...in the direction the Leviathan already is in, its Sonic Ascendency Cannon primed, aimed, and now firing (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BK1LvaUohf8) at The Kraken!

The space battleship following it swings its triple main shock-cannon turrets out, targeting a light cruiser, and firing, each turret's three beams fired in a rotating pattern that coalesces into a single, amplified beam, each lancing out at the cruiser's hull...

And, oh, hey, is that a Wraith Hiveship coming up behind it?

[Lower Left]

The two Victory-class destroyers remaining here finally power up their drives, and advance in the direction of The Kraken.

EleventhHour

2010-03-05, 09:53 PM

Lower Right

The 034TH pauses for a moment, then raises "up" in the spatial sense above the battle as a sort of overwatch, then begins raining missles on the ships below, mostly the Viscount for being the largest target, it recieves the first salvo of torpedos fired so far.

Surprise!

Well, the Borg-Reapers were looking for Corvettes, so they decided to have a little fun. Pinging random missles off the shields from the relative safety of asteroids, then fleeing. They don't really seem to mind that thier shots aren't doing damage, and they're mostly just trying to stay out of the line of fire...

Lower Right - Right - Lower... just the battle in General

And from blank space, to all but the most extensive of sensors, missles start flying. Never from the same spot, and even the contrails seem to indicate that the firing ships aren't moving in the same direction for more than a few seconds. No paticular targets, just misslefrenzy for everyone!

Darkcomet

2010-03-07, 10:05 PM

[Top]

The Executor proceeds as before, continuing to destroy most asteroids in the area and firing on corvettes that get revealed. Not much to note, so I just made this filler post so we could move on.

ThePhantom

2010-03-12, 10:45 AM

(Okay, someone needs to remind Wolfbane to post.)

UncleWolf

2010-03-12, 11:57 AM

((I'm sorry, but I've been having to deal with RL stuff a lot. Especially these past few days, making anything but short posts possible. I'll make a quick post in a moment, but I won't be able to do a very good one, so I apologize if I miss anything. Sorry))

UncleWolf

2010-03-12, 01:09 PM

[Right]

Talyn is able to blast open a part of the the hull, exposing a bulkhead to vacuum before the interior blast doors shut it off from the rest of the ship, killing any fires(and people) who had been there. It's a rather impressive feat all things considering. Especially since The Kraken is about 30 times Talyn's length...

The little ship will soon find itself being swarmed by one flight of Fighters and being shot at by The Kraken's plasma cannon while the others make their way to shoot down the Battleship.

As for the Light Cruiser Maelstrus, most of the energy beam is deflected, but due to some fault, some of the blast gets through, melting through the hull and reaching critical system, damaging the gravity drive. Before anyone on the ship can say anything, there is a sudden flash of blackness and all the ships nearby will be pulled a little closer together. The light cruiser is now adrift, half of it simply vanished as it's black hole became unstable.

Lets hope the battleship hadn't been too close.

As for the Hiveship, it's going to find itself the target of Cerberus' rail gun as well as finding The Fates turning towards it, it's rails crackling as colossal energies prepare to be released.

(It should be noted that Talyn and the Battleship will find themselves in the middle of the fleet.)

[Lower Right]

The boarding shuttles are now too close to be hit, and should slam into the ship on BR's turn.

[Right, Station]

The specially built bombs are boarded onto several shuttles, to be sent to different ships.

Fleet List

3 Dreadnought Class Fenrir Pattern Heavy Cruisers. (The Furies, The Fates, and The Nameless)
3 Titan Class Promethium Pattern Light Cruisers (Maelstrus, Cerberus, Hades, Inferno)
1 Poseidon Class Carrier (The Kraken) Lightly Damaged
100 Legion Class Fighters (4 Squadrons of 25, Hick's Hellcats, Waykle's Wolves, Joan's Jets and Alice's Adders)

ThePhantom

2010-03-12, 03:24 PM

[In between lower right and right]

As the missles and the darts fire around the ships, Admiral Ackbar makes a decision.

"We have to revise our battle plan, head to the center. Use the tractor beams as well as the turbolasers to clear our path."

And so, the Star Cruisers and Defender head for the centeral energy storm, using what they got to try and stay alive a little longer.

1. The Millennium Falcon
2. 40 A-Wings
3. 2 MC80 Liberty type Star Cruisers
4. 34 X-Wings
5. Viscount-class Star Defender

The Bushranger

2010-03-21, 01:10 PM

(Lower Right)

As the Star Cruisers start their turn to head to the centre, suddenly, only about 200 kilomters away from them, the greenish-blue distortion of a hyperspace window opens, and that crippled Wraith Cruiser emerges, its remaining engine (one of the two remaining having blown out due to the stress of the hyperspace jump) blazing full-throttle as it blazes in torwards one of the Star Cruisers.

The intent was to ram head-on. However the SCs' turn means this is out of the question now, however a sideswipe, on the other hand...

Darts, meanwhile, start exploding from missile hits.

(Also Lower Right)

The boarding shuttles arrive! Locking onto the remaining cruiser's hull, which they'll find is very thick, and...organic.
As if the Cruiser had been grown instead of built.

The cruiser, meanwhile, dodges missiles and keeps firing at the Star Cruisers.

(Right)

Talyn's defense screen starts absorbing hits from fighter weapons, however the plasma shots are of more concern. So it turns away from the battle and starts powering up for Starburst.

The space battleship, meanwhile, also turns, opening up with its pulse-laser AAA as its engines strain to pull it away from the sudden appearance of a gravity well.

The glowing of the railgun rails of The Fates attracts the attention of the arriving White Stars, which pull in for a particle-beam strafing run, even as the Hiveship takes a railgun hit to the right side, ripping a nice hole through it...but not showing too much collateral damage, surprisingly, as its own energy weapons, more powerful versions of those on the cruisers, open up, targeting Cerebrus.

(Lower Left > Right)

Those two vaguely squid-looking tri-winged ships continue on their way, their crews preparing...