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

[EleventhHour]

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]

[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

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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]

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]

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.

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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]

[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 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]

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]

[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]

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

[UncleWolf]

((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]

[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.


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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]

[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.

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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]

(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...

[EleventhHour]

Asteroids

Have you ever seen Macross Missle Massacre? Maybe the TVTropes page, if not the show itself? Think of that, millions upon millions of missles, rockets, torpedeos and multiplie warheads leaving trailers of white in the black abyss, the tubular bodies streaming closer, arching in from so many different trajectories that it seems more like a ring of incoming explosives, some going wild, or just missing in general... but there are still far too many missles to count, all converging on the Viscount.

Invisibly following behind, is a few dozen of the tiny corvettes, using the missles as cover for thier movment, and hoping the explosions will cloud sensors...

[Darkcomet]

[Top--->Plasma Storm]

The Executor retrieves its fighters and finishes blasting through most of the asteroids on the destroyable scale near the 'top' station.

The titanic dreadnought proceeds to move through the new clearing into the plasma storm, headed for the battle in the lower right...

The Executor is followed by Sovereign, while the Sphere remains behind, the Borg assimilating the main station and adding their own defenses to it.

I'll have more than filler posts soon, I promise!