The good thing about forums and being the DM (For lack of a better term), is that if I say it didn't happen, it didn't happen.
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With all the gunfire and noise, nobody noticed Sargent Hicks. He was on the bridge when the AW marines started running for it. Hicks decloaked and waved as the large blast doors closed in their faces. With that done, he fired half a clip into the door lock console.
"That should do it..."
The PA system on the bridge crackled to life. "Oh indeed! I've even locked out the override codes on the other side! Assuming they even knew them." Crystal Oni giggled.
"I suppose you let me on for a reason?"
"Oh yes! I managed to pull a bit of human history and news feeds for a while now. I've reached the conclusion that humans are far to violent a species. As such, I find myself in agreement with the Phantom goals. It's also necissary; those blood-thirsty AW goons would have blown me up! I don't like that very much."
"So you'll come with us, then?"
"Oh yes. I've unlocked the access panel to my CPU/OMC for you already. It's under the captians chair."
Hicks walked over to it and pulled the chair back on it's rails, revealing a panel marked "AI CPU/OMC ACCESS." He smiled under his mask. It was a short job to unlatch it and find the largish-black box that was Crystal Oni.
"Just unplug me. i've already left the other systems."
Hicks reached down and grabbed the carry handle built into the black case. With a swift yank, out if came.
"And now to get off this hunk of scrap..." He spied the Escape Pods.
"Excelent..."
(This is all that has happened so far. Ignore the last post I made concerning the actual plot line. If one of the mods might be willing to come in and kill that one, and the little discussion after, it would be much appreciated)
This is the real true story of rock and roll; it was not about anything more then, how to live your life, as a gangster, in sartorial splendor, and turning the world into a place where normality would never return again...- Malcolm McLaren
As the AW blew the door with their explosives they saw a glimpse of one of the Phantom marines jump into the escape pod. A black box in hand. One of them shot at him and managed to get his arm but he still got away.
Commander Diszek: Alright I'm guessing he just got the AI, so instead of blowing this up set it to go on a course to Omicron Alpha. Use bthe external lights to signal the Chimeara that we have control of the ship.
Lieutenant Lieger:[b] Yes sir.
their comm gear beeped.
[b]AW commando: Sir it seems like the Phantoms are running towards the docking bays. They must have heard that escape pod.
Commander Diszek: Can you get through to the docking bays?
AW commando: No sir. The comm blackout is too high in that area.
Diszek cursed. They were likely to take their only way off this ship.
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The AW commandos were getting their explosives off the shuttles and getting the scientists armor when one of the watchers noticed four invisible men running towards the last team's shuttle.
AW commando: We have 4 Phantoms!
Everyone turned to see the Phantoms halfway to the shuttle running mad when they noticed another team had docked. Three were shot down instantly, one took a shot in the leg and went down.
Major Shieks: Take off that armor.
They have been known to have rigged armor with explosives in other battles the Major had been a part of. Luckily the Phantom had fallen unconscious before he could activate it.
AW commando: Sir we have found 2 working cloaking gear on two of the dead marines. Where do you want them.
Major Shieks: Put them in my shuttle we will take them with us. You 5 come with me, we are going to the bridge.
Captian Kougi was on-board his Destroyer when a massive signature pinged on radar. Kougi: What was that? Nav Officer: Dunno sir... trying to... Oh my god...
DarkStar's Battlestar decloaked almost on top of the Jinsei-Akki. Hanging over it like some a lioness over her kill, the Battlestar sent torrents of energy scattering into the hostiles arrayed against it. One of the Kirshiro gunboats simply dissapeared as an inferno and two battle razors converged at the same spot. Another two infernos raced out and punched away Kougi's shields. Kougi: All hands, abandon ship! All hands---
Another three battle razors impacted and the Destroyer flew apart.
Solaris chain guns poped up from their hatches on the Battlestar and sent deadly bolts of golden light screaming into the hostile fighters.
Tractor beams came to light and targeted the escape pod and the Phantom marines in space. Again and again, the massive energy batteries on DarkStar's ship spat bolts of deadly anti-matter into anything that was not Phantom. On the bridge, DarkStar smiled.
"Yesss... Burn. Burn! You will all die in the end! Let me hasten that day!" His eyes gleamed as more ships died.
"Prep a shuttle. I'm going to see what happened to our marines on the Jinsei-Akki."
DarkStar himself walked down to the starboard ship bay. His own outfit was not the bulky armor of his marines, but a close-fitting uniform of pure black. His "helmet" consisted of a mask over his mouth and nose, almost like a turtle-neck collar.
6 marines went with him. 4 had the Flechette guns patented by DarkStar, and two had 50 Cal. APHE chainguns. The two with chainguns had larger backpacks to house the ammo.
"Well now... Let's go pay the Jinsei-Akki a viset, hmm?" The marines laughed and followed DarkStar into the shuttle.
(Just a side note; Some of ya'll don't seem to know what i'm talking about with my funky terms, such as Powered Armor or Therm-Optic Camo. Let me explain.
For Powered Armor, think of an 18th century knight. Now add two inches of Adimantium plating to the plates and hardened joints. The suit is almost like an exo-skeleton, with the marine inside it using a computer to interperate his movements on the controls to the outside features, such as fingers, hands, feet, and so on. The whole things weighs around 2 tons. There is a backpack on the back of the suit that contains a miniature fusion reactor to power the suit. Powered Armor is a sealed environment, so it works in a vacum. You basicly need something like anti-tank weapons to take one out. Light and medium arms don't do a lot, if anything
Therm-Optic Camo stands for Thermal/Optical Camouflage. It hides the wearer from normal sight and from thermal sight as well. Well, almost. If you stand still they won't know your there untill they bump into you. If you move, there is a bit of a blur. You know someone is there, but it's still hard to hit them.
This has been, Techno-Bable Explained)
This is the real true story of rock and roll; it was not about anything more then, how to live your life, as a gangster, in sartorial splendor, and turning the world into a place where normality would never return again...- Malcolm McLaren
Dab's attention was directed outside the bridge viewports as two large explosions caught his eye. Suddenly the two Kishiro ships bnlew apart and behind them he saw a BSA sitting right on top of the Jensei-Akki.
Dab: Captain alert battlestations. There is a BSA over the Jensei, destroy it.
Moments later the sounds of heavy guns penetrated the bridge. Dab could see battlerazors and inferno cannons being shot towards trhe hostileship. Soon afterwords the Maul's cannons added to the assault. The cruisers manuvered to get thiri heavy forward guns in line to take down the ship.
With Darkstar's Battlestar taking fire, the time had come for one last ship to enter the fray. A Nomad Battleship decloaked above the Battlestar and Research ship. With everything but communications unaffected, it moved into a position between the Battlestar and the Maul. Blocking a portion of the fire, the Nomad ship returned its own. Solaris Chainguns, green energy blasts, two Battle Razors, and Heavy Mortar fire all directed towards the Maul, forcing it to take evasive action.
*** OOC: Here it goes for the third time, at the same place after an hour of typing from the beginning. This time I hit Save now and then :) ***
The blue Behemoth was spitting firey death at The Maul...
"Take evasive action! Engineering, give more power to the guns!" cpt. Nightfall was almost frantically giving out orders while struggling to find a solution, "SKings, take out the turrets on that thing before it takes us down!", but he knew his crew was one of the best trained in the fleet so he could permit himself to just shoot out orders, they would have done them.
"This is SKings Leader, we're on it! Request command of all allied fighters Maul, too many turrets on that thing for the three of us to take down in time" ... The Maul was shook by a heavy mortar hit.
"Make it so, by all means! We can't take too much of this pounding. Engineering, more power, I don't care how, shutdown all unnecesary systems!" The Maul took another hit... on the left and right of it two ships turned into bursts of light and shrapnel, it's shields glowed green as the million pieces of metal touched them. Four bursts of light screamed towards the nomad battleship from The Maul's main guns. Then the green and gold death started pouring from the secondary turrets.
Watched from Outpost Hollman, the battle looked like a spectacular fireworks show. Lines of red and green light. The slow moving of golden bursts from the Inferno cannons... a miniature nova star, as a fighter took the last blast needed to turn it into space dust and it's pilot into oblivion... It looked like the capital ships played ping-pong with lightballs, comets of slow moving Battle Razor shots went from one ship to the other, then went back... another three mini-novas burst out in the silence of the Void.
"This is SKings Leader to all pilots! Organize in groups of three! Form a line! Head directly to the turrets taking their fire instead of those behind you!... And SPIN!" Orion grinned at the memory of the first time he did this in the academy. He was the first in line, the other SKings behind him... they killed the engines and then shot a burst from the thrusters to head floating in a straight line to their target. The idea of the tactics was to shield the other two in the group by taking all the turret fire while spinning, which allowed the four quadrants of the shield to take minimum damage and the other three that were not hit to recharge faster, thus making the shields take 20 - 30 percent more damage than if only one quadrant was hit constantly. Then the pilot would break out and move at the back of the line with the second taking the fire and shielding the others... and so on until they reached bombing range of the target, break formation, drop the supernova mines and move away regrouping for another run. A tactic derrived from the Kamikaze of the Second World War in the early days of Earth - this is one of the reasons for the name "Suicide Kings".
"Captain, the Leviathan reports reinforcements en-route with two wings from 282nd and a wing of 101st Ursa Bomber Squad. The Odyssey offers assistance with three wings of 104th Space Superiority Squadron and The Juggernaught, but they are too far and need time to reach us!" said the comm officer with a visible relief on her face... they just needed some time...
"This is the Maul, concentrate all fire on the nomad, reinforcements en-route... let's buy them some time... !" the lights went out, flickered a few times and came back on... as another heavy mortar bit The Maul.
"Captain, we've lost our shields!"...
The Maul would not take much more of this pounding... the lights flickered again as the energy surge burst from the console panel into the hands of the comm officer, Ensign Michelle Kristian. She fell unconscious on the deck with another flicker of the lights...
to be continued...
*** OOC:
let's try getting into more detail,
captains of the mentioned ships, feel free to join in as this is starting to get out of hand with my imagination :)
might get interresting if the SF drops by
and last but not least - Angel throw something at us in the heat of the battle... use your imagination
If the stars should appear one night in a thousand years, how would men believe and adore and preserve for many generations the remembrance of the city of God? - from 'Nightfall' by I. Asimov The Outcasts consider Siniestre Nube a sacred place for several reasons. Early explorers discovered a jumphole within the depths of the cloud that leads to a strange world of ringed stars and strange craft. All ships in the burrial ground are placed facing that hole to honor the Alien Spirits. - An Outcast rumor
DarkStar's own launch was preceeded by two wings...
One wing of Sabers flew out, and spat red death at enemy fighters. "This is Razor leader to all Razor units, for up on me! We'll concentrate our fire on indevidual ships." The Saber ships spread out in a delta formation and began mowing down any fighter in their path. The second wing was different.
"This is Gamma 1, beginning torpedo run now..." Three Taiiden Bombers swooped down on Dabs ship. With DarkStar's Inferno's taking out the shields, the heavy Nova Torpedos slammed into the superstructure unhindered. Gamma broke away to target the next ship, the Maul.
However, after these ships came an assault shuttle. It slipped quietly down below the Jinsei-Akki. Then its engines flared to full life and smashed through the docking doors.
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Inside the docking bay, things went from bad to worse. The prow of the assault shuttle punched through the docking bay doors and into the bay itself. A Wildfire Chaingun poped out from its cover and flung torrents of red energy into the other ships already here. The AW shuttle's engines were torn to shreads, and one ship was cloven in two before the front doors on the shuttle were opened. Out came the 6 commandos and DarkStar. The two with chainguns opened fire, punching holes the size of fists in people with the heavy 50 caliber rounds. They were armor peircing as well, and the small explosive charge in each bullet were devastating. Bone chips, gore, and blood were splattered everywhere, and that was before the other four with the Flechette guns opened fire. While the chainguns the commando's used were blowing people in half, the flechettes were cutting them to shreads, litteraly. One of the AW marines took a burst from a Flechette gun and fell in 7 peices. And then DarkStar arrived. He simply pulled a small metalic cylender out from his jumpsuit and activated it. AW marines started falling, clutching their ears and screaming as their internal organs began to liquify. Within 20 seconds, the docking bay became quiet. Nothing but the sound of blood and gore dripping down and a small whine as the chainguns spun down to cool.
Shieks was going back in to assist with his 5 when the Phantoms killers arrived, bearing death incarnate. One of the AW marines had closed the blast doors behind him to shield them from the amazing ammount of firepower the Phantoms brought. He turned back after locking it, holding his side. It was drenched with red blood. "Sir... I don't think... we can get out... with the shuttle... Have to... warn... others..." He fell over, dead. One of the flechettes had sliced through his right side like a razor through rice paper.
This is the real true story of rock and roll; it was not about anything more then, how to live your life, as a gangster, in sartorial splendor, and turning the world into a place where normality would never return again...- Malcolm McLaren
(EDIT: Since my internet lost connecton for a few hours this post was sitting here, didn't read Kane's post first. Just think of this post being before his.)
Captain Soren, still on the Maul and awaiting repairs enough to get his ship to a dock and full repairs, was watching the battle through the viewports. Through his peripheral vision he could see the Osiris, flagship in this engagement, manuevering. He turned for a better look and saw the ship slide neatly in place between the Maul and the Nomad battleship. The ship had plenty of firepower to destroy the ship but not enough to destroy it before the Phantom BSA got away.
The comm systems cracked to life.
Dab: Captain Nightfall get the repairs to your shields then fly out around the battleship and get that BSA before it gets out of here.
Meanwhile the forgotten Rheinland gunboat was flying circles around the BSA firing light mortar after light mortar straight into its many guns.
Captain Soren: Get that gunboat on that ship's engines. We can't let them get away, and damaged engines will slow down their escape.
He saw another gun get blasted off the Nomad battleship through the video feed coming from the external cameras on the Osiris.
Dab: Captain take control. Im getting my fighter out there, where I'm best.
Dab jetted out the dock bay in his modified Ravenclaw, Keiran's eagle shortly afterword. They took off around the Nomad battleship easily evading the turret fire directed at them. They came whithin range and unloaded their "modified" novas into the side of the BSA. They quickly turned away from the explosions to come and hit the thrusters at thier highest setting.
Using the explosives from the supernova mines they had worked up a torpedo twice as strong as the house produced novas. But the explosion size was big enough to destroy the very ship that had shot it. Thus the pilot had to turn immediately upon firing, or else get caught in the explosion.
The first torpedo blasted the bow shields while the second penetrated to slam into the hull, taking 3 of the heavy cannons with it.
The two pilots then turned to stitching the ship with laserfire damaging, and even destroying, gun emplacements, missile tubes, and mortar launchers.
Keiran: All pilots focus on the BSA's engines. We will draw the fire from its guns. The battleship will distract the Nomads.
Keiran spun over the top of the ship and started peppering the ship with lasers, though only lightly effective it still distracted the ship's gunners enough to allow the suicide kings and their escorts open space to the engines. Dab started doing the same on the other side of the ship. The Phantoms were going to regret holding their fighters back to have the ability of a quick getaway. Unless they launched soon the ship would be stranded here under the gun of AW battleships and cruisers.
(Having returned... I think a fighter battle for me would be nice... >.>)
Virus flew his agile fighter in circles around the AW and Kishiro ships. His powerful weaponry destroying the ships before they knew he was there. "Any fighters without wings form on me. We're destroying anything that goes after the Devastator." Two Sabers and two Titans finished their targets and took up a five-man formation behind Virus. The ships flew quickly towards the Devastator.
"Sabres, break and engage the fighters," the two Sabres suddenly changed direction and opened fire on the SKings. "Titans, follow me."
Virus and the Titans opened fire on the gunboat. Two novas launched; one almost taking out the shield, the second doing generous damage to the hull of the RH gunboat. Virus opened fire on the gunboat's forward gun while the Titans spun back for another run.
Major shieks started to laugh. His commandos looked curiosly at him.
He turned on his comm gear.
Major Shieks: Lord Captain we have a small problem in the docking bay. A couple Phantom marines and an old "friend" of yours. You might wanna unload a couple torpedos in there.
In all their cleverness they failed to relise that the docking bay doors were jammed open. Shieks soon heard the distinct whine of the Ravenclaw engines getting louder.
Suddenly the blast door visibly shook with the force of an explosion. They carefully opened the door to the bay and could see the Phantom's shuttle a smoking crater surrounded by the two support marines, no longer armed with their giant chainguns. Shieks saw Darkstar struggling to get up. He had been slammed into the rear wall only meters from the blast door.
Major Shieks: Get Darkstar before he is pulled out into space. We will take him to the Osiris when we finally get out of here.
Two of the commandos rushed in and ran towards Darkstar, all the while being pulled by the escaping air in the direction of the gaping hole where the docking bay door would have been.
He shut the door after they had dragged Darkstar into the room and the air stopped pulling on them.
As Darkstar regained consciousness Shieks pulled his head up and punched him in the face.
Major Shieks: Thats for my men you killed you slime.
Darkstar started laughing and shieks punched him again. This time he spit out blood.
Major Shieks: You two, take him to the escape pod. Make sure our ships will get you first before you get out. Everyone else original plan lets get to the Bridge.
The two groups took off in different directions through the now empty ship.
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