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Originally posted by grunadulater: **is there any way to destroy mines?likee if your going to another system and you detect mines, can your dodge them or blow them up with out casualtys?
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could someone answer this?
------------------ I bet there darn tasty to.
Sisay looked out the window of his office, wachting as the people about him worked to place defenses up. He had recived word some hours ago that Racet had been taken by the Federation and given to the Kiran. The Kiran had long lacked a base to use as home and it would be great to hold. He detered a Arada near it and sent the pilot to check it out. Sisay was expecting his report any minute now.
Looking back he saw his desk com light up and an image of a human appear on the screen. Sisay walked over and said, Well James, what did you find out about it?
James grined as he reported. Captain, sir, weve been given jackpot. When the Federation left us the base, there were ships to go along with it. The shipyards there were filled with ships yet to be sold or launched. We have a count of twenty Crescent Warships, fifty Lazrias, and nearly one hundred Aradas of various configurations. There is enough equipment here to upgrade them if need be. Also it would seem the Federation is helping us to keep it.
Thank you, James. Make sure to tell the temporary warden there that Ill be there to take command of it. Also tell him to expect two dozen warships. With that, he cut the link.
He smiled at the discovery. It was a great gift to the Kiran, considering that they had lost their only base decades ago.
A Crescent Warship jumped into the Threefrog system, having made it before the mines were set. Yet for all things considered, it appeared lifeless. The ship looked in relative great condition with many upgrades, but she drifted closer to the planet. All scanners would indicate that weapons werent charged, her shields were down, and enginees lifeless, but all were indcated to work. Also there was no show of life signs aboard the ship.
An auto beacon sounded, saying simply this: This is the Kiran vessel Arteb out of Earth. To any and all friendly vessels, we are carrying aboard many data crystals holding vital information that could be of use against the Edien idiot race. I repeat...
Hawk looked at the interface as he piloted through the slipstream to Azdgari. There were many vessels within the system, and considering it was the Edien captial in this galaxy, was also very heavily fortified. Hawk didnt have to worry about being detected in slipstream as the Saer had been equiped with a modified scattering field. It was another thing once he jumped from slipstream however.
As Hawk twisted the controls to manuver into another corridor, he suddenly grinned. This would be fun indeed...
Two fighters were patroling a sector not far from a Edien Battlecrusier. The pilots were bored out of their skulls as nothing could ever get through the systems defenses. They were therefore astonished as a jump point from slipstream opened up and an Arada jumped from it. The alert was sounded and the two fighters were bearing down on it. The Arada headed towards the battlecrusier with great speed. As one pilot got closer to the intruding ship, he saw another flash of light to his left and saw something jump into a slipstream jum point. Looking back, he saw the ship he was chacing waver and turn into a missile. He looked back to see the point close and the pilot cursed. They had been tricked by a holo-projection. He looked back through his cockpit and let out a startling oath. A second later, two objects collided with the battlecrusiser: a missile and a fighter.
------------------ (url="http://"http://pub51.ezboard.com/fquillzfrm4.showMessage?topicID=10.topic")A Pilot's memory(/url) "Suppose you were an idiot and suppose you were a member of congress. But I repeat myself." -- Mark Twain
5 Interceptors, 5 Heavy Fighters, 5 Clippers, 5 Patrol Boats, 2 Destroyers, and 4 Freighters jumped into Deneba
"Kayans, we are coming with you to see what is in your galaxy. We have plans for our mines with us, as well as 3 Freighters that can lay some minefields, while the 4th one has a replication plant. We also have the plans for the rest of our technology, incase we can do some good with it. We await the opening"
----------- Arada Research and prototype construction:1 posts Ship-version mines:2 turns Refitting of ships:2 posts
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Originally posted by grunadulater: **is there any way to destroy mines?likee if your going to another system and you detect mines, can your dodge them or blow them up with out casualtys? **
You can detect them, but not dodge them. Long boring explanation on that however and I'm kinda busy right now. But sufficite (sp?) to say, the minefields, since they are deployed in hyperspace links which are relatively narrow, cannot be dodged. The mines have a very wide spread explosive radius.
------------------ If at first you don't succeed...Hit it harder! - Me -------------- Millennium. Its coming, prepare for it. Coming to the (url="http://"http://www.ambrosiaSW.com/games/ev/chronicles.html")EV Chronicles(/url).
carno, could you update the map to say that the ediens own dsn-2189? ------------------ I bet there darn tasty to.
(This message has been edited by grunadulater (edited 08-03-2001).)
MOD: Grundulator, post revoked. The minesweepers have sensors and some intellegent programming. They could easily distinguish between a real ship and a minesweeper. Even if you masked your ships readings as soon as a moderate sized mine blew apart your ship (either that or disabled it's hyperdrive, which is actually the main purpose for these mines. After the sub-space drive was disabled so abruptly and because of the way it knocks out the drive the ship would then be torn apart by the rapid decceleration) the sensors would then realize what it was and stop having all the mines explode.
Also, grundulator, you have until tommarrow to defend your bases that are being attacked by the Voinians near Miranu space. After that, Nova can take them over without waiting for your defense.
ok does anyone know where is rigadaz is? --- is thre any known posible way to get past mines without going around them. ----------- all ships from the systems of dsn-7903, namer, dsn-3930, smott, holmm, dsn-4533 and went to smott, creating a fleet of thier own.the fleet moved to the location of the vonian fleet and started attacking......they had erased all files from their computers on the planets so they couldnt be copied.
Originally posted by Nova6: **The battlecruiser was disabled, and captured by two Voinian cruisers, then towed off to the nearest Voinian base.
edien vessles self-destruct if they are disabled. ------------------ dreadnaught=17 posts station1=7 posts station2=7 posts station3=7 posts station4=7 posts vengence bomber=8 posts enhanced repulsor beam=2 posts
MOD: grundulator, Nova surrounded you. You couldn't escape. You have to stay and fight. Reinforcements were also blocked off.
Note - because I know Rima intended to send a fleet through to the old galaxy, I'll assume her forces arrived in Deneba and are there to proceed through the portal. She can decide the exact nature of her fleet (and whether she wishes to accompany it personally or not), up to about 25 ships (the most we can fit through in the limited time the gateway is open.
"Two minutes to subspace convergence," Thunder's science officer reported.
"Open a channel to the fleet."
"Yes, Prime Minister. Channel open."
"It's been six years since we arrived here," Thunder said, "in this very system. Since then we have labored hard to create a new society here for ourselves, and to finish the science necessary to reopen the gate. Today is the culmination of these six years - the day when we will finally be able to return to the Milky Way - a visit home. But we'll have to do it just right - get your ships into tight formation and be prepared to accelerate into the gateway as soon as it's stable. If we're all going to make it through in the two and a half minutes the gate stays open, we'll have to time it just right."
"One more thing -" Thunder added as an afterthought, "By the time we reach the other side, the gate will be closed. We'll have to wait for another subspace convergance on the other side before we can return through. This could take anywhere from a few hours to a few months, though most likely will be a week to three weeks after we arrive before we will be able to return to the new galaxy. ETA 30 seconds - everyone standby."
A few tense moments of silence ensued, both over comm lines and on most of the ships themselves, as members of six different races waited tensely to see the opening of a door to another galaxy. Finally, Thunder's science officer turned to face him. "Convergence forming, coordinates identical to those predicted. You can start the Spacial Flux Enhancer any time." Thunder complied, switching on the device. The space in front of the fleet began to waver, creating the appearance of a heat haze over a hot road. After a few seconds, Thunder flipped a second lever. A brilliant white beam of pure energy blasted forward from the nose of the Storm, impacting the hazy space head on. Light radiated outward, growing ever brighter, until a flash filled the system and a shimmering blue gateway was left in it's wake. Immediately, Thunder accelerated the storm forward, leading the fleet toward the portal.
"The gateway is stable," Thunder radioed to the fleet, "Everybody in!"
All the ships present moved forward in precise unison, in an amazing display of formation flying. With no more than five seconds to spare, the last Horoth ships crossed the threshold, and the gateway began to destabilize. From the bridge of the Storm, Thunder looked back as the planets of the Deneba system began to fade away into the distance. He was leaving the galaxy that had been his home for six years, and leaving almost all his people behind there.
In the Deneba system, awestruck azdara pilots looked on as the blue gateway radiated sparks of energy into the surrounding space, ending it's breif re-appearance in a flash, shrinking to a pinpoint of light before fading out all together. The gateway was closed once again, but a small fleet of ships was on their way to another galaxy.
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The Federation forces in Akrayhek were ordered to clear the rift zone and stay well back as some unusual energy readings were detected eminating from the rift. At that very same time, Thunder was straining to see Kayia out the front viewport of the Storm. Already the Proxima Nebula was in clear view, and it wouldn't be long now before they'd arrive. The journey had taken nearly five days, but they were almost there - just a few more minutes now. Having little success in his efforts, he sat back down in the captains chair, reflecting on all the events that had brought him to abandon his home on Kayia, and then to leave his new home to return to his old one, an incredible journey home spanning tens of thousands of light years.
"Look!" Akyna said, "I think I see the Kayan sun!"
"You're right," Thunder said, "I think that is our star."
"Then that bluish pinpoint over there is -"
"... Kayia," Thunder finished his sentence. As they looked on, that pinpoint grew to a marble, and then a baseball, to a basketball, and finally began to fill an entire corner of the viewscreen.
"Fifteen seconds to realspace," the navigator reported. Aboard all the fleet's ships, the refugees looked on impatiently, all immensly eager to see their home once again. Ahead of them a barrier seemed to cross through the uniform blue of the corridor - it was the gate on the other side.
The Federation vessels slowly drifted backward, wanting to leave room for whatever might be about to happen. "I'm reading energy spikes coming from the rift zone," one of the vessels reported. With little warning, the space of the rift zone ignited with a blue glow, and emitted a powerful flash, leaving in it's wake a shimmering blue portal. All the forces looked on as over a hundred ships, some familiar, some not, in shades of white, green, purple, and blue came pouring out.
"This is Prime Minister Thunder of the Kayan Alliance," Thunder said, opening a comm channel to the Federation fleet. "On behalf of the Kayans, the Renegade Alliance, the New Free Worlds of Zidagar, the Raiders of Azdgari, the Miranu, and our new friends the Horoth, it's great to be home."
------------------ Ad Astra Per Aspera - "A rough road leads to the stars"
Originally posted by grunadulater: edien vessles self-destruct if they are disabled.
MOD: That was background development authorized by me to be used at a later time.
MOD: Just note that the Igadzra Union would also send a fleet through, but since SilverDragon isn't around he couldn't state that.
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The Federation fleet, over 19,000 vessels, stood in awe as ships from another galaxy entered through the porthole. They had heard stories about this, had learned about it in Federation Military Training Classes, and now they got to witness what it would have looked like in Deneba six years ago.
Carnotaur stood on the bridge of the Red October, along with Scorcher (who was doubling as his second in command) and his dad Intimidator (who was doubling as a tactical office currently). Carnotaur recognized many of the ships, most of which hadn't changed much in the last six years. He saw ships from the Zidagar, the Igadzra, the Miranu, the Kayans, the Renegade Alliance (which were easily identifiable because of their silver hulls) and many other ships which he assumed were the Horoth.
Carnotaur fought back tears as he began to respond to the fleet. "This is President Carnotaur, leader of the Federation Alliance. Welcome back, old friends."
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Soon after the first greetings, while the main part of the refugee fleet was directed to join the Federation fleet, Thunder (and any other leaders that came along with the fleet, I'm not sure whether any other leaders came with him) was directed down to planet Kayia where the Red October was already heading.
Once both capitol ships had landed, Thunder was then escorted into a large meeting room, which overlooked the giant memorial that the Kayans had set up six years ago in memory of all the lives lost in the wars. As Thunder entered, he first noticed a plaque on the opposite wall with some words written on it:
May peace someday return to the galaxy, Shining light and new hope over the red horizon...
Then Thunder noticed who was standing by the meeting table and nearly made him collapse from surprise; Captain Carnotaur, along with his personal guards and advisors Captain Subterfuge, Captain Specter, and Captain LoneIgadzra.
Carnotaur walked forward. "It's a pleasure to meet you again Thunder," he said. Though Carnotaur tried not to show any signs of emmotion, Thunder could tell that he was on the verge of tears.
the fleet moved to igadzra.
(This message has been edited by grunadulater (edited 08-04-2001).)
The Revearence hurled through slipstream, with the Crusader and many other ships following her. That was when the message was recieved onboard the Revearence. Sisay was in his quarters sleeping when he heard a beep coming from his com. Sitting up he wearily said, "This is Sisay, go."
The face of his XO appeared on screen. She was human and a good first officer. "Sorry to bother you, Captain. I just thought you might want to hear this..." As Sisay listened, first with confusion and then joy. With tears whelling up inside him, he said, "Cathy, turn the Revearence around. Also tell the Crusader to pull along side us. Destination Akrayhek star. Maximum burn if need be."
The captain quickly dressed and headed towards the bridge, too excited to sleep.
Hawk turned and twisted through the slipstream, his hands on the controls. The Saer followed his lead, being guided along the way. The last jump had been exhilarting and funny to say the least. He would have to remember that manuver for future sakes. The slipstream gave way suddenly as a jump point opened. Hawk let the Saer jump into realspace and as she did so, the Kisani released the controls and brought up the light interface.
Asteriods flew past the Saer, nearly colliding with the ship. Hawk smiled gratefully; he was inside the North Tip Asteriod belt. This was the final thing, as no ship could ever pass through into such a thing as this place. This was a hidden star here, with many millions of rocks beyond millions of more. Yet Hawk wasn't intrested in the fact, he was just dodging asteroids. When he found a clear spot, which was rare, he pointed his ship towards the star of Kisa, which glowed silver. The light interface suddenly flared when a jump point was detected. It would be a long pilot at worse and a quick one at best. Hawk hit the interface and a jump point opened. This time it bore not the white of slipstream but a silver color instead. It was his final reassurence. His hands moved back to the manual controls and the Saer jumped into slipstream.
MOD: grunadulater, for the last time, post revoked. Stop trying to make all these methods for destroying the mines which are implausible! Just go through the minefield. You'll loose a lot of ships but you'll still have a lot of ships left over.
And no, your EWAT shield would not work because it does not protect the ship from sub-space disturbances, which the mines create. With all the disturbances in the hyperlink the ship would have been torn apart. There is also something like 50,000 mines in the slipstream link, you could never kill them all.
1800 fighters, 4000 destroyers, and 3000 BCs survived the mines.
I shall now continue from the point where the fleet slipstreamed through the link.
OOC: The Federation fleet is composed of:
2400 Azdaras 1000 Patrol Boats 3000 frigates 800 Light Cruisers 800 Battlecruisers
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The Federation fleet had detected the mines exploding and was prepared to meet the Edien fleet when they hyperspaced into Igadzra.
However, the Ediens were then met by a surprise. They ran into another layer of mines that the Federation had set up on the outscirts of the system as a backup. The Ediens flew into the minefield without having the vaguist notion that it was there and suffered moderate causalties and moderate damage to the fleet. As they recovered from the stunning blow delt to them from the mines, they were then met by a barrage of weapons fire which tore through the fleet and caused more casualties.
Then the Federation fleet charged the Edien fleet which had been thrown into chaos by the mines and the barrage of weapons fire. Charging forward, guns blazing, the Federation ships flew through the Edien fleet, colliding and ramming some vessels but mostly firing on the rest of them.
Then the second wave of Federation ships, the Igadzra defense fleet, charged the Ediens, catching them off balance. While the majority of the second wave charged the fleet, the rest of the defense fleet headed straight for the lead Edien ship. They screamed towards it, guns blazing. Suddenly, a Federate Light Cruiser was hit and carreened into the battlecruiser, tearing through it and breaking it in half.
Then a third wave of Federation ships, which had been on the opposite side of the system and had been firing their torpedoes as the fleet to use as artillary fire, moved forward, guns ablaze. The Ediens were shocked at the chaos of the whole situation and how well the Federation had conducted their defense move. The third wave surrounding the Edien fleet then moved in, picking off Edien ships one by one...
MOD: Um, grunadulater, not to sound like the bearer of bad news, but post revoked. When Carntaur gave me permission to do this, I forgot to ask his reason for doing it. Personally, I would see the firing of weapons into supspace very...unwise. If something like your weapon were to hit a mine, a big boom could occur and needless to say...by by ships. Sorry to have done this.
Whitehawk
grunadulater couldnt have blinked before half of his ships were gone.'from 27000 to 7000!'he thought.he cursed really loud.then he thought of the repulsurs. "fire repusler beams at all kamakazi ships"he told his crew.this fight would take a long time.grunadulater called the andromada galexy where he had left Vinfar, his first mate, in charge. "send another wave of ships.id say about 500000 fighters, 300000 destroyers and 200000 BC's.start mass producing.i want them over here in 3 days." ------------------ dreadnaught=16 posts stations=6 posts vengence=7 posts ------------------ I bet there darn tasty to.
"It's good to be back," Thunder replied, stepping forward to greet Carnotaur. "Kayia - It's just like I remember it. The memorial, the city, everything. I can't believe I'm back here to see it. Anyway, more to the point, let me fill you in on what's been happening in the new galaxy since we got there. We all settled in just fine, but discovered that it wasn't as deserted as we thought. We met up with the friendly Horoth, but there are threats there - a powerful and hostile race known as the Akrahd, as well as pirates who raid our settlements and destroy our ships. The RA have been hit especially hard. About three months ago, we discovered that our trip through subspace left an energy strand stretching from this galaxy to the new one. Periodically we'll be able to open the gate - it'll never stay open for long, but travel between our two galaxies should be possible, though the number of ships we can send through will be limited."
"We've got detailed records of everything worth knowing that's happened in the new galaxy since we arrived," Akyna said, stepping forward. "But what I think we're all curious to know is how the battle against the Ediens is going? We have brought new friends, and new technologies never before seen in the Milky Way. Is there anything we can do to help reclaim our home?"
Hawk piloted with great ease, as the corriodor of the slipstream was unusally calmer then most. The silver light that was the corrior attracked the Kisani as he flew towards the system of Kisa. After milineia of isolation, it would be found once more. And with it the key to driving back the Ediens. The thought filled his head with thoughts of peace. After all these years of fighting I can fianlly help...
The Kisani was deep in his reverie that he did not here the computer's voice at first. As he came to, he heard it however, and it frightened him.
"Warning. Slipstream barrier detected. Course cannont be changed as barrier is dragging the Saer into it. Brace for impact and nice knowing you. Rest in peace." Hawk's eyebrows rose in surprise. Must have been the engineers doing.
Hawk quickly let go of the controls and brought up the interface, trying to break from the drawing. This was not supposed to happen this way; the barrier shouldn't have appeared. But that wasn't his problem right now. Giving up with frustaion, Hawk quickly got up and headed for the small engineeing spot. He was a bit too slow. A slipstream ripple hit the backside of the ship causing it to flip nose down and up towards the barrier. As Hawk looked out the cockpit window, he saw a massive blot of silver and blue light: the slipstream part of the barrier that the Dark Ones had placed there. No ship had ever survived as they were either smashed to pieces or vaporized. Hawk quickly said a silent prayer to the Fate Alezin, guardian of Kisani his patron Fate, to guide him to the Place Beyond. The Saer hit the barrier and the force caused Hawk to fall. The Kisani's world darkened as he fell into unconsiousness.
BACKGROUND DEVELOPMENT:
The Edien fleet zoomed through the Atarari System on the Edien/Rarkyl border on it's standard patrol route. Suddenly, a massive Rarkyl fleet jumped into the system. "Oh my..." the Edien lead captain said as his fleet was hit by hundreds upon hundreds of missiles from the Rarkyl fleet which tore apart the Edien patrol fleet....
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(Message to Edien High Command) (From: Edien/Rarkyl Border HQ) (Encrypted) (We regret to inform you that the Rarkyl appear to be increasing the size and amount of their raids. Our estimates say that we will have to pull off about 500,000 ships from the fleet that is to be sent to the Milky Way to combat the Rarkyl raids. So far we have counted over 800,000 Rarkyl vessels attacking in numerous areas and more on the way. We will also be unable to send very much other reinforcements to the Milky Way. - Commander Sovar) (End Message)
Carnotaur smiled. "Well, overral, the war with the Ediens has been going fairly well, and almost all of our civillians aren't bothered much.
"However, what we haven't told everyone is that recently we've been having a shortage in ships and raw materials. We haven't been able to go on any offensives except for the latest one because of this. We need help; more weapons, more ships, more shipyards, and tons of raw materials.
"But, that has only been within the last two years. Before that we went on several offensives and were able to reclaim a few systems from the Ediens."
"What is the overral status of all our worlds?" the Miranu representative asked, "What's happened to places like Azdgari? Zidagar? Mira? Igadzra?"
Carnotaur stood still for a moment and then looked out the window at the memorial before finally turning back to Thunder and the other representatives. "Miranu space is a wasteland, there's almost nothing left. We never were able to get back and the Ediens have totally ignored it except for the fact that a good portion of the garbage their produce is sent off to Miranu space to be dumped. Overral, the condition there looks bleak and practically unrepairable.
"The Northern Crescent area seems to be where new Edien recruits in this galaxy are trained and is also a major shipyard area. Zidagar space is moderately defended but we don't know much more than that. Azdgari space is the most heavily defended sector and and over a million vessels guard it and the space where all the jumpgates that allowed the Ediens to come here reside. Azdgari itself has been reclaimed by the Ediens and is now used as their headquarters for the entire Milky Way operation.
"The only space we've really been able to do anything about is Igadzra space. We've taken back about half of all Igadzra space including Igadzra itself. We've also been able to free several thosand Igadzra slaves."
"What about the Voinians?" the Azdgari representative asked.
"They are doing well and at this very moment their forces are assaulting the Edien defense perimeter guarding Miranu space. They expect a great victory and blow to the Ediens in that offensive."
"What about the Igadzra and Kayan refugees which escaped into the Ji Nebula?"
"We haven't heard from them much. Only one or two messages were sent to us, maybe more were sent but didn't reach us. And our sensors haven't been able to penetrate the Nebula nor have we been able to send a scout fleet up there."