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Rahzio made his plans for attack. Huan would be victim. He contacted his Chief War Factory and said to send 30 fighter ships and 1 dreadnought to Huan to attack.
The station on DSN-114 was finished. It was now his. The mech ships were continuing to work on the station. Rahzio ordered for the ships that delivered the mechanics to DSN-114 to return to Huron and leave the mechanics there working on the station.
The Tech minister had begun research on an Nuek missile that would be 50% more devastating than it currently was.
The fighters were on there way to Huan.
***Message to Azdgari: I am sending an ambassador to meet with your ambassador at a distinguised location
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"Are the other assorted warships ready?",asked Rahzio to the War Admiral. "Yes,I am sending 20 sharks and warcruisers combined to follow directly behind the fighters".
The assorted ships followed directly behind the fighters on their attempt to capture Huan.
OOC: yeah... i had a really long post made out a few minutes ago, but for some unknown reason, it didn't post when i clicked for it to. i clicked back on my browser to bring up the page again to re-post it, but all the text was gone. needless to say, i was pretty pissed off about that... basic summary of what i said: My character's name is Z'tar, 2nd in command of the Zidigar government. He's thoughtful and reflective about his life and the lives of others. His ship's name is Spirit, short for the Spirit of Zidigar. On his way to his destination, he sent a message to the Miranu Alliance:
(To the leaders of the Miranu Alliance) (I believe we need to discuss and alliance between us. Our friendship would be both benefitial to our technologies and our peoples' safety in these hard times. I'll send a diplomat as soon as I recieve a reply from you on these matters. May light always shine on the Miranu Alliance.)
sorry for the shortness of this post; my first one was much longer.
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Technology research: Hyperdrive engines for all Zidigar vessels. 7 posts.
------------------ "Given a long enough timeline, the survival rate of everyone drops to zero." ~Fight Club
OOC - Rahzio, you can't just post three times in a row like that, and there's no way in Hell that you can get to DSN-114, unless I'm seriously mistaken. There's a Coalition fleet in your way. But, oh well, I'll just have to blow the blazes out of it. And if you're considering reinforcements, I'll want a route.
Noting just to help me keep track...at end of post, four dreadnoughts in DSN-114, two dreadnoughts in DSN-4548, one dreadnought in Feviry.
Red, the whole point of my tactical retreat is that you couldn't capture any soldiers. I'm not about to retreat and leave important people around for you to capture.
And waiting for Confed and Miranu reply...please, Red/Rahzio, don't throw me out of line before they can get a chance to reply. It's annoying when just because someone's not around, something doesn't happen.
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Coalition of Worlds Location: Sol
"In other news, a pirate fleet has slipped through to DSN-114. We do not currently know if they are still there, or what they are doing, but the President has assured us that the Coalition shall move on this base immediately. Victory is assured."
Takyr turned off the Coalition news. He was an admiral who would be dealing with whatever was found in DSN-114 in just a few days. Luckily, Admiral Paryne was reported to also be coming along, who Takyr knew personally. With two dreadnoughts moving towards DSN-4548, there were also two other dreadnoughts (player ships), that would be coming along.
The combined force of four dreadnoughts, along with the defence fleets from Yandros and Verril, totalling seventy ships, would easily crush the forces in DSN-114.
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Location: DSN-114
The beginning of the Freedom Campaign, as it was beign called on Coalition news, was a bloody one. The Coalition's fleet entered the system, and found two fleets, and a recently built station - of limited worth, due to it's rush speed. The Coalition kept together, and attacked the pirate's fleet.
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Location: Feviry
The admiral in command of the C.S.S Freedom sighed. It appeared that he had more harm than good.
(From the C.S.S Freedom, Coalition) (To Feviry)
Firing upon us would be sheer folly. You would not last out the month. However, I will respect your ultimatum, and we will leave your system.
(end message)
With that, the C.S.S Freedom turned and left for Thoso.
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Location: DSN-4548
The two dreadnoughts, with their twenty ship escort apiece, entered DSN-4548. There were no Azdgari ships there, yet the station remained. Thus, with some irony, Coalition marines docked the station and also rigged it to explode, this time on remote control. They didn't put the shields up, because they had no need for power drain. They made sure the sensors were working, which they were, and then left.
(OOC: Red, this is exactly what I'd planned, by the way)
Coalition of Worlds R&D; Operations
Starstorm Missile ETC: 10 posts
Graviton Collector ETC: 29 posts
Gnasher Missile ETC: 7 posts
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OOC: Where is Mercenary HQ?
OV walked into the the space dock where his ship, Crusader stood. "OV!" A man shouted running towards him
"Maik? Is that you?"
"Who ese would it be?"
"Oh it's great to see you man, after we worked together in the Zachit. So how have you been, what are you doing now?"
"I've been roming around, scrounging up a few bucks. I see you're a Merc now. Lose your position with the Zachit when they combined?"
"Yeah, no big deal. Mercs make ood money. I'm looking for a hire now. Hey! Care to join me? We can work together"
"Sure, i'll go get my ship and i'll meet you among the stars."
"See ya in a bit"
OV and Maik seperated as they walked to their ships. A man in the shadows watching them quickly ran down a corrider......
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Paul sat for a moment after listening to the Coalition's proposal. "Yes, I do believe that an alliance would be benificial for both of us. I believe that we should keep this quiet however, as some races may see this alliance as a precursor to war. The last thing we want to be responsible for is the starting of a second inter-galactic war. Quietly, we will allow you to have access to our laboratories for research purposes if you give us the blueprints for your ships." Paul waited for a reply. ------------------------------------- (Courier Message) DST:Merc OGN:Mnu
We shall see what jobs we may have for you. I do not believe we have anything of particular interest to a commander of your abilities. If you wish, we will pay you to take out the Renegade base at Hrekka. If you do accept to do this job, we will pay you fifty million credits to....sterilize the surface of the planet. (END)
------------------ "Take me to your dealer"-Bumper sticker "You may not throw things at my dragon!" "We remove the furry killing things. We think only of removing the furry killing things."-The Skies of Pern, Anne McCaffery
Coalition of Worlds Location: Dogover
"...and thus, we must fight for our freedom, and destroy the Azdgari's empire!" proclaimed the Coalition President to the assorted people who had come to listen to his speech. He stood outside, on a large platform, and thousands of people stood hurrying, hushed, to listen.
In fact, Jeynek Coral was most likely the only person who wasn't taking in by the president's imbelic speech. The point could have been made in a five second declaration over Coalition news, or even a planted rumour, but no, the president had wanted to make a speech.
Jeynek Coral was not the type of man to argue with the pathetic excuse of a president. As long as it was him who was pulling the strings, it didn't matter.
The tall, white haired human turned and left from his vantage point, the balcony of one of the state houses - his, actually - and went to his command room.
The state house in which he lived was a beautiful, traditional, home. The command room was bathed in green light, with holographic images of various important military areas and a wide console with a shocking amount of keys. It was empty, as usual.
Coral quickly sat in his usual seat. "I want a list of all noteworthy mercenaries previously of Zachit origin," he stated firmly. A holographic screen flashed up in front of him, with a long list of names. At the top of that list, was a man named Overrider. A mercenary who had been responsible for the destruction of The Rock.
Coral smiled. This was just the man he needed.
(From the Coalition) (To Overrider, Mercenary)
We are interested in hiring you for a mission. Our target is primarily the pirates, secondarily the Azdgari. Minimal risk; dreadnought escort. Payment to be discussed upon arrival at Pax.
-JC
With that sorted, Coral considered the situation with the Azdgari. The plan was to have DSN-114 rigged for explosion, but with the Azdgari's retreat, the chances were that they had done the same. He decided to ignore that for now.
The current line of technologies the Coalition was researching, Coral had realised, was looking the wrong way. Right now, no-one could care less about missile type or energy collection. There wasn't enough time for that. He decided that once the president had finished his silly speech, he was going to make sure he changed the R&D; Division's areas of research.
The next matter he had to consider would be what to do about the pirates himself. He had something of an idea for that.
Location: Iothe
The C.S.S Freedom, a Coalition dreadnought, and it's escort of twenty ships, had been heading back from Thoso when the Freedom's captain received a message from someone he knew; a man named Jeynek Coral.
They then broke off and moved towards Iothe. Upon entering the system, they quickly fanned out to engage the defenders.
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Outpost Construction - small monitoring outposts, unmanned (no-one will know that), filled with explosives (nor that) Total: 0, ETC: 5
Dreadnought Construction Total: 8, ETC: 8
aPort - advanced starport, allows components for stations or dreadnoughts to be constructed faster, knocking construction times by 1 post for stations, 2 for dreadnoughts. ETC: 6 posts
(Message to SilverDragon) (From OV) I would be pleased to join you. I will meet you at Dogover (End)
As OV and Maik met, OV messaged him from his Blade Heavy Fighter. "Sorry Maik, it doesn't seem like this is going to be a 2 person job. Sorry man."
"It's ok, I don't think I was up for another warfare career."
OV flew away and just before he turned off the comm link he hear Maik say something, "What the hell?!" Maik yelled. OV looked back at Maik and he saw an Avenger Frigate right ontop of Maik. The Frigate opened fire pummling Maik. Maik sent out a distress signal. "All ships please respond! I am under Attack! I am under Atta-" A bright flash of flames filled space as teh Frigate shot off into hyper space leaving only small chunks of Maiks ship.
OV stared out the view screen, his face pale and as he shot off for Pax Station he vowed to kill that man.....
Red: If the "graviton collector" actually took mass (ie. Fuel) away from the star, then it might shorten its life. If it is only collecting light energy, the star has already lost mass and converted it to energy. It would not shorten the stars life
Overrider: There are at least two mercenary operations in this scenario. Mine is based out of the planet Poch in the Zimla system.
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Originally posted by Admiral Benden: (Courier Message) DST:Merc OGN:Mnu
Originally posted by mamajama: ** Overrider: There are at least two mercenary operations in this scenario. Mine is based out of the planet Poch in the Zimla system. **
Which means.......?
Sorry, I havn't had time to read every post. I missed about 20. Esponer helped me out with a good amunt of it but not all
Originally posted by Overrider720: **Which means.......?
Sorry, I havn't had time to read every post. I missed about 20. Esponer helped me out with a good amunt of it but not all **
You'd have to ask Red. We IM'd back and forth about me being a mercenary and where I'd be, and ended up being based out of Zimla and Nemnel. Maybe that means that you are, too, I don't know. The scenario I've got going is that I'm one of a number of Mercenary/Farmer families with estates in the system. You could do the same, if you want.
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"The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds the most discoveries, is not 'Eureka!' (I found it!) but 'That's funny...'" --Isaac Asimov
Espilot leaned back in his chair at the Naval High Command on Tumni. He had been viewing some designs for a new gadget for Zidigar ships, that would help nicely with his future plans. Since the R&D; was only on the other side of the small moon, Espilot opened a direct channel through the comm. "Kenel? This is Admiral Espilot. I'm sending some outfit designs over. I'd like the prototype done relatively soon, since it shouldn't be too hard." "Yessir Admiral." In his desk was a long, thin slit, into which he put his designs. Inside a small computer scanned them and sent the exact data to another such device in the Head of R&D;'s office, which printed out the design. -------------- Project 'Star Shield' A simple solar panel that converts solar light into energy which, instead of being used for fuel, is used for energy shielding, or can be stored for other uses. TUC: 4 posts
OOC: What's ETA mean?
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ESPilot: ETA stands for Estimated Time of Arrival.
Saraine was in conference with Rasael; Raven was "currently unavailiable right now", as her secretary said. "Friend, we're becoming a power, or we will be soon." Saraine told Rasael. "Yet we remain nonaligned, and our fleets remain small." "So, what should we do about it? Build more shipyards?" "Perhaps... but right now, I need you to design a modular weapons pod, one with plenty of weapons ports. Automated. That wasy, we can easily increase the firepower of our vessels ... and we could use them for system defence." "An excellent idea, Saraine. Why do you always come up with all the good ideas, friend?" "Residual radiation from the Battle of Gadzair, possibly." "Well, I'll get started... it ought to take a few weeks to get a prototype (8 posts)."
--- ETA until Phased Beam reverse engineered: 6 posts ETA until weapons module complete: 8 posts
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OOC: Overrider, I dont think the Dark Angels need a SiC, so you have a choice. Work as a partner of mamajama, or be a mercenary that bands the independant worlds together. If you want to control the independants, wait until I set them up. ESP, ETA means Estimated Time of Arrival. ETC means estimated time of completion. Mamajama, Mass=Energy, ever heard of E=mc^2? Energy = Mass x Speed of light^2. Any reaction, the shot of a gun, the gas burning in your car, literally turns minute amounts of mass into pure energy. A Energy vacuum would demand vast amounts of energy, and in turn, would cost mass. (your physics lesson for the day. Ask any Physicist, he/she'll agree. Ask any Chemist, he/she'll think im insane.)
Background Development: The Coalition scout fleet commander was lazily issueing orders... "Full speed ahead, on to the next system." "Yes, sir." As the fleet of warcruisers and sharks exited hyperspace, something strange was picked up on radar.. "Sir, We're picking up large life-signs in the next system... What should we do?" "Jump into the system, we'll check it out. It's probably a freightor that blew up and ejected it's crew into space." All the marines around suddenly got a disgusted look on their face as they tried to get that image out of their mind. "Entering hyperspace now, Cap'n." The wave of hyperspace flowing around the shields was an eerie sound, that most captains and pilots got used to early in their career, but for some reason, it seemed to have a different tone to it.. The captain didn't say anything, but a chill passed over the crew.. The engineer on bridge didn't even say a word as the ship exited hyperspace.. The crew was shocked when they entered the system. Empty. Except for a few asteroids, there was nothing. No debri, no hyperspace engine residue, no nothing. "Sir, there's nothing here..." "Oh I can't see anymore! I can't see a thing!" "Sir, whats wrong?!" "It was a blinding flash of the obvious!" The captain slapped the officer across the head. He hit him harder than he meant to, and he fell, and most of the officers rushed to help him, even the captain. It was too early in his career for him to be court marshalled. "Wake up!" The captain shook him, the officer didn't respond. Suddenly his eyes slowly opened, and everyone on the bridge released a heavy sigh of relief. The officers eyes opened wider, and he spoke. "That's what you get for hitting an offic- his eyes went blank. It was like he was looking out the front of the ship into space. The captain reached to hit him, and the officer suddenly looked extremely afraid. The captain felt bad a second. "Relax, son. I wont hit you." "I-.. I- dont care about that.... look....." The captain slowly turned to look out the front bridge, and he couldn't see out. He suddenly realised that the stars were covered up by something etremely close by. "Sir, there's a large electrostatic field in this system. It's weak, but our messages can't go through." "Damn.. What is that outside?" "I dont know sir, whatever it is, it has an unbelievable crew. It must be literally packed with live crew." "Or the ship is alive.." a new triad engineer noted. The captain was about to brush the idea off, until he realized it did make sense. He suddenly noticed that most of the fleet was unmoving. The stars suddenly showed again. "Sir, shields are down!" "How?" "We dont know. Must be all the electro-static around here, drained our shields suddenly" "That makes no sense at all.." "Sir!!! Hull breach in quadrant 5b! " "How's the armor regen?" "Poor, sir." "Direct all spare power to the armor regen." "Yes, sir....... The hull is closing up, sir." "Great. Get a crew down there to check for damage." "Yes, sir." ...........
"What do you think of this, Wes?" "I dont know Sopp, but I dont see how we're demoted to checking for damages on a warcruiser. We both should be on a dreadnought, if not on station pax as security." "Hmm ok, this is the room. Get ready, the room will still have a partial vacuum." "Yea, yea." Sopp Grisko pushed the button to open the hatch, and nothing happened. Wes pulled out a bar and pried the door open before Sopp could say otherwise. As soon as the door was open, they heard a faint chirp.. then another one a couple seconds later. "What in God's name was that?" "I dont have a clue. Must be some animal the escaped from that crate over there." "Yea, I guess so. I've heard of insects getting aboard cargo crates." The two-human crew walked over, and analyzed the breach. Almost completely sealed. "Thats good ole' Coalition armor for ya. It heals pretty quick." "Yea... hey! look at that little guy over there!" Wes looked over, and saw it. It was a slug. Well, it looked like a slug, except it had what looked like a tail. No, wait. It was in the front. The slug moved forward, toward the crew. Wes pulled his ion pistol, and shot it. It screeched, and sort of deflated, going limp. The humans went over and knelt beside it. "What is it, wes?" "Dunno. Never seen anything like it." Suddenly there was another chirp. "Another one?" "Guess so, if there's one there's probably another couple." "Yea I guess." They went in the direction of the chirp, but then there was another chirp from the other side of the room. "Damn, it's fast." They walk over to where they heard the chirp, and they heard the chirping noise again, from a far corner of the room. Then a chirp from the same direction, only slightly closer. "Heh we get to blow up slugs now. It was getting boring on this ship." Suddenly there was another chirp to the other side of them. They jumped around, and then there was another chirp to their side. And another in front. "Wes, I dont think they're fast.. I think there is a bunch of them." "Yea I guess.. Oh, gross!" Wes felt something wet fall on his cheek. He quickly reached up to it and threw it to the ground. The slug splattered on the ground, it's guts going everywhere. Both humans looked up, and there were tiny blue sparks on the ceiling. Suddenly one of the sparks fell into the light, it was a slug again. This time, it's tail was arcing blue electricity. Both humans turned to face each other. "Oh crap!!!!" Wes tried to kick the slug off his shoe, but it stung him, and he fell to the ground, stunned. Sopp paniced, and and shot in every direction, and a shot bouced off of a armored crate, and hit his partner, killing him. Then the slugs began to fall. ZZap Zap Arcs of blue electricity were shooting around him. He ran as fast as he could, to the bridge. The door was still pried open. He heard the chirping sound coming from the bridge, and he ran even faster. He got there, and nearly fainted. 3 officers were in the floor, lying in pools of red human and black voinian blood. The commander stood up, he was the only survivor on the bridge. Blood drizzled from his ear, but sopp didn't even notice. He was happy he wasn't alone. Suddenly the commander drew his pistol. "Wha.. What are you doing?" Flash Sopp went down, merely stunned. Slugs crawled out of several nearby crevices, and the captain nealt by Sopp's limp body. The captain suddenly fell over, and a slug crawled out of his ear, and burrowed into Sopp's chest, where it would lay eggs later. The entire scout fleet was now gone. Simply gone. The debri was eaten, and several much bigger organisms, flew across the space, nibbling and swarming around any pieces of debri they could find. The Warcruiser drifted through space, a dead hulk. All fighters, and 5 sharks, were destroyed easily, by a few large space-dwelling slugs. After all debri was gone, a slug moved up to the giant warcruiser, and latched onto it's hull. It was nearly 300 times bigger than the smaller slugs inside the ship, almost as big as the warcuiser itself. The Warcruiser was then dragged into hyperspace, and the captured derelict was followed by the group of space dwelling organisms.
The coalition has no accurate data of where the creatures are, and there's no way to trace them.
Azdgari
Message to: Coalition pirates From: Azdgari Dock at the Dark Angel station in Gadzair for the negotiations. Thank you. End message
(what can I say? not much for the azdgari to do at the moment.) The independant's defense will be later.
------------------ "I dont follow the crowd.. I stand and make fun of all the people walking in a straight line." ~A. Rickman "....This is only what I think. We can't in a million years guess what goes on in the snarling, churning bowels of Red's head." ~ESPilot
(This message has been edited by -REDCHIGH- (edited 03-03-2002).)
Red, let me talk to you on AIM, it will be easier
Coalition Pirates:
Rahzio was furious about the destruction of his station and the deaths of his mechanics on DSN-114. "Damn Coalition!",Rahzio exclaimed. The attack of Huan would perhaps work out well for the pirates and gain some advances for them. It would either be very good for them or very bad for them. The Pirate Navy was exiting the Huron system and making way to Huan for attack. Suddenly Rahzio was contacted by his second-in-command. He told Rahzio of a renegade Coalition marine that had been captured flying into Huron. "Bring him to my palace",Rahzio told him. The renegade coalition marine was brought to Rahzio's headquarters and escorted to an interrogation lab. The man was a Voinian that was about 8 feet tall and it seemed to Rahzio that there was something the man was trying to say,something the man was trying to tell the whole galaxy. Twon interrogators walked in with their Super9-Tazers.
They looked at the Voinian and questioned him. "What is your name?",the first man asked the ex-marine. He replied that is was Awakri. "Awakri,what were you doing flying into Huron?",asked the first man. "I have an important message for your leader,I wish to speak to him",said Awakri. "You will not speak to him",said the second man. "I must",said Awakri. "What is it about?",asked the first man. "It is about the fate of the galaxy"
The second man then walked to Rahzio's inner arena to summon Rahzio. "Excuse me your worship",said the man,"the prisoner wishes to speak with you. He says it in the galaxy's interest. "I will not speak to him",said Rahzio. "He will not tell us anything,your worship",said the man. "Very well then",said Rahzio. Rahzio wlked to the interrogation lab and spoke to Awakri. "What is this you have to tell me?",asked Rahzio with anger. Awakri spoke,"Sir,you must unite". "What?",asked Rahzio. "You must unite with the galaxy"said Awakri. Rahzio looked puzzled. "Who do you think you are coming in to my palace and giving me orders? Why would I ever unite with the galaxy?",exclaimed Rahzio. "I had a horrible vision,it is very hard to understand but the one thing I can tell you is that you must unite for your own sake",said Awakri.
Rahzio laughed. "You mean you want me to be allies with the coalition?",asked Rahzio as if it was the most ridiculous thing ever. "I'm afraid you must.",said Awakri,"All of you are doomed. They will destroy you all. Everyone from the Azdgari to the independents". "You are wasting my time.Have this man imprisoned.",said Rahzio with disgust. Awakri jumped from his chair and shouted "Do not do this to yourself". The guards shocked him with the tazers and forced him to the ground. "I hate these damn prophets",sneered Rahzio and left the room.
***Message to Azdgari: Ambassador boarding at Dark Angel Station to discuss diplomacy.END>
(Researching advancements for Nuek missile. 2 posts)
(Ships traveling to Huan's atmosphere. Will arrive in 1 post.)
Mamajama gathered her fleet of 20 Crescent Warships and 10 Miranu Gunships for the assault on Hrekka, per the mission requested by Admiral Benden. With the exception of some of the older CWs, every ship was equipped with the latest quickly regenerating shields, and Lysew cannons, Repulsor Missiles, as well as old fashioned phase turrets and Crescent fighters. The only thing she regretted not having was an Adaah emitter...hopefully, Payback, new leader of the North Tip Renegades, would not have one either.
"People, we're attacking in three waves." mamajama used a pointer to light up the holo display, on communications screens to all the fleet ships. Wave 1, take out the Aradas and medium size ships with the Repulsor missiles. Disable or destroy as many as you can. Everyone, order your Crescent Fighters to take out the enemy's fighters. Wave 1, regroup and regenerate, while Wave 2 goes in to take on the bigger ships...whatever Payback has. We don't want to underestimate him, I hear this guy may have some surprises for us. Wave 3, wait for my command. Understood?" Assents came in from the faces on the split screen at Mamajama's bridge. As always, she hoped that she'd be seeing all of these same faces when the mission was over. "And remember, this is fifty million credits for your families and friends back home on Poch. You get your pay as always, but we're also flying this one for our people. Let's go."
The plan worked perfectly up through Wave 2. As the mercenary fleet poured in to the Hrekka system, Wave 1 attacked the all the medium size ships in range. The Repulsors knocked the small Aradas kilometers from impact, and most did not survive the blast. The few that did hung, disabled, in the system. Meanwhile, a swarm of Mamajama's Crescent fighters engaged the enemy. It looked like a purple and white beehive disturbed by a careless hand. Wave 2 came in more slowly, hunting out the bigger Warships. So far, so good. Only minimal losses to the mercenaries, a few disabled ships.
Mamajama called on Waves 1 and 2 to regroup and regenerate, when Payback presented the "surprise" she had dreaded.
Payback..your move.
Rahzio,still wondering about the Ex-Coalition marine that was questioned earlier, walked to the prison where he was. "Let me speak to Awakri",said Rahzio. The guard looked up at him and asked "Are you sure you wanna see him? He's been yelling and screaming out all afternoon. I think he's kind of crazy,Supreme Commander". "Let me speak to him anyway",said Rahzio. Rahzio walked back to where Awakri's cell was. Awakri was sitting on the floor laughing. Rahzio said,"You!Why do you say we must unite?". Awakri rose slowly. He turned his head slowly to face Rahzio with a smirk on his face. Awakri then charged the at the bars and screamed "Because I'm taking over!". He then burst into laughter and fell on the floor. Rahzio realized that Awakri was just another crazy running his mouth. "I'm taking over the galaxy. ME! ME! ME! HAHAHA!",yelled Awakri,"Are you ready?!?!". Rahzio then said "Are you ready?". "Me? For what?",said Awakri. Rahzio pulled out his Ion pistol and shot Awakri 6 times in the head. "There is a body in the last cell",Rahzio told the guard and walked back into his personal section of the palace.
MOD: Mamajama, that's a little too much for your first post. I'll be reacting towards your first wave, and you'll catch on whats happening. Also, lyesew turrets are the same strength as phase. Phase is outdated so bad, it'd be like using a snubnose pitol vs a AK-47 with attached grenade launcher. get it?
As the 5 crescent warships and 2 gunships pull back after their initial wave, the renegades immediately pursue them, not wanting them to recharge. Heavy skad turret fire (from the azdgari) battered the retreating wave, finishing off a few warships. As a salvoe of 5 Neuk rockets from renegade laziras hits an already damaged gunship, it explodes, and that triggers the second wave of mamajama's fleet. As the crescent warships storm forward, 12 Renegade aradas move to meet them, and a wave of nuek rockets beats them back, with the CW's taking out a few aradas, nothing more. The Renegade ships move back, and the ships stare at each other. There is only about 25 renegade ships, and 8 are fighters. There are 10 aradas, 5 laziras, and 2 crescent warships in the system, ready to fight to the death.
On his way to Tumni in his ship Spirit, Z'tar considers the times at hand. "I do believe that this might just turn out to be interesting enough to make the trip worth my while." He's going to Tumni to see Espilot to discuss further issues that they had been conversing via encrypted messaging. Feering that the information was a bit too juicy for that kind of relay, they had decided to speak face-to-face on those matters.
(Message to Espilot at the Naval High Command on Tumni) (My ship shall venture into Tumni space soon. I think that it will be in our best interests if we meet at headquarters. If possible, I'd like for you to think more about those things which we discussed before. We need to reach some resolutions soon. Together, we shall make the Zidigar great.
Z'tar
Oh, I almost forgot, I've come over some old blueprints I made a long time ago that I think deserve some looking into. They should be extremely benefitial to our plans. I'm sending them along with this message under extreme encryption. Look them over and tell me what you think.
::File Attatchment - ^%S8ppfr2$3#%96452-ba2::)
Z'tar reaches for his cup and takes a sip before starting another message.
(To Kenel at R&D;) (I know you are currently working on the star shields for Espilot, but I will also ask you to have a look at some blueprints I've discovered. I'd like you to start building one of these for experimentational purposes. Also, get me all the information on phase technology and send it to my mail on Tumni. I'll discuss my reasons for this at a later time. Thank you.
Feeling satisfied that the neither files could be deciphered by anyone within the next ten years if intercepted by some chance, he presses send on the keypad. He sits back and ponders about the bluprints that he was talking about in his messages and says aloud, "Hmm... I wonder..." Z'tar gets up and walks to the main computer and starts imputing some calculations. After a time, he wipes his forhead and smiles. "Oh this should work very well. Computer?"
"Yes Z'tar, Sir?"
"Begin developing a protoype design derrived from these two files," he says as he touches the screen twice indicating to the computer which files he was reffering to. "I want you to condense them into one unit and preferably decrease the size without taking away much efficiency."
"Yes Z'tar, Sir."
"Good, good. Notify me when you're done."
"Yes Sir. Estimated time until prototype is complete, 3 hours."
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Technologies in progress: Star Shields: 3 posts Hyperdrive Engines: 5 posts
1 post to begin Mobile Shield Projector - launchable missile-like object that projects a relatively weak and temporary shield wall via remote or internal timer
ETA to Tumni - 1 post New blueprints - 1 post
------------------ "Given a long enough timeline, the survival rate of everyone drops to zero." ~Fight Club "'Dammit, don't ask me questions!' ~a giant nipple" ~Me