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Lythrawn laughed as the Dark Angel ships began their attack run. "Bring in the reinforcements."
Immediately another 35 warships hyperspaced into the system, adding to the already huge Acarra warfleet there. With the Zidagar gone for the moment, the Acarra had a sizable upper-hand in the battle, and began to tear away at the Dark Angel fleet.
"Target their flagship!" Lythrawn ordered, firing off a huge wave of warp disruptor torpedoes. The torpedoes slammed into the Dark Angel , sending its shields into an uncontrollable state of flux. The end result; any weapons the Dark Angel shot merely hit its own shields. Though the effect would wear off in a short time, it would put the giant supercruiser out of the battle long enough for the Acarra to force them to retreat with heavy losses.
"In the meantime, send a message to Fourth General Vaergon. I want him to be ready in case I need help."
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Espilot swore. "How do we beat these people?" he muttered to himself. "Sir, all ships are done in repairs." "Good! Now tell them to drop out of subspace behind the enemy fleets! Fire all weapons but the phased beams, and keep at maximum Flash range! I want those bastards flanked to death!" "Yessir!"
Twenty-one Zidaras, including the ones that were originally in the Carriers' bays, and all of their fighters entered the system just within Flash range behind the Acarra fleet. They began pounding the enemy's shields with Flash weaponry and Ciat missiles. "Damnit, we need those new upgraded Flash turrets right about now...Ensign! Contact Major Telk! We'll need heavy reinforcements here, and at least two more carriers!" "Yessir!" The Acarra ships, caught somewhat by surprised, had to turn their ships around and attempt to get within their own primaries' range, but the nimble Zidigar ships retreated further and bombarded them still from the edge of their Flash weapons' range, while firing all the Ciat missiles they had. The Acarra ships began firing their powerful missile weapons, and suddenly a Zidara burst into flame. Most of the others were low on shields. "All ships return to your carriers! All ships return to your carriers!" Espilot ordered over the intercomm. The Zidigar fleet submerged into hyperspace, but all ships had suffered massive damage, and a good many fighters had been destroyed.
As the ships were in repair, there appeared a pair of Carriers, escorted by a fleet of Zidaras and Zidigar Fighters, at least twenty warships and fifty fighters, plus the two carriers. "We need to hurry up those repairs! Get those droid teams in overdrive! The Dark Angels can't hold out forever while we repair!"
At the Zidigar R&D; facility on Tumni, the scientists working on Anti-matter missiles were now trying to find a way to synthesize the anti-matter itself; if such a thing could be done, they'd have a near endless amount of anti-matter. It would take quite a while though.
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------------------ Greetings from your friendly local cannibal, put in your town by the federal government to keep the human population in check. Of all the people I've pummeled; unsuspecting and deserving, I've learned one thing: you can either run, or fight. All other strageties are variations of these. Geglash All the lonely people, where do they all come from? All the lonely people, where do they all belong? The Beatles YOU NO LIKE DA ESP? DA ESP NO LIKE YOU.
(This message has been edited by ESPilot (edited 04-14-2002).)
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Originally posted by grunadulater: ** Eltor The Striker Wobbled out of hyperspace just as the engines blew. The ship was disabled at the edge of the system...
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Eltor
Mamajama had messaged Grunadulator while in transit to the Jama fleet rendezvouz at DSN7294, north of the Huron system. She had learned of the Confederate defeat, and of the Acarra takeover of Huron. She had re-directed the Jama fleet to go through Sol and meet at Eltor. The Foster's Revenge had helped tow and repair the damaged Striker. Meanwhile, she had heard from Jo Jama back on Poch, that the Poch Council had voted down a formal alliance with the Adzgari, but approved a limited trade agreement; drought relief and irrigation equipment in exchange for mercenary services and passage through the mercenary systems of Zimla and Nemnel.
TRANSMISSION: TO: Admiral Redchigh, Adzgari Empire FR: Mamajama, Mercenary Houses of Poch RE: Trade alliance
I am forwarding to you the text of the proposed trade alliance that our Poch Council has approved. It is not what you wanted, however, it is a compromise we can live with. You might notice all the battles raging at the edges of the Galaxy, even close to Adzgari space in Zidagar systems,against the Acarra. If you wish to prove that you are honorable, come fight alongside other races against a common enemy, and we can sort out all of the trade agreements, etc, if we all survive. The forces of the Adzgari Empire might turn the tide of the Wave of Destruction. Otherwise, you, too, might lose all that you have to the Acarra. END TRANSMISSION
She also sent messages to several of the larger mercenary houses of Poch, the Shozar, the Delroon, and the Tomas.
TRANSMISSION: TO: Mercenary houses of Poch FR: Mamajama RE: Paid work defending the Galaxy
If you checked the mission BBS lately, you know that Grunadulator of the Confederacy is offering to pay well for our aid in defeating the mysterious Acarra, who we first knew as the Attar. Please bring your best ships and crews as soon as possible to the Eltor system, and await further orders from Grunadulator. You will be fighting alongside the Dark Angels, the Zidagar, and possibly others. If we cannot contain these Acarra at the outskirts of the Galaxy, it won't be long before they're destroying Poch as they have destroyed Huron, Helios, and Hrekka. P is only 8 letters away from H if the aliens are working alphabetically.
END TRANSMISSION
In conference with Grunadulator:. "These Acarra are incredibly powerful. Have you found any weaknesses yet?"
OOC: The live slug research is complete, but I haven't heard from Capt. Carnotaur if the slugs will be vulnerable to any chemical attack.
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(This message has been edited by mamajama (edited 04-14-2002).)
OOC: Just as a note, the Acarra have no missiles; only torpedoes.
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Qerid System
As the Dark Angels continued to be pounded by the Acarra, the Zidagar once again ran into an energy lattice when they were leaving, damaging many ships and destroying two more Zidaras.
Then, as the Zidagar hyperspaced out, Lythrawn's fleet hit the Dark Angel fleet with an energy lattice, and then a second energy lattice a little later.
Slug Research - Nemnel System
The slugs had now been tested to numerous types of possible countermeasures. Most chemicals seemed not to affect them, and if they did, it was the babies that were affected; the adults were normally unharmed. The adults could also adapt to the field coils more easily and quickly, and the only way to stop them was to make sure the coils were powerful enough to fry the animal in one blast. Salt didn't affect them, but a form of hydrocloric acid did seem to affect the baby slugs a bit, causing them to die or leave the area where the acid was immediately.
Then, the scientists noticed that the adults were becoming different. One slug was growing larger, faster, and seemed to be developing some kind of ovary-like sacs inside its chest. The other was forming arms and legs, four eyes instead of two, and bigger and more powerful jaws. The scientists then realized that they must be trying to form into two different strains of the slug, though it was hard to prove at the moment.
(This message has been edited by Captain Carnotaur (edited 04-14-2002).)
Grunadulater sighed. "No, we haven't found any weakness, but we did manage to take some footage of the battle with the Acarra. Unfortunatly, the ship carrying the tapes dropped out of hyperspace in the middle of a jump. Its stuck between systems unless we can get at it. Do you know how we can do that?" ---------- A huge fleet was mobilising in the system of Duram (Which I control), which was the system where the Hyperbeam equipment was being made. So far it had 5 Defenders, 20 Carriers, 20 Haulers, and the Stiker would we coming with it when its repairs were complete. ---------- Hyperbeam equipment=2 posts ---------- New tech: Ion engine The Ion engine takes positivily charged Ions from space, and uses them for fuel by attracting them to negitivly charged Atoms. The Ions are then charged with energy (they don't become energy, they just get charged with it) and are used as propultion. ETA=7 posts ---------- Grunadulater looked at MJ, and thought. Then he asked a question. "How many scientists do you have working for you? Enough to create a new tech?"
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OOC: Carno, if the Zidigar ships are attacking from the very edge of their Flash weapons' range (Flash weapons being the longest-ranged primaries in the galaxy), how can they get hit by one of the Energy Lattices when they're projected from one Acarra ship to another? And a missile is an object or weapon that is fired, thrown, dropped, or otherwise projected at an opponent.
OOC: I lost my post! Basically, the DA retreat, return to base, and decide to build a new Archangel. It was longer than that originally, of course.
--- ETA until SILO production complete: 3 posts ETA until Singularity Creation Techniques complete: 3 posts ETA until Archangel complete: 10 posts
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(quote)Originally posted by ESPilot: **OOC: Carno, if the Zidigar ships are attacking from the very edge of their Flash weapons' range (Flash weapons being the longest-ranged primaries in the galaxy), how can they get hit by one of the Energy Lattices when they're projected from one Acarra ship to another? And a missile is an object or weapon that is fired, thrown, dropped, or otherwise projected at an opponent.:)
------------------ 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). **
Originally posted by grunadulater: **Grunadulater sighed. "No, we haven't found any weakness, but we did manage to take some footage of the battle with the Acarra. Unfortunatly, the ship carrying the tapes dropped out of hyperspace in the middle of a jump. Its stuck between systems unless we can get at it. Do you know how we can do that?"
Grunadulater looked at MJ, and thought. Then he asked a question. "How many scientists do you have working for you? Enough to create a new tech?" **
Mamajama replied, "Some Miranu scientists, based on Poch, were studying hyperspace fluctuations, and developed a relatively slow-moving hyperspace ship. It takes roughly five times as long to move between systems. Hopefully, if we send it on the same route as your lost ship, it would be able to perceive your ship and lock on to it, tractor it out of there. I've sent out a call for the larger mercenary houses of Poch to join us here. I will also ask them to send out whatever scientists are not engaged in our live slug research project.
If you have labs and materials for them to use, we should have enough scientists to create a new tech. What did you have in mind?"
ETA arrival of Ultra Slow Hyperspace Observatory (USHO) 2 posts
OOC: Oh, so now you decide where my fleets exit hyperspace? And you also get to bring up little fighter squadrons from nowhere when you want to damage my ships? Don't give me that crap, Carno. You made no mention of any fighters being seperate from the fleet. If there were, the Zidigar would have picked them up on scanners and destroyed them. But, oh well.
The repairs were now complete, and the number of Zidigar ships was nearly doubled. They left subspace a good distance away from the fleet, and Espilot noticed something on the wide scanner sweeps; a large fighter squadron, far off to the side. That must've been what was making those lattices. "Zidara Squadron Zeta, and Squadron Theta, rally your ships and take down those fighters! We can't keep losing ships every time we retreat!" Espilot brought an ensign to the bridge and said, "Get Sergeant Shera. Tell her to send as many forces she can and any carriers she can spare. And contact the Steel Roost! I want that thing here pronto!"
Two Zidara Squadrons (totaling seven Zidaras and their fighters) zoomed toward the Acarra fighters. Armed with powerful psi cannons, the pilots were unfazed by the sudden charge. Firing their Flash turrets from out of range, the total twenty-one Zidigar ships had the advantage for the first part of the skirmish, but the nimble Acarra fighters were coming fast. "Phased Beamers heated up!" yelled one of the Squadron leaders. The Zidigars charged, returning psi fire with their flash weaponry. As the ships closed in on each other, the Zidigar ships fired their powerful Phased Beamers. Several Acarra fighters were wiped out quickly, but the remainders fought like demons; nine Zidigar fighters were destroyed already. After a heavy exchange of fire, the Zidaras were all either low on shields or shields down, but with enemy fighters were destroyed.
At the main battle, the now reinforced Zidigar fleet was using the same tactic as before, but now unfortunately they had less Ciat missiles to use, so they were very conservative about doing so. The captains' morale was boosted with news of the Acarra fighters' destruction, but the battle was still going to be very hard. The Acarra capitol ships were slowly weakening, but the Zidigar ships were having some difficulty evading Acarra torpedo weapons. Soon enough, the Zidigar ships retreated back into hyperspace, but no ships were attacked this time.
Espilot muttered under his breath "Where the hell is Z'tar when I need him...."
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MOD: ESPilot, that's insane. I hope you realize that a single fighter squadron would be composed of 20 some Shrikes and 15 Wraiths, which would have taken out a hell load of your own fighters. Also don't forget the long-range torpedo weapons that would have pounded you as soon as you entered the system.
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"How many more ships did we take out?" Lythrawn growled.
"Two Zidaras, thirty-six fighters. No vessels lost."
"Very good. And where is Vaergon?" Lythrawn growled again, his eyes blazing red once more.
Suddenly, the command ship Menthu-Ra and an escort of ten Enforcer Frigates and two Centaur Carriers entered the system and began to release their fighter squadrons, which quickly replaced the fighters lossed in the last assault. Once again, fighter squadrons were placed to attack the Zidagar when they exited from hyperspace, but they were in much larger numbers, and each squadron (there were three of them) had a Wolf Starcruiser and two Enforcer Frigates behind them, ready to pound the enemy with supporting fire. The Acarra were also ordered to use the devastating Warp Disruptor Torpedoes, which would soon prove quite useful. The fleet was also prepared to, as soon as the Zidagar fleet began to engage the fighter squadrons, to send off all their remaining fighters and frigates to attack the enemy fleet, which would be followed by the slower Centaur Carriers, Wolf Starcruisers, and the two Command Ships.
Huron a fleet of 40 warcruisers and 70 sharks jump in and begin pounding on the Acarra ships with their new ion beams knocking fighters out like a tough peice of steak. the Coalition ships were still inferier but now stood a much better chance. ------------------ (message to Confeds) (milkyway encryption) we have sent a large fleet into the Huron system to fight off the Acarra and are doing well in comparison with befor but we must have your cloak design to make our ships even more effective. and we can swear that we wont attack you or give away your design as long as im in command. i belive i may have found a weakness in their ships. they use torpedos, they can be out run and dodged. please help us exploit this. ~UE Admiral (end)
(message to Zidagar) (milkyway encryption) Greetings from the Coalition. we ask you to do us a favor. you are the only ones we know of that have extensive knowledge of hyperspace. we have detected a vessel in hyper space between 2 of our systems disabled we would like you to bring it into the Eltor system for us. the pay? our graditude. ~UE Admiral (end)
----------------- Coalition of Worlds R&D;
Dreadnought Construction Total: 10, ETC: 6 posts
Cenurion Force Engine ETC: 3 posts
Stratta Class Battleship:
Speed: 100 accel: 80 turn: 80/sec shields: 8000 armor: 3000 weapons: 20 Ionic Beam Turrets 15 Turreted spur missle launchers 10000 ammo. shark bay 10 sharks ETC:17 posts is this ok? (its ment to be more powerfull than the Dreadnought.)
------------------ Insanity has its advantages
As with all of the races, the Miranu had spies throughout the galaxy. The Miranu spies acted as passive information gatherers. Every week, a ship would come to each world to recieve a report from the spy. This week, the reports weren't good. The Accara, AKA the Attar, had attacked several systems. As Paul read of reports of battles and several reports of the positions of fleets. Things did not look good for the Milky Way.
Paul quickly organized a the newly reconditioned Miranu ships to go and help defend the Zidagar. All ships were stocked with weapons, and soon set off for Qerid. Paul sent a message to the Zidagar:
"Heard you guys were having a party. Open the door so we can join. Admiral Paul Benden."
The factories were ready to start churning out Mechs, and the first lot would be ready pretty soon. A large portion of the battlefleet and several other ships that had faced the Azdgari a week earlier was now moving out to help defend againts a new threat. Fleet count is: 12 Dragons(Includes Bahumat) 72 Ares Crescent Warships Carried Ships No Fighter Squadrons(All on defense and patrol duty) --------------------------------------- Disruptor Cannon Development ETC:3 Posts Azdgari Ship Refitting ETC:11 Posts Mech Mass Production Per Post:25 Total Produced:0 New Hrekka Station ETC:10 Posts(Will start after Disruptor Cannon is done)
------------------ "Take me to your dealer"-Bumper sticker "This yacht is the luxury vessel for the pimp on a budget..."-Considered Plug-in Text "Doritos:The official currency of fat people."-My friend
OOC: UE Admiral, how big is your navy? I can't imagine it being much more than 600 ships, and with you constantly sending huge fleets of warcruisers and sharks, you've got to be running fairly badly out of ships.
Also, your ship looks good, though it seems to be a bit too fast, and you might want to spend a little more time researching it.
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DSN-4386 System
While a large portion of the Coalition fleet was off fighting the hopeless battle in Huron, the far-off outpost of DSN-4386 remained relatively quiet, until now.
Suddenly, a fleet of fifty warships, led by the huge command ship Amun Shiva , hyperspaced into the system. They immediately opened fire in a huge wave of Warp Disruptor Torpedoes, all of which hit their mark, and thus making the Coalition fleet absolutely no danger, for the moment at least.
Screaming in and blasting them apart with all they had, the Acarra fleet was making quick mincemeat of the Coalition. As their shields slowly returned to normal, the Acarra fired off more waves of warp disruptor torpedoes, causing the Coalition fleet to scatter with huge losses.
Huron System
The Acarra used the same tactic as they had in the DSN-4386 system; fire off large amounts of Warp Disruptor Torpedoes. Though they didn't have a whole lot of them and they would soon run out, they did their job, quickly making the Coalition fleet not much of a problem. The Acarra then quickly ran them through with an energy lattice, and then another energy lattice, and finally a quick third lattice before the effect weared off and the Coalition fleet began to fire back.
Suddenly, the huge command ship Myrmidon , the latest addition to the Acarra fleet and Second General Thrade's new command ship, entered the sem. Her escort fleet of 20 warships quickly followed her into the battle. Pulling up alongside the command ship Demeter , the two monsterous vessels then plowed straight through the Coalition line, taking down well over a dozen ships, then turning around and running through their right flank, causing even more casualties.
Dewe System
While Benden rushed off to try and help the Zidagar, the Acarra had other plans. Sixty-five warships entered the Dewe system and immediately began to open fire on the defense fleet, which was pummeled half to death before they were able to return fire with any sort of effectiveness.
As the Acarra continued to hit the Miranu hard with their superior weaponry, the Acarra made sure that the lead Miranu ship was able to send off a distress call before that ship was destroyed by multiple hyperfield torpedoes. With almost half of the Miranu fleet gone, the Acarra had a huge advantage...
(This message has been edited by Captain Carnotaur (edited 04-15-2002).)
OOC: Benden, I still own F-25. Check the map.
Originally posted by grunadulater: **OOC: Benden, I still own F-25. Check the map. **
Correct, and the Acarra still control Hrekka, so you can't make a new station.
Redchigh recieves the post from MJ.. "So... the Zidigar needs assistance? If they want it, They can ask for it.... (And hear me refuse it) It will do much more to build up my fleet.... to simply crush any acarra advancement and keep my technologies secret. " "Sir! You've heard of the recent Acarra movements close to our space, how to you want to alter our fleet patterns?" "Send 10 more predators to the boundary, but nothing more. If the Acarra invade a non-important base, evacuate and retreat. Do not fire a SINGLE shot." "Yes........ Sir.........." "We do need more power. See what the Science labs can do about it." "Yes sir..." The ensign's name was Kri'sa, and he deserved better. He entered the Azdgari Navy as an officer.. He thought he'd be commanding massive fleets against the Coalition. He had no idea things would change with the Acarra. What was Red up to? The Azdgari needed to ally to survive! Red's ideas always seemed to work, but this one? Retreat from the Acarra? He might have lost it. It wouldn't be too suprising, it's stressful to run a galactic nation. Kri'sa walked down the hallway, and entered the vacuum transporter. He stepped in, and there was a sweeping wind that ran across his skin. A second later he was 300 ft lower than where he started, and as he lurched to a stop, a hatch creaked open and he stepped out. The science lab was interesting the first few times he had come down here, but now it was just a workplace. There was a hologram of the schematics of the supercruiser on the wall, apparently fueling the scientists' ego. Finally, he saw the man he was looking for. He never said his real name, he just went by An'de. An'de was working on his computer, but no one was ever sure. there were rumors that he was working for an earth-based programming company based around apple shareware, but it was never proven. As Kri walked by, a grey parrot screeched at him. "I never have liked that earth creature..." An'de looked at him. "You mean hector? Ignore him." "Uh, ok. Redchigh says he needs more power for his fleets. what can you do?" "Well, I've been playing with the idea of placing a large nuek warhead in the draek modules.... the speed and everything will remain the same, only the damage will be much higher... The warhead would be pressurized, heated, and compressed, to place a stronger compact warhead inside such a small space." "Im sure that's exactly what REDchigh had in mind" Kri said with a wink. "Start it right away!" An'de smiled, typed a few words, and every scientist in the building started working a little bit faster, to get this new project done.
Research Project Initiated: Upgraded Draek Modules Increase the strength or the Draek module dramatically. ETA: 5 posts (After research is done, there won't be a massive refit. Just ammo will be replaced with upgraded and ships built will have the upgraded version.)
Construction Project Initiated: Azdgari Chimarea (Supercruiser) The Cataclysm (Building with more Draek launchers and much more ammo. (b)ETA: 12-posts
------------------ "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
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OOC:I never said anything about F-25. New Hrekka Station is being carved out of the sphere of metal that used to be the loading station in orbit of Mira. -------------------------------------------- Paul and his warfleet were awaiting the drop of the Hyperspace Inhibitors in the Nadej system, when he recieved the distress call from Dewe. He immediately began to broadcast a message to all warships in Miranu space. "This is an all ships bulletin. All ships within five jumps of Dewe are to report there, battle-ready, as soon as possible. Invaders have attacked the Dewe system. Do your best to drive them off. Kill all of them."
He then ordered the battlefleet to make all possible speed to Dewe. In-system status reports showed that the Miranu ships were blockading the planet, with the Acccara ships moving in and taking them on head-to head. It was a bad move on the Miranu commander's part, but it would delay the Accara long enough for reinforcements to arrive. "Engage main drive and all secondaries. Activate hyperdrive at 5.092.8857 on heading 36.90.260," he ordered. ------------------------------------------- The Miranu fleet arrived at 45° from the back of the Accara fleet. Several(6) lone Ares Warships arrived near the fleet and quickly formed up on it. Two others arrived behind the planet and quickly came around to reinforce the quickly failing blockade. The Miranu fleet immediately opened up on the Accara fleet and took out several fighters in the first wave of missiles and Lysew fire. The Dragons held fire on their Adaah Emitters, as it was unkown what kind of effects that kind of weaponry would have against these alien vessels.
The Miranu soon lost the surprise of their attack and came under fire by most of the Accara fleet. Several other Accara vessels continued to pester the dying blockade. The Miranu fleet kept its cohesions, using their weapon arcs to protect eachother from fighters and warships. All of the fighters were launched from their motherships and formed into one huge squadron. These attempted to skim the right side of the Accara formation then come at it from the back and take out any landing transports. -------------------------------------- Disruptor Cannon Development ETC:2 Posts Azdgari Ship Refitting ETC:10 Posts Mech Mass Production Per Post:25 Total Produced:25 New Hrekka Station ETC:10(Will Start After Disruptor Cannon)
As the Zidigar fleet was undergoing repairs, two Carriers and twelve Zidaras came within scanner range. "Sir! The reinforcements have arrived." "Good." responded Espilot. "Dock this carrier with the Steel Roost." "Yes sir. And sir, Sergreant Shera says that the upgrades to the Flash turrets are completed, and upgraded turrets are to be installed on all Zidigar vessels in the fleet." "All right. Launch all ships from these carriers, but don't send them back into the system. Tell them to send the weapon components over in cargo pods." "Yes sir." Espilot walked down to the airlock, waiting just outside the door. A boarding tube was extended from one carrier to another, and then pressurized. Espilot entered, and walked across to the Steel Roost. Going swiftly to the bridge, he was seemingly unnoticed by his crew; in his many years in the espionage business he had grown a talent for secrecy and subtlety. He stepped into the bridge, and went to an unmanned console. The Steel Roost, being the Zidigar flagship, was equipped with self-destruct and subspace submersion controls for all Zidigar stations. "Ensign!" The entire bridge crew was taken by surprise at the voice of their Admiral. "Tell them to send back three Zidaras with only skeleton crews. Try to draw the enemy ships toward the station." "Yessir!" Espilot lifted a glass covering over a large red button, and waited. "Three Zidaras have been launched, Admiral." said an ensign. "Good." He pressed the button, and set the countdown to twelve minutes. When that countdown reached zero, the space station would self-destruct. Espilot simply hoped that his plan would work.
The three Zidaras entered the system between the Acarra fleets and the station. They fired their upgraded flash weapons and retreated a little ways, drawing the Acarra ships closer. The continued doing this, trying to draw them closer and closer to the station... ----- Phased Beam Upgrade-Postponed (2 posts) Flash Turret Upgrade-Finished Anti-Matter missiles-Postponed (3 posts) Anti-Matter synthesis-7 Posts Zidagra Frigate-1 Post Trebuchet Heavy Destroyer-3 Posts
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"Did you change all the codes for the station?"
"All of them. They have no power over it."
"Very well. Let's show these Zidagar what happens when they fight the Acarra."
With the extra help from Vaergons fleet, the Acarra closed in on the Zidagar, moving into a C-formation. As they were doing this, firing off dozens upon dozens of torpedoes into the midst of the enemy fleet, 55 other warships (the reserve Lythrawn had) hyperspaced in on the opposite side of the system. They too closed in on the zidagar, moving into a C-formation which would now pretty much trap the Zidagar.
As the enemy fleet got closer to the station, which was under full control of the Acarra, Lythrawn ordered the stations weapons to open fire. At the same time, the Acarra did an all-out charge against the Zidagar, their powerful beams lancing out and tearing apart the enemy fleet. Droves of fighters went down as wave upon wave of Wraiths and Shrikes pummeled the enemy.
"Energy lattices!"
Immediately three waves of Wraith fighters assembled and charged through the Zidagar fleet, hitting them with three consecutive lattices which brought even more chaos to the Zidagar formation. As the Acarra closed within psi-turret and cannon range, they REALLY began to open up with a lot of firepower. The Zidagar were taking heavy damage now, and the battle was definitely against them...