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Post by MikDaTv on May 14, 2009 0:58:58 GMT -5
"Contacts Sir, enemy fleet is forming up into a battle formation." The sensor officer yelled from his station.
Jor looked at the hologram of the Republic fleet. They'd be taking some hits during the opening salvo but that wouldn't last long. "Speed?"
The helmsman turned in his chair. "approaching your second mark now Warmaster."
"Come on, Come on!" Jor insisted.
The helmsman turned back to his console and tried to squeeze a little more out of the engine pods. "she'll fly apart."
"Fly her apart then!" Jor growled. He turned to the weapons station. "Status on our counter measures?"
Weapons officer looked back over his shoulder and smiled. "Locked and loaded sir. I've tied the advanced sensor array into our targeting computer for extra speed."
"Good work, keep em prepped and ready for launch. Open all the tubes and charge the turbolasers." Jor said moving from the weapons station to the front of the bridge. "Helm, put 15% power from life support into the engines for a 20 second burst. The lock the auxiliary power into forward shields."
Acknowledgments rang out all around the bridge as the Voyager picked up speed. Her forward shields went opaque slightly as they received a sudden burst of energy, hardening them. Her assault concussion missile tube's opened their doors and prepared to fire.
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Post by Kayen/Saul/Katarina on May 14, 2009 3:17:16 GMT -5
Kayen felt Voyager rock from a few hits and he growled softly as he continued forcing power into the engines of his Aggressor Assault Fighter until they were very close to overheating. He quickly flipped a few switches on the console and the targeting system of the ship tied into his helmet. He used the software in his helmet to establish a threat indicator as well and then he waited. "C'mon c'mon c'mon let the dogs out Jor..." he whispered to himself.
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Post by Elifain on May 18, 2009 14:07:50 GMT -5
ooc: back for now. anyways, mik, nice ignoring my attack with the warbird weapons. anyways, here it goes... bic: Elifain watched as his ships moved ahead towards the Lysander. He quickly relayed the order to have all ships use full shields on the front, while they were charging the enemy. The warbird class ships continued to fire with their long range triple turbolaser cluster. His fleet continued to move towards the Lysander. The 418 stood back with its 2 ship escort, moving towards the battle, but not in an attempt to get there to quickly. It prepaired its engines to move forward as the fleet attacked, to trap the lysander in place.
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Post by Zilfer Of Shadows... on May 18, 2009 16:09:57 GMT -5
During this commotion Nanashi had made his way down to the hangerbay and walked onto his StealthX fighter. Opening a Comlink to the bridge he sent a message, as he took off into space. "Fleet Admiral Drakain, this is Nanashi of the Black Bridage. We will assist your fleet in whatever way possible."
Nanashi's ships numbered exactically 81 Fighters total, half of them StealthX and half of them XJ3 star Fighters. He relayed his orders through the force to those pilots in his StealthX's. He had ordered twenty of them to stay behind and act as Interceptors, hidden in the blackness of space, and then the rest to accompany the XJ3-Starfighters in support of the Warbird's charging attack. All weapons were prepped to fire when within range, the StealthX's stayed off to the sides so that they wouldn't be easily noticed. Remember once you near that ship it will mark you with a radiation signature and it will be able to track you. sent Nanashi's last message as he himself personally was heading forward in the attack with his fighters.
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Post by MikDaTv on May 18, 2009 21:05:54 GMT -5
long range turbolaser strikes panged against the Voyager's hardened forward shields. Her engines were screaming from the power being funneled through them and the ship was accelerating past her design limits.
"Sir, engine pod 6 is overheating." The helmsmen reported.
"ok, dial engines down to normal levels. Funnel the extra energy into the shields." He turned towards the weapons officer. "status of targets?"
"They're moving towards us as well. the speed difference is making solutions difficult but we have target locks all across the board." The weapons officer replied.
Jor nodded and went to the senors station. "Enemy fighters?"
Sensor officer smiled. "they've deployed additional fighters. i'm counting one hundred in total."
Jor's frown was so set that his face would break open if you touched it. "More then that probably. Keep an eye out for unaccounted for rocket trails."
Jor quickly walked over to his command chair and sat down again. "We're at maximum turbolaser range warmaster" the helmsmen told him.
"All forward batteries open fire, target the lead center Warbird. Target the K-wings and fire a full spread of torpedo's. Then target the Y-35's, two missiles each, and X-wings and fire an assault concussion missile. all remaining warheads are to target that lead center warbird." Jor barked.
The helmsman started the forward turbolasers firing while the weapons officer targeted the fighters and selected the proper ordinance. The Voyagers forward weapons started blazing. the rapid fire turbolasers blasting away, targeting the warbird directly in front. her 8 forward torpedo launchers cycled through their 3 missiles, launching all 24 into space towards the K-wings and began reloading. A single assault concussion missile launched from the dorsal launch tube and arched towards the fighter formation.
at safe distance the assault concussion missile burst open and split apart. 100 concussion missiles shot from it's nose and split off from it's sides. 24 missiles headed for the 12 Y-35 cobras. 64 missiles headed for the 64 X-wings, and the remaining 12 missiles joined their proton torpedo brethren in heading for the targeted warbird.
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Post by Kayen/Saul/Katarina on May 19, 2009 17:21:48 GMT -5
Kayen growled as he felt the ship rocking again and he squeezed the flight stick of his Aggressor Assault Fighter, waiting to receive the order to launch. His target acquisition HUD was painted with red and blue squares and he felt something. One of the enemy fighters rippled with the force, but Kayen couldn't identify the feeling yet.
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Post by Elifain on May 20, 2009 0:54:56 GMT -5
Elifains fleet moved forward slowly, as his 6 majestics locked targets onto the enemies lysander, and fired thier ion cannons, and turbo lasers. They also threw out 2 concussion missiles from each ship. The leading warbird fired its full compliment of 6 heavy turbolasers, and its triple turbo cluster at the enemy lysander, while setting its PDS to auto fire out of the fleet, and into the darkness beyond hoping to take out some of the missiles. It did however cut all power to the engines, and most of life suport to fortify its forward shields. The fighters though, took a different aproach. They "bugged off" using the leading warbird as cover from the missiles they figured were flying at them. The Nebula, towards the front of the fleet opened fire with all 40 of its turbo lasers, threw out the 20 ion cannon rounds, and 8 of their own assult concussion missiles, as the 418 immobilizer threw out a few gravity wells, around the fleet, and near the lysander. The 2 Picard class ships moved slowly to where they had a shot for the enemy lysander, and fired their rail cannon. Even if the enemy fleet was shielded heavily, a 5000 ton bomb hitting would tear the stuffing out of most anything.
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Post by Zilfer Of Shadows... on May 20, 2009 2:13:32 GMT -5
Nanashi's fleet which had been following the Warbirds from behind prepared for the oncoming attack. Nanashi sent his StealthX's south before before the engagement keeping their distance from the Lysander while trying to take up a position beneath the Lysander. Meanwhile the visible XJ3 starfighters received their own orders.
Once, in range fire and scatter into two wings. Four of you will take up a formation and follow me, sent Nanashi through the force once again. He did not know if anyone could feel the stirrings of the force from his fighter however it was a risk he was more then willing to take. The XJ3's shot their proton torpedoes, numbering 120 Heavy Proton torpedoes as missles and lasers were fired back at the Third Fleet.
Nanashi's XJ3's took a similar path of using the larger ships in front of them to take the blunt of the blow, five unlucky X-wings being decimated by Concussion missles. The others managed to hide behind a warbird and then fly out on a second attack, launching a second wave of Heavy proton torpedoes.
Nanashi himself had not however slowed his speed, he continued to increase it. The four XJ3's that had followed up behind him in a diamond formation were also targeted by the Concussion missle's and as they flew at them Nanashi closed his eyes for a few seconds forcing two to smash into each other before reaching them. As he opened his eyes he almost came smack dab into the other two concussion missles aimed for the fighters behind him. Swerving at the last second he dodged the missle, which slammed into the front X-wing taking out that pilot as well as another to the right side. Himself included, only Three X-wings remained on their charge. They unloaded their current supply of ammo leaving one proton torpedo in each launcher. Nanashi still hadn't fired a thing yet as he regrouped with his X-wing esort now reduced to two in a delta formation. It would be of little use to hide himself soon for the enemy Lysander would most likely have turned on their Cloak Buster system which would reveal his pressence anyways.
"You have a choise to make gentlemen. If you follow me, there's no garentee you'll live. I won't hold your decision against you." said Nanashi over the com. Their reply was clear. "Death, before dishonor." came their reply.
Foolish bastards.... thought Nanashi as his spear pointed charge was nearing the Lysander. He still had no idea just exactically what he was planning to do once he arrived. Perhaps he had just grown suicidal? Perhaps.... but I find it unliky..... what am I thinking?
OOC Let me know if that post is ok, not sure. *Shrugs* I spent a good amount of time writing it XD.
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Post by MikDaTv on May 20, 2009 3:00:19 GMT -5
"incoming!" The helmsman shouted.
"Everyone hang on to something!" Jor shouted as the hail of turbolasers struck their forward shields. The ion cannons struck next and the shields went opaque under the stress. The bridge rocked "Shift coarse, 5 degrees port, get us out of their firing solution!"
The ship shifted slightly to the left and the few remaining turbolaser blasts sailed passed, grazing the shields slightly or missing completely. Also, as a side effect the two mass driver rounds from the Picard were off target. the first missed completely, passing through where the Voyager would have been. The second grazed and skipped off the starboard shields making a long indented gash across her dorsal surface above the hanger bay.
The helmsmen then saw the cloud of missiles headed for them. "inbound missiles."
The weapons officer turned. "Too close for countermeasures!"
"Evasive maneuvers! Shift us back 15 degrees starboard and give the engines a 10 second burst of 110%. Put the assault concussion missiles at the top of the PDS priorities. Re-task the turbolasers for premature detonation and target groups of missiles." Jor barked from his chair.
The Lysander Class's forward weapons shifted slightly to retarget, the incoming missile groups. The turbolasers cycled quickly, and fired a random pattern into the missiles. They weren't that effective since they weren't meant for long range missile defense but they took out a cluster of two from one of the Majestic's and 2 of the 8 fired from the nebula. It was obvious though that the cloud of fighter missiles would take some doing, or the Voyager would get smashed to bits.
"Another wave! Another Wave! Fighters fired a second wave of torpedoes. first wave still oncoming." the helmsman declared.
Jor sighed, he wanted to keep this card for when the enemy was behind him, but the spacing between the fighter volleys meant he had little choice. "Deploy the bravo counter measure. two of them."
The weapons officer frowned but nodded. he didn't want to use them any more then Jor did, but he knew it necessary too if they wanted to live past the first 5 minutes of this engagement. "Deploying!"
Two objects were ejected from the Voyager's hull from two of her airlocks. they were relatively small, about the size of an oil drum, with a large block engine at it's base. Rockets flared as the boosters at their base accelerated the missiles forward, past the Voyager's bow and into the space between the two engaging forces. Their engines cut out quickly, they weren't missiles, they just needed to get to a safe distance. Jor waited until the helmsmen told them the majority of the first wave was in range and gave the signal.
The first device flared brightly. the holographic systems on the Voyager flickered slightly as her sensors were blinded by the thermonuclear blast. The 50 megaton explosion ripped through space like a small sun going supernova. It was like a glowing orange ball, expanding outward at accelerating speeds. the missiles caught within it's blast radius were fried by the extreme gamma rays, and the EMP blinded sensors of both sides temporarily. Jor waited a few moments before he signaled the detonation of the second device.
The second device exploded just as the second wave of proton torpedo's was passing within it's radius. the two waves of proton torpedo's were decimated. less then a tenth of their number survived the two explosions.
The rest of the missiles ran into a cloud of particle weapon fire as the ACP Point Defense system kicked in. The turrets focused their fire based on proximity. And because each missile cluster was relatively small the many turrets could focus their fire much more effectively.
Two assault concussion missiles struck her dead to rights on the dorsal shields and exploded in a brilliant explosion. The ship rocked and the dorsal shields flared and rippled against the explosion, becoming almost solid white but they held. the hull under them was scorched and indented. The remaining proton torpedo's from the major waves struck her port side shields during her evasive maneuvers causing it to flare brightly a few times. the spacing between the missiles helped the shields channel the energy out and away from the ship and her heat sinks were handling the strain magnificently.
Meanwhile, outside, the poor lead warbird who was originally just the target of 36 missiles and the forward turbolaser fire of the Voyager found itself with 124 missiles inbound on it's general location thanks to the fighters trying to hide behind it. While the original 36 missiles could have easily been handled by the PDS, the 124 warheads, some of which weren't even aimed at the warbird, overwhelmed the PDS.
And the option of keeping the ship stationary instead of moving meant it's greatest advantage, which was it's speed and maneuverability, wasn't even being used. About the only good thing to come out of that decision was that the overwhelmed PDS of the warbird did manage to protect most of the fighters.
As the dust settled from the initial attacks Jor relaxed his grip on the arm rests of his chair. The helmsman turned in his chair. "forward shields at 20% sir, but the generator is charging. dorsal shields are nearly depleted but the hull is holding."
Jor breathed. apparently these Lysanders were all they were cracked up to be. "put us back on coarse, takes us through their center helm. flank speed."
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Post by Kayen/Saul/Katarina on May 20, 2009 17:36:46 GMT -5
Kayen growled again as the Aggressor Assault Fighter rocked in the launch tube as the mass driver tore across the ship and his right s-foil, even though it was folded inward, scratched against the launch tube. He quickly steadied his fighter and then he turned his head towards the Astromech that had been rigged as a co-pilot. It was not necessary, but it sure helped. "Reinforce our stabilizers!" The droid tooted and the plug in to the ship turned a few times, boosting the stabilizers as Kayen spoke directly to the bridge. "Jor... what are you planning old man? We're going to come apart in here!"
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Post by Elifain on May 23, 2009 3:18:20 GMT -5
The 5k ton slug that had hit the lysander exploded in a flash of light, as the proton bomb detonated. A few seconds later, the nukes went off. Elifain stared in shock as the twin nukes went off between the fleets. He quickly set his 15 cr-90's to move ahead of the warbird as a cover, as the fighters hiding behind it moved below the ship, and moved towards the enemy. GET ME THOSE TARGETING SOLUTIONS! he yelled at one of the control units near him, as the sensors came back on. The magestics took aim and launched their full compliment of concussion missiles, after firing their ion cannons. They also fired the Turbolasers again, and this time the picards added their mass driver rounds, and 2 more 5k ton rail gun rounds at the fleet. The leading warbird, however didn't get a chance to fire, as it took a majority of the missiles aimed for the fighters and those aimed for itself. It was heavily damaged on its foreward side, and was practically dead in the water. The other two however threw out all of their turbolaser fire onto the enemy ship. The nebula class launched another 10 assult concussion missiles, at the picard, in an attempt to disable it.
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Post by Zilfer Of Shadows... on May 23, 2009 12:37:27 GMT -5
Nanashi and his fellow pilots were blinded by the briliant flash that exploded not too far in front of them messing up the targeting system of thier ships. Nanashi was forced to resort to closing his eyes and relying on his instincts for the next few seconds as the firing ceased. He began to see blur as the firing continued it's assault between the two fleets.
"Can you savely proceed further?" asked Nanashi to his two wingmen. They were still floating behind him.
"Aye, we're only a bit dazed." came the reply. Nanashi looked forward they'd almost reached within 100 kilometers from the Lysander. They had some how managed to get somewhat above the Lysander's course, and the fleet's fire. "Time to move." said Nanashi as they continued their course, ahead of the the rest of the fleet by a good distance now to the Lysander.
Nanashi's fighter fleet fired one more volley of proton torpedoes, but this time it was accompanied by a timed and quick sucession second volley from his twenty StealthX's that had remained hidden in Elifain's fleet, which fired all three of their proton torpedoes each. The Group that had now just arrived at the position below the Lysander opened fire as well sending sixty proton torpedoes towards it's underside from dead space, and then broke their formation taking up different spots in a sort of "Halo".
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Post by MikDaTv on May 28, 2009 4:06:59 GMT -5
"Full port rudder!!! shunt all power from starboard engines to port." Jor shouted, sensing the next wave.
The ship shuddered as it turned suddenly to port, her starboard engines glaring against the blackness of space as they hauled the large ship around on it's graceful curve.
The ship was already blazing through space at a speed it wasn't designed for. The sudden turn bent the hull amidships slightly but it had the advantage of avoiding the mass driver rounds.
"Helm transfer command to the command chair!" Jor yelled through the sound of damage alarms and turbolaser strikes. "Skull squadron, you have a go to launch, first priority are inbound missiles. Stay safe out there CAG, don't stray to far from the nest."
Jor leaned back and let the command chair assume helm control. Jor laid in a new coarse which reversed the port turn and headed them for the edge of the planet at flank speed. "All batteries, fire at will. Weapons what else do you got?"
"two more nukes and a full load of conc's minus one sir." The weapons officer replied.
"Inbound, inbound, inbound!!! missile attack from below sir. rocket trails but no source." The sensor officer yelled.
The helmsman's console sparked and he shielded his face. "Forward shields at 5%"
Jor used the helm control to target the area where the mysterious missile attack had originated. "Weapons, deploy a nuke there. send another one into the cloud of missiles from the main fleet and take as many as you can out. Target all incoming missiles and all enemy ships and launch our full compliment of conc's."
The weapons officer nodded and did as orderd. The two remaining nukes blasted off headed for their designated targets. The first exploding somewhere below the Voyager where the missiles from the StealthX's had originated. The second detonated right in front of the main wave of the missiles from the republic fleet. It destroyed the leading group and blinded those behind it.
The Voyagers hull was bathed in fire, not just from the incoming turbolaser blasts impacting the shields and the point defense system firing in all directions, but the remaining assault concussion missiles launched from her bow, split into their clusters of 100 missiles and spread out. They weren't targeted at any one specific ship, but all of them. Fighters, cruisers, corvettes, they were all targeted by the missiles.
"Weapons away warmaster" The weapons officer announced.
Jor pushed the engines to their max as they blasted by the edge of the republic fleet on a coarse to skip off the planets atmosphere. "CAG, keep with us and land when we tell you too. Combat landings all around. Don't leave the safety of our guns." With that Jor cut the link to the fighters and turned to the comm officer. "commence communication jamming, all frequencies, all wavelengths."
The Voyager rocketed through space her forward shields failing and taking damage on all decks. Various points of her hull were opened to space and she started venting but her momentum carried her through. The organic skin covering her was adapting to the turbolasers, and absorbing some of the energy from their impacts.
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Post by Kayen/Saul/Katarina on May 28, 2009 17:38:02 GMT -5
Kayen's Aggressor Assault Fighter shot out of the launch tube followed by all twelve X-Wings of Skull Squadron. The S-Foils opened and the entire squad dove towards the incoming missiles, lasers firing in a stuttered pattern because it would only take one to detonate a normal missile. "Watch your range from the ship, Skulls!"
As he pulled the Rancor into a sharp spin, Kayen's target acquisition HUD blared. They were close to the fighters that were above Voyager, the same squad that he had detected the force from. "Skulls, stay on the missiles and then go after the fighters!" With a growl, Kayen boosted his engines and flew headfirst at the belly of Nanashi's fighter and when he was in range, Kayen fired off his laser cannons. Even if he missed, he had the element of surprise and he was on a freakin' crash course for Nanashi... he had broken orders and gotten lost in the adrenaline rush.
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Post by Elifain on Jun 3, 2009 23:50:53 GMT -5
ooc: according to odan thos, in our posts at the fleet tourny, nukes would have NO affect against missiles, due to hardening against them. When we argued about it, i dropped 2 nuclear fission bombs behind my ships (the IX-1000's engines) and the missiles fired at me by odan didn't get affected in the least. They wasn't blinded or anything, and thats what i am going with. bic: Elifains fleet moved closer together, and fired their turbolasers, ion cannons, and mass drivers ahead of them, towards the Lysander. The goal was to blast as many missiles out of the air as possible before they were close enough to strike the fleet. The fighters and frigates dropped behind the capitol ships, as the caps started firing their pds's straight ahead. The 2 picard class ships opened another salvo of mass driver rounds, and rail gun rounds again at the Lysander. The picards also used their 600 combined proton torpedo's, all targeting the Lysander, while another 40 targeted the fighters that had been released.
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