Post by crystalwatcher on Apr 18, 2009 20:27:18 GMT -5
As the massive inter-spacial hole opened up the Incius-class Battle Friggat, Sunwish burst into n-space. The bridge seemed almost quite because all but the maitnence bots were inter connected to the ship's mainframe.
"Status," Commander Vigrash Milkosty requested. One of the tech officers responded almost instaintly, "All systems are green or better sir."
Making a grim smile Vig looked out at their target. Then time seemed to stand still. In reality only a minute passed, yet for the crew interconnected to the ship's mainframe who could with that link think and contemplate at Shpysonic speeds it seemed to last an eternity. In the worst of curcomstances a Gidash Battle Frigate could match any average enimy 5-1. Due to the Qia's limited tech that ratio flew up to 12-1. But they were ambushed and up against odds of 23-1. They had only 40 seconds to deploy defences to ready them selves for Enimy contact. They went into the fight only 4/5 prepared. The Sunwish's wing pannels opened to reveal the ship's Demon Slayers. Witch were two barrel hyper powered artillery cannons. The defencive shields, anti-fighter clusters, anti-transport clusters, and the anti-missel/torpedo clusters opened up and quickkly started to track. The massive Qia fleet opened fire as soon as the Sunwish in turn opened fire. Thousands of missles, space torpedoes, and Shield Eaters flew at the Sunwish as it's defences opened wide and roared defiance.
Most the missels and torpedoes stopped dead, nearly the rest hit the shield, and the rest of those just malfunctioned and detonated in mid-flight. Shield Eaters slammed into the Sunwish's Defence shield and hammered at it with the wrath of an entire fleet of planet-shockers. The Sunwish's shields were equipped with all the Gidash's nearly-inpenertrable shielding technoligy, and overwhelming fire power. As it dived into the main formation the side cannons opened fire, two of the Qia ships were hit on each side. Four flashes that seemed to blot out the sun flared briefly then the ships were simply no longer there.
"Status!"
"Shields are at 79%!"
"Launch Fighters!"
"Launching!"
Launch tubes opened up and Gidash fighters swarmed out of each of the close-fitting tubes. As the fourty or so fighters fanned out the Sunwish's defences screamed in defiance and the ship-to-ship batteries fired relentlessly, Qia ship after Qia ship vanished in blinding flashes of light as their fighters swarmed to meet the Gidash fighters. Anti-fighter weponry on both sides screamed as the lone ship lashed out at it's killers, Vigrash knew this was his ship's end but we was going to take as many of these fools with him as he possibly could. The rest of his crew also knew that... and thus shared his sentimate.
"Shield down to 56%!"
The Qia Shield Eaters were the only things that the Gidash had ever truely met that could wear away their shields. The first confrentation had made the Intelligiance officers gag and the general squeal. But the war had given Gidash a ever-expanding knowledge base and slowly gained allies. Alone the Qia might'of been able to win the war... albiet barely, but the far-flung Qia empire had brought many allies to the Gidash, yet also brought many to the Qia.
"Shield down to 43%!"
"37% casualty rate with the fighters!"
"Engines 3, 5, and 7 are down!"
Vig felt all of his missgiving about this simple operation come back to him. They were shared by everyone involved with the briefing, but he was the one who had been given the assignment. He was told that if he didn't report in on time then they'd know that Qia were in the area. "I'v always hated commanding troops." he muttered under his breadth. He was considered one of the ten best of the Gidash military. So this was what they condemmed him to. "Enimy casualties?"
"Over half their fleet has been destroyed sir!"
"Shields down to 19%! Shield boosts activated!"
"Port side Demon Slayer has been destroyed!"
"Hull breaches on decks 1-5!"
The shields were finaly failing. Sunwish was only a battle frigate. Not a guardian. For all their technilogical advantage Sunwish was going to be destryoed. "Prepare to abondon ship for all who wish it. Localise damaged areas for a better dispersed containment field!"
"Damage Localized!"
"Engines 1, 2, and 4, are down! 6 is still functional!"
"Aft wing destroyed!"
"Port stablizers disfunctional!"
"All fighters are destroyed!"
"5/7ths of the enimy fleet are destroyed!"
"One abandoner! His escape pod was destroyed!"
"Ship-to-ship batteries 1-19 destroyed!"
So this was it. Sunwish was on her last legs. All of her vaunted might had finaly given out after nearly twenty years of service.
"Engine 6 has died! StS batteries 22-59 destroyed!"
"Shields failing! Less then 3%!"
That was when the enimy wepons started to hit the hull. The bridge rocked as shield eaters connected. Vigrash could almost hear the screams as his people died as the engine rooms were breached, then the Sunwish started to descend.
"We're caught in the gravitational field of the planet!"
"Reverse thrusters are non-responsive!"
The nural net made the seconds into min-eternities. Then Vigrash spoke over all the speakers, "My brothers, my sisters. I have been proud to serve with you all. We knew this was a suicide mission. But your bravery will be remembered by any of the survivors. I wish you all luck. Let the creators be with us." He didn't tell them what the probable survival rate was. Even though it went through his head as his command seat strapped him down. it was less then 0.00000254%... Then the shoreline came into view. Then the Sunwish colided with the runway.
Vig was ripped from his command seat and flung at the bulkhead, the fron of the ship crumpled as the Duraloy Plating hit the ground. The flickering shields took most the impact but Vigrash didn't have time to consider this for he was uncouncieos.
"Status," Commander Vigrash Milkosty requested. One of the tech officers responded almost instaintly, "All systems are green or better sir."
Making a grim smile Vig looked out at their target. Then time seemed to stand still. In reality only a minute passed, yet for the crew interconnected to the ship's mainframe who could with that link think and contemplate at Shpysonic speeds it seemed to last an eternity. In the worst of curcomstances a Gidash Battle Frigate could match any average enimy 5-1. Due to the Qia's limited tech that ratio flew up to 12-1. But they were ambushed and up against odds of 23-1. They had only 40 seconds to deploy defences to ready them selves for Enimy contact. They went into the fight only 4/5 prepared. The Sunwish's wing pannels opened to reveal the ship's Demon Slayers. Witch were two barrel hyper powered artillery cannons. The defencive shields, anti-fighter clusters, anti-transport clusters, and the anti-missel/torpedo clusters opened up and quickkly started to track. The massive Qia fleet opened fire as soon as the Sunwish in turn opened fire. Thousands of missles, space torpedoes, and Shield Eaters flew at the Sunwish as it's defences opened wide and roared defiance.
Most the missels and torpedoes stopped dead, nearly the rest hit the shield, and the rest of those just malfunctioned and detonated in mid-flight. Shield Eaters slammed into the Sunwish's Defence shield and hammered at it with the wrath of an entire fleet of planet-shockers. The Sunwish's shields were equipped with all the Gidash's nearly-inpenertrable shielding technoligy, and overwhelming fire power. As it dived into the main formation the side cannons opened fire, two of the Qia ships were hit on each side. Four flashes that seemed to blot out the sun flared briefly then the ships were simply no longer there.
"Status!"
"Shields are at 79%!"
"Launch Fighters!"
"Launching!"
Launch tubes opened up and Gidash fighters swarmed out of each of the close-fitting tubes. As the fourty or so fighters fanned out the Sunwish's defences screamed in defiance and the ship-to-ship batteries fired relentlessly, Qia ship after Qia ship vanished in blinding flashes of light as their fighters swarmed to meet the Gidash fighters. Anti-fighter weponry on both sides screamed as the lone ship lashed out at it's killers, Vigrash knew this was his ship's end but we was going to take as many of these fools with him as he possibly could. The rest of his crew also knew that... and thus shared his sentimate.
"Shield down to 56%!"
The Qia Shield Eaters were the only things that the Gidash had ever truely met that could wear away their shields. The first confrentation had made the Intelligiance officers gag and the general squeal. But the war had given Gidash a ever-expanding knowledge base and slowly gained allies. Alone the Qia might'of been able to win the war... albiet barely, but the far-flung Qia empire had brought many allies to the Gidash, yet also brought many to the Qia.
"Shield down to 43%!"
"37% casualty rate with the fighters!"
"Engines 3, 5, and 7 are down!"
Vig felt all of his missgiving about this simple operation come back to him. They were shared by everyone involved with the briefing, but he was the one who had been given the assignment. He was told that if he didn't report in on time then they'd know that Qia were in the area. "I'v always hated commanding troops." he muttered under his breadth. He was considered one of the ten best of the Gidash military. So this was what they condemmed him to. "Enimy casualties?"
"Over half their fleet has been destroyed sir!"
"Shields down to 19%! Shield boosts activated!"
"Port side Demon Slayer has been destroyed!"
"Hull breaches on decks 1-5!"
The shields were finaly failing. Sunwish was only a battle frigate. Not a guardian. For all their technilogical advantage Sunwish was going to be destryoed. "Prepare to abondon ship for all who wish it. Localise damaged areas for a better dispersed containment field!"
"Damage Localized!"
"Engines 1, 2, and 4, are down! 6 is still functional!"
"Aft wing destroyed!"
"Port stablizers disfunctional!"
"All fighters are destroyed!"
"5/7ths of the enimy fleet are destroyed!"
"One abandoner! His escape pod was destroyed!"
"Ship-to-ship batteries 1-19 destroyed!"
So this was it. Sunwish was on her last legs. All of her vaunted might had finaly given out after nearly twenty years of service.
"Engine 6 has died! StS batteries 22-59 destroyed!"
"Shields failing! Less then 3%!"
That was when the enimy wepons started to hit the hull. The bridge rocked as shield eaters connected. Vigrash could almost hear the screams as his people died as the engine rooms were breached, then the Sunwish started to descend.
"We're caught in the gravitational field of the planet!"
"Reverse thrusters are non-responsive!"
The nural net made the seconds into min-eternities. Then Vigrash spoke over all the speakers, "My brothers, my sisters. I have been proud to serve with you all. We knew this was a suicide mission. But your bravery will be remembered by any of the survivors. I wish you all luck. Let the creators be with us." He didn't tell them what the probable survival rate was. Even though it went through his head as his command seat strapped him down. it was less then 0.00000254%... Then the shoreline came into view. Then the Sunwish colided with the runway.
Vig was ripped from his command seat and flung at the bulkhead, the fron of the ship crumpled as the Duraloy Plating hit the ground. The flickering shields took most the impact but Vigrash didn't have time to consider this for he was uncouncieos.