185c05 No.32963 [View All]
The Endymion Galaxy, home to hundreds of species and thousands of habitable worlds. The Council of Civilized Worlds and Fleets or CCWF have for centuries presided over it's disparate and at times fractious member worlds for mutual prosperity to a greater or lesser degree.
All that changed roughly a decade when the Dris'tarr, extragalatic invaders, came to Endymion. They conquered planets uncaring about the original inhabitants, enslaving or killing them as they went. The massive bureaucracies of the CCWF were slow moving and few had a clear picture of the situation as reports from the fringe systems were unclear. Thus the Dris' Tarr continued only marginally slowed taking more and more systems. Few people and races cared unless they were close to proximity, after all only the fringes were affected, nonetheless the invaders pushed deeper. Then a second front was opened and the people began to panic. These monsters had more than one fleet, and there were coordinating to take as much territory as possible. The CCWF began to move, most of it's member states mobilizing for war, something they were unused too, for it had been absent for a long time, and stagnation had set in.
The CCWF tried it's best to stop the forces, but their small peacekeeping fleet was annihilated at battle of Aceldama, due to commander hubris and overall shoddy tactics. This panicking the populace even more, as shortly thereafter a third invasion theatre opened in earnest. The Dris'Tarr slowly but inexorably crushing races and fleet piecemeal before moving on to the next target. For several months it seemed all was lost.
The tipping point was at the battle of Drakhisia. A Solarian fringe colony, Drakhisia was of little import on the galactic scale, but it was held be a ancient and venerable race. The Solarians had not been idle in the years since the Dris'Tarr showed themselves, They had been mobilizing like the younger races, and had been taking their old warfleet out of mothballs. Their warfleet met the first invasion fleet of the enemy, their strongest, fastest and best, and turned the battle in a slaughterhouse. The Solarians were still unused to war after such a long sojourn, but they had enough ships and technology to give the invaders a true fight, the first real one they had had. Still it would not have been a victory without the CCWF member nations all sending support, to flank the Dris'Tarr and crush them utterly.
It's been five years since that battle, and the CCWF has been pushing back with all it's might against the Dris'Tarr. However two new fronts have opened up, and the CCWF and it's major races and nation cannot be everywhere. Thus the CCWF has signed into effect emergency bill 40056. A call to arms o all races has been enacted, mixed fleets have been decreed for those who cannot send a full fleet on their own. You and your fellow captains are one such fleet, stationed at Starbase 591. The Dris'Tarr are moving into the region, and it will be your job to push them back. Good luck.
Captain Name:(duh)
Captain Fluff: (any notable history, and characterization of the captain)
Race: (what you are and brief description of culture and how your body works)
Ship Name:(Duh)
Ship Fluff:(history if it has one, notable features, and class of ship)
Ship classification goes:
Frigate < Destroyer < Light Cruiser < Cruiser < Dreadnought < Battleship
Light Cruisers on up can be carriers barring racial exceptions.
Accepting for initial muster
1 Cruiser (flagship)
2 Light Cruisers
4 Destroyers
Any number of frigates
You will only start off with one ship, but may gain more if you do something noteworthy.
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185c05 No.33522
 | Rolled 71, 59 = 130 (2d100) |
Captain Name: Nikolai
Class: Frigate
Armament: 2 Missile launchers
Defenses: Heavy Armor, Light shields
Auxillaries: Improved engine, Improved sensors, 3 Swarm Missile packs
Bonuses and Eccentricities:
+/-Missile Massacre: Your ship is built for missiles, it gains bonuses to using them. Missile is only proper weapon though, Ursidae need no other and want no other!
+/- War Hero: Your captain is a war hero and gets bonuses to recruitment and acquisitions. This also draws trouble to him, however.
+/- Four years? Bah!: The Ursidae are still ailing from the reunification. Their support varies based on how much investment the people have abroad when home is in very bad no good shape. Roll extra d100 every 3 turns for their interest.
#1-2 Nikolai orders his crew to unload both missile pods on the light cruiser. missile after missile is launched from the Ursidaen vessel.
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185c05 No.33526
Dara if you can post here please do so. I will give you until tomorrow to do so before I npc you for a second time.
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185c05 No.33568
| Rolled 76, 98 = 174 (2d100) |
>>33526
Rolling for The Pride of Der'Takt
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185c05 No.33627
>>33457
>>33475
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Round 2
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The REd lightning move to disengage from it's enemy. The damaged Dris'Tarr frigate move to pursue, but too slowly, because the Red Lightning's guns have already turned and focused on it as it attempted to close. The flash of the laser and barely audible whump of the coilgun are heard as the gunnery officer laughs. The laser lancing through what's left of the Dris'tarr Frigate's shields and slagging it's armor, the coilgun following it up utterly destroying the beleaguered craft, turning it into a drifting hulk in space. Shortly there after the Red Lightning has to dodge a massive EMP wave as it pulls close to the Ion Doctor for spot repairs.
The Belt Skimmer engages two enemy frigates alone, a bad match by most standards, however Avacress had taken the measure of his enemies. The missiles were easily intercepted by the Skimmer's flak thrower and only one of the frigate's lasers could hit with regularity. Coupled with the repair drones of the Ion Doctor making sot repairs onto the hull his situation looked better. His ship closed into prime firing range and unloaded, the heavy coilgun devastating one of the frigate's armor and the light coilgun that followed it up taking down the shields in a lucky fluke. Four lasers followed up after contributed by the V1 and Irmanda, finishing what the skimmer started, ripping the ship in half with raw firepower.
The Pride of Der'Takt presented it's broadside to the oncoming destroyer and started to circle it while firing. It scored some glancing hits as did it's foe but nothing definitive occurred.
The Resolute defiance charged the Dris'Tarr light cruiser, despite the anomalous power spike centered around it's gun turrets. Surely the heavy armor and shields would hold against anything the Invader scum could bring to bear. Just ass the Defiance was about turn off so it could bring it's guns to bear and let the Crusader fire it's Plasma, the Dris'tarr ship unleashed hell. It's lasers, glutted on power and running so hot as start deforming their respective turrets, lash out at the cruiser in a continuous and powerful wide band stream, It's coilguns likewise fire repeatedly, a stream of ferro-magnetic slugs slamming into the Defiance destructively and often smashing into armor and causing hideous damage. While the Ion Doctor's drone attempt to help they are marginalized by the pdf of the cruiser, scoring only minor blows, While the Doblestnyy hits the cruiser with's is missles that does little to abate the onslaught as the heavy armor catches the damage entirely, likewise it's defenses mostly catch the Xyklon-V's as well, only the missile launcher getting hit, irrelevant compared to the heavier bore guns slamming into the flagship. Still the punishment dealt is within the tolerances of the massive cruiser, until disaster strikes. Perhaps the damage from the onslaught addled the computer of the Defiance, perhaps the attitude thrusters had been hit making the bulky ship even less agile, or perhaps the Ultian gunner was just impatient, regardless the Plasma torpedo of the Crusader fired early, night before the turn off had begun, catching the Defiance full on, knifing deep into it hitting it's reactor critically. While the emergency procedures kept it from going super critical and detonating, they could do nothing to stop the EMP wave the damage generated. The Ion Doctor was far enough away and quick enough to dodge the wave. The Crusader and Kutjim were not Even as the Kutjim unloaded on the light cruiser, fulfilling it's part of the coordinated strike, it's EWF suite, datalink and shield dropped, as did the Crusader's.
Every Ship in the 13th watches in horror as the Defiance is shot by the Crusader and then resultant wave bringing down the datalink. Comms are scrambled and everyone is alone until they can be restored.
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Casualties and Damage
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Dris'Tarr
Frigate 1 Destroyed
Frigate 2 Destroyed
Destroyer armor 90%
Light Cruiser
Missile Launcher destroyed, Heavy Lasers on Cooldown and Damaged, Heavy Coilguns on Cooldown and Damaged, Armor 30%, Shields 0%(EMP)
13th
Resolute Defiance, Armor Critically breached PHALANX imoperable, shields 0%, Armor 13%, Reactor Damaged, Lasers and Coilguns inoperable(lack of power)
Crusader Shields down
Eccentricity: Team Killer- You have a reputation for hurting your allies. It's going to be hard to make people like you.
Kutjim, EWF down, Datalink down, Shields down
Belt Skimmer, armor 75%, Shields 70%, -2 AP rounds
The Pride of Der'Takt, Sheilds 95%
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185c05 No.33628
The Dris'Tarr fleet has had enough and attempt Emergency FTL. Ships may attempt to intercept IF in range and time. Kutjim, Ion Doctor, Belt Skimmer and Xyklon may try. Roll d100 if you wish too it will by default be the closest target.
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185c05 No.33629
>>33628
additionally the Red lightning may try
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185c05 No.33630
| Rolled 5 (1d100) |
>>33629
Captain Name: Sezz "Lightning" Shellmar
Captain Fluff: Captain Sezz used to be a racer, and a damn good one at that. Speed was always his game, be it running, land-crafts, sea-crafts aircrafts or spacecrafts, if it moves he had to push it to its limit. And push he did, earning several medals both on his home planet and out in the wider sector of space he comes from. However with the war needing more and more pilots he put his career aside to aid his people, all while finding new ways to push the limits in terms of speed.
Race: Sitazz. An insectoid race with, mostly vestigial, wings. While known throughout the sector as curious explorers the Sitazz has took to war like fish to water after finding a knack for hit and run tactics. And while normally each Sitazz planet has been independent, the war has brought them together in a loose federation, unified in purpose while each trying to upclass the other for fame and glory.
Ship Name: Red Lightning
Ship Fluff: Frigate. Red Lightning was built by request for Sezz, and his request was not unexpected, he wanted it to be fast, the fastest of its class. In order to accommodate it was fitted with what, to the Sitazz at least, was highly experimental technology. As a result, it's faster than any other Sitazz frigate ever built, but sometimes a tad bit unpredictable and have come with some extra bits and pieces that Sezz is not very familiar with.
Class: Frigate
Armament: 1 Laser, 1 Coilgun(DAMAGED)
Defenses: Light Armor(50%), Light Shields(GONE)
Auxillaries: (Prototype) Fusion Engine mk II, Improved sensors
Bonuses and Eccentricities:
+/- Speedfreak: Your captain is an adrenal junkie obsessed with going fast, this gives him bonuses to piloting an maneuvering, but causes him to get into trouble when his attention wanders out of combat.(low rolls) Joyriding is still a crime after all….
+/- Guerrilla Warfare Experts: You are very good at hitting the enemy when least expected then running. However you are not good in a stand up fight and it shows.
+/- Prototype Drive: Your ships has a prototypical drive that gives it great speed, however you had to skimp on the armor and defenses to fit it, and you've not had adequate testing for it going at max speed. In fact no one has gotten it up to maximum output, as the ship started to shake when too pressed. It's still leagues faster than any other Sitazz design.
COME BACK HERE YOU COWARDS! Damaged ship be damned we're giving them one last kicking, ENGINES TO MAXIMUM!
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185c05 No.33631
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185c05 No.33632
| Rolled 74 (1d100) |
>>33628
Bombers and fighters are still swarming the Light Cruiser. Finish it off.
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185c05 No.33633
| Rolled 83 (1d100) |
>>33628
"Don't let them escape! Gun down as many as you can, men!"
[Heavy Coilgun]
[Light Coilgun]
[48 AP Rounds]
[YCTUP]
[1 Improved Sensor/Tracking Array
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185c05 No.33634
| Rolled 58 (1d100) |
>>33627
Captain Name: Turglana Guundarrgh
ALL FLUFF: http://pastebin.com/sBQeVehL
Class: Cruiser
Armament: 4 Laser Arrays, 4 Medium Coilguns(Broadsides Only) (No Power)
Defenses: Heavy Armor, Medium Shield
Auxiliaries: "Phalanx Shield" power armor and shield focuser system. (Borked to bork and back)
Bonuses and Eccentricities:
-Dying Race: There are very few of you and your kind left, getting replacements for anything is correspondingly more difficult.
+/- Zealotry of War: You see this war as a holy war against the enemy, those that get in the way at best don't understand, at worst are in league with them. You gain a 3 round bonus at the start of all combat with the Dris'Tarr. Conversely low rolls out of combat will lead to political snafus.
+/- BFS: Your ship is large for a cruiser and packs a commensurate amount of guns and ammo, however it is slow and has poor maneuverability. This is before you cut power to them to power the armor and shield focusing of the phalanx. You gain a bonus to broadsides volleys and a malus towards movement. Furthermore should the Armor suffer a catastrophic breach(crit hit) the phalanx system will be unusable.
1. We shall not sit here and let the enemy escape, and I'll be damned if we get eliminated by our own allies not being able to drive. Warm up the boarding pods and the crew, we're cutting into that ship's hull and boarding it! Better to die fighting then wait here in this husk of a ship and die!
[Board the light Cruiser]
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185c05 No.33635
| Rolled 70, 64 = 134 (2d100) |
Captain Name: Yrlix-Vran
Class: Destroyer
Armament: 1 Missile Launcher, 1 Laser Array, 1 Coilgun
Defenses: Medium Armor, Medium Shield
Auxillaries: Electronic warfare Suite
Bonuses and Eccentricities:
+/-Mind not your Own: Marshons have a direct line to the best and brightest in their race. Bolstering their efforts on good rolls. However the process is not without baggage, and can manifest in horrific flashbacks.
-Lazy: Your commander is a lazy shit. Rolls out of combat suffer for it.
+Odd profile: Your ship is harder to hit because of it's odd shape.
>>33630
1-2. The sensors on the Xyklon-V light up as the Red Lightning's warp drive picks up . . .but they also notice their ship seems to twisting in space
"The fuck is that ship doing.
Holy shit, one of its thruster's jammed on and its pointing at the cruiser. If that thing sets off it'll rip both of their ships to shreds.
Fuck that noise, we can't lose the cruiser stop it! FIRE ON THE ENGINES."
The Xyklon-V tries to target the Red Lightning's warp engines section with a well placed laser shot. . .and hopefully not blow it up in the process. Or miss.
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185c05 No.33667
>>33628
>>33629
Summercat and Morgoth if you do not post by 7 pm Est tomorrow I will consider it that your captains did not decide to try and stop the Light Cruiser.
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185c05 No.33672
| Rolled 65 (1d100) |
>>33667
>>33627
Captain Name: 'Standing Bubble' or Captain Bubble
Captain Fluff: In one of the few conflicts about a hundred years ago Captain Bubble descended on a group of rebels who experimented on their fellow Ultians to create living ships. Their confused cries told him of the violence and confusion involved in their birthing and the whole of group and their creations were cleansed without the mercy that would usually have been merited any misguided Ultian. He had assumed to prepare a very early retirement until this conflict arose.
Race: The ocean planet of Ulti, home of the Ultians is a fruitful world of calm waves. Aquanoids rumored to possess extremely long lives who usually dwelt near the bottom of their oceans, they have never been seen without their opaque bubble-helmet suits on in their contacts with outside but are known to possess minor telekinetic and telepathic abilities that enabled them to have a generally peaceful history. Some Ultians have been seen with very small suits while others have possessed very large ones, when questioned they answer that the suits are made to fit the job required of them.
Making the leap from ships meant to withstand pressure to ships meant for space travel was quite difficult as well as being introduced to lasers being implemented as long range instead of the staple undersea Ultian weapon; torpedoes and fighters. All the sonic weaponry they had developed for battle in the oceans of Ulti were quite useless outside of close combat and suits to maintain a moisture level for the sea dwelling Ultians had to be produced. They seek peace and believe that combining their efforts with the other races is the best way to achieve it.
Ship Name: UTB Crusader
Ship Fluff: Light Cruiser
The Crusader was outfitted with a torpedo bay in the front of the vessel to house the array of plasma torpedoes that would make for extremely difficult targets even for fighters and point-defense turrets. Armor was invested as well as shield arrays and Point Defense Turrets to cover all our known bases and allow us to get in their faces. An array of lasers was added to provide some kind of range weaponry almost as an afterthought.
Class: Light Cruiser
Armament: 1 Plasma Torpedo launcher, 2 Laser Arrays
Defenses: Heavy Armor, 2 Medium Shields, 2 PDF Arrays
Auxiliaries:
Bonuses and Eccentricities:
-Life in a Bubble: Given the nature of your people's reliance on suits, hull breach where shrapnel is flying is especially catastrophic in the way of casualties.
+Long Lived: Your people have incredibly long lives, meaning replacing skilled personnel is easier.
+/- That's a BFG: You ship is more or less built around your plasma torpedo launcher, everything else tacked on as an after thought. As such the redundancies on your main gun making it nigh impossible to detonate on a critical failure, however on low rolls your ship will usually have an error with another of it's less important systems.
Eccentricity: Team Killer- You have a reputation for hurting your allies. It's going to be hard to make people like you.
Maneuvering I 6/10
Shields down
"Barnacles…" Well can't let that light cruiser escape
1 Get in there and blast the light cruiser's engines with our plasma torpedos.
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185c05 No.33677
| Rolled 9 (1d100) |
>>33628
>ANS Kujtim, modified/prototype Betejian Sulmues|Command class
>Captain Iye Sheptuar ( fish'Heshtar kre'Jeshter ko'Akullta ) Commanding
>Class: Destroyer
>Armament: 1Heavy Laser 2 Light coilguns
>Defenses: Light Armor, Light Shielding, PDF Array
>Auxillaries:(prototype) Improved Electronics warfare Suite, (prototype) Datalink
>Bonuses and Eccentricities:
>-Dated Tactics: The Beteje simply do not get conventional warfare. Their standardized ship building with boarding craft and their immense losses and Aceldama reflect this. Minuses to sue and application of (modern) technology and tactics.
>+/-Survivor: Your captain survived against long odds. He extends this toward his crew, but has bouts of crippling PTSD on low rolls.
>+Command ship: This ship was designed as a step towards a proper flagship for the new Beteje fleet. Gain bonuses coordinating fleet actions.
>=Homeworld Notified
>EWF down, Datalink down, Shields down
"Tactical, full weapons fire on that light cruiser!"
>1Heavy Laser 2 Light coilguns
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185c05 No.33681
| Rolled 95, 33 = 128 (2d100) |
Captain Name: Nikolai
Class: Frigate
Armament: 2 Missile launchers
Defenses: Heavy Armor, Light shields
Auxillaries: Improved engine, Improved sensors, 3 Swarm Missile packs
Bonuses and Eccentricities:
+/-Missile Massacre: Your ship is built for missiles, it gains bonuses to using them. Missile is only proper weapon though, Ursidae need no other and want no other!
+/- War Hero: Your captain is a war hero and gets bonuses to recruitment and acquisitions. This also draws trouble to him, however.
+/- Four years? Bah!: The Ursidae are still ailing from the reunification. Their support varies based on how much investment the people have abroad when home is in very bad no good shape. Roll extra d100 every 3 turns for their interest.
#1-2 captain Nikolai orders all missiles unleashed and targets the light cruisers engines as it turns away
#3 Four years? Bah!
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185c05 No.33682
| Rolled 62 (1d100) |
>>33681
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185c05 No.33727
>>33681
>>33682
Just a note you are not in a position to intercept anyone, also your eccentricity roll only applies to out of combat turns.
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185c05 No.33728
| Rolled 84, 49, 39 = 172 (3d100) |
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Reaction Round
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The Beltskimmer snap fires it's guns at the fleeing frigate. It's Armor piercing rounds do considerable damage to the ship, however the guns did not cripple it enough to prevent it's escape.
The Red Lightning does an about turn and high burn to try and intercept the cruiser, however the rapid shaking from the speed coupled with the damage already sustained to the hull cause the main cpu to cut off, setting the frigate on a collision course for the gutted Resolute defiance. A fatal ramming incident was only narrowly cut off by the Xyklon-V's laser striking through the waning shields and cutting the engine apart, followed by a kinetic slug knocking the lightning away. This saved both ships, but the Lightning is now in much the same shape and the Defiance, gutted and in dire need of repairs from a proper shipyard.
WHile this occurs the Kutjim, Ion Doctor and Crusader try to stop the Dris'tarr light Cruiser from escaping. The Crew of the Kutjim still reeling from the loss of much of their experimental equipment, miss horribly. The Crusader interdicts with it'slasers, but the plasma cannon cannot be recharged quickly enough to fire. The ion doctor's drones are fought off by the PDF arrays until the ship jumps out, much more wounded than before, but still able to crawl away.
With the Pride of Der'takt's failure to cut off the enemy destroyer as well, the Dris'tarr fleet, what is left of it has escaped. The 13th then redeploys back to Starbase 591 evena s the recovery fleet comes in to save the hulks and crew of the downed ships and to salvage the Drs'tarr vessels as best they can.
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591 Conference Room
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Admiral Ak'sala is sitting at the head of the room ,the wizened Arjunae displaying clear agitation at the results of the mission. She begins simply, "What happened?" Before any captain can answer she continues. "Why do I have the Ken'Gar sovereignty breathing down my neck over the loss of their fleet, and how did we lose a full-sized cruiser to an enemy fleet half your size?" She waits for the replies of her subordinates clearly unhappy.
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World Rolls
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Ken'Gar Anger
Ak'sala's response
Notice
+????
-?????
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185c05 No.33736
>>33728
"Look lady, I didn't get sent over here as no fleet commander but I got enough sense to see what the hell happened out there.
So, the Ken'Gar fleet calls for aid and what do we do? Well instead of trying to port in as close as possible to shore em up, someone had the bright idea to pop outta warp behind the enemy. I'm betting outta some idea to flank em or some shit like that. Well, it ain't work, and they just rolled on over and fucked the Ken'Gar while most of our ships were either too slow or outta range to make a difference in time.
Now here's the funny part after that. So we engage the enemy fleet and things are going not so bad. But get this, I think that enemy light cruiser stopped to redirect power to the weapons systems. But for some damned reason our own broadside Cruiser decided to rush up to it as close as possible. The hell was that shit about? So it got shot to pieces. Also one of our own damned light cruisers fucked up its targeting system and blasted the hell outta our ship. Someone fucking fix that, damn.
So yeah that's what happened. Got a pretty nasty fucking pounding, but hey, least we took down one of their destroyers. Or was that their frigate. . ."
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185c05 No.33737
>>33728
"Poor tactical analysis by Fleet Commander, Systems malfunctions on several ships. Ken'Gar have [no direct translation, approximation is "fucking horrible garbage useless"] ships"
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185c05 No.33739
>>33728
>>33736
"This one will give comment. The fleet commander set our warp exit to a flanking position but did not account for the distance to enemy compared to optimal firing distances and Ken'Gar fleet capabilities compared to enemy fleet capabilities. Beginning of battle went sub-optimally but not inadequately. Then ship designation Crusader loosed a volley and emp wave into the rear of ship designation Resolute Defiance. If not for the sudden retreat of enemy forces there would be a high chance the Defiance would have been destroyed. [Translation unavailable; Closest approximation 'end of statement'] "
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185c05 No.33740
>>33728
Captain Guundarrgh rises slowly from his seat in the conference room, his body covered in many bandages and a few slings from the result of the horrible damage his ship suffered in the battle. A brief crackle comes from his universal translator before Galactic Base, the nominal trade and communication language of the known galaxy, follows.
"This, like many errors in military history, can be blamed sorely upon bad information, and the resulting decisions made from that. Bad information on the actual ability of our Ken'Gar allies ability to fight the enemy supporting a decision to avoid the normally suicidal tactic of jumping into an enemy fleet, bad jump telemetry putting us off course by several kilometers of our intended targets; This entity will admit that some of the calls made can be blamed upon its decisions, but the battle as a whole went awash due to bad information beforehand and sheer bad luck. Our esteemed colleges the Yrlix-Vran like to talk as though the actions of the fleet were no fault of their own, yet their voices raised no objection to the plans made. Plans, that I might add, had to be formulated as soon as we jumped in, out of position and ill-informed of the capabilities of our allies, and our enemies.
If the Ken'gar wish to look for a target to blame, tell them to look to the Dris'Tarr, for it was they who destroyed their ships, regardless of the 13th's involvement in the battle actions or not. They came to their skies to burn their world, much as they had ours, so any anger the Ken'Gar possess should be directed towards our common enemy.
The Resolute Defiance was lost in a gambit to disable the enemy light cruiser for a more accurate study by our scientist and engineers, when the Crusader's gunner let loose a errant plasma round into its unprotected rear. This was not intentional, and to blame the Crusader's crew, or anyone associated with them is sheer stupidity. We are fighting a war against an enemy that seeks our extermination, to focus our anger, our rage, on each other only makes our annihilation that much easier for them.
War has no times for politics Admiral, and nor do you. You want to blame someone for this loss? Blame the Dris'Tarr, and blame the fickle gods of our world for turning their backs on us this day. Better to unite the fleet in their hatred of the enemy then to divide them after a Pyrrhic Victory."
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185c05 No.33753
>>33740
"Are you trying to blame any us for this shit?" the typically firebrand captain rerorts. "The fuck you talking about pal. We ain't the fleet commander. We ain't even the one who set this shit up.
You didn't even tell us where you planned to pop us off warp. You just gave us all the coordinates and said 'lets all warp out here' and by the time we did get outta warp it was too late. Yeah we didn't even up exactly in your planned coordinates, but that didn't help either.
By the time any of us could object we had already been set in motion.
And who the hell said anything about jumping into the enemy fleet anyway. If we jumped into the Ken'Gar fleet to link up with em maybe they'd still probably be around. That's probably what they're pissed about."
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185c05 No.33761
>>33753
"You are part of the fleet, the datalink ensured constant communications, if you and your apparently astute tacticians thought something wrong, why did you not say something previously? With the bad warp telemetry we got we would've most likely ended up just warping into the enemy's kill-zone regardless, so I would've rather tired to preserve my combat effective fleet then try to save our erstwhile allies ineffective one. They might not be here, but if we jumped in at the other coordinates, you wouldn't be either."
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185c05 No.33765
>>33728
A deep baritone resonates from the grill of the suit.
"The battle report put forth is quite clear. We arrived on site at the same time as the enemy fleet. They exploited our lack of experience and our bad luck."
"The Ken'Gar no doubt want more resources devoted to protecting their world. You do not, I believe, have any to spare and need an answer to give them. Here is my answer. We can't be wasting time and ships on them and they can't risk devoting further man-hours to building another fleet if those primitive ships are the best they have."
"…What we can understand is that their industry is better put to something other then ship construction and that the Dris'Tarr may have arrived simply to destroy the Ken'Gar fleet and to put them into a panic to deprive us of their considerable Mineral output. So getting into a panic and wasting energy is exactly what the Dris'tarr hope will happen."
"I suggest they put their efforts towards a new strategy. If they can produce weapons and ships more suited to hit and run tactics of guerrilla warfare then they can more effectively delay a Dris'tarr invasion until reinforcements can arrive. I would suggest gunboats, fighters, and mines along the most likely routes the enemy will take to reach the interiors of Sector 591 since I do not believe the Dris'tarr possess the power to enter a system within its gravity well safely. Even the imagined threat of mines disguised as debris throughout their approach should be enough to slow an advance since the Dris'tarr seem experienced enough to not ignore a potential danger."
>>33740
"I hope you crew and vessel are recovering well Captain Guundarrgh."
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185c05 No.33778
>>33761
"Bullshit, we might got datalink you didn't even tell us where we was popping out. You told nobody about the how or the where. We ain't mind readers.
And honestly, with the combined guns both our fleets would have have between us and then, being in close proximity to them would have been good for us and bad for them."
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185c05 No.33780
>>33761
>>33778
We already outnumbered their ships and their guns, but we chose to face them fucking piece meal. First the Ken'gar, then the lighter ships, and then the Cruiser. If we hit em like a brick wall with all our ships at once they woulda been fucking wrecked."
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185c05 No.33789
>>33765
"Thank you captain bubble, we are getting by as well as one can in war, lets just practice that maneuver again before we try it."
The Giant molluscoid says as it winks one of its several eyes at the suit
>>33780
>>33778
"Yes, yes, more astute observations made after the fact, which are about as useful as the Ken'gar ships were. The datalink ensured that all ships received the jump telemetry, that is why we set it up, if you cared not enough to read it that is no fault of mine. If you wish to contribute to the strategy for the next engagement, please do, but if all you plan on doing is criticizing choices you could've impacted but didn't, then you are only wasting this panel's time."
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185c05 No.33796
>>33789
"What the fuck is this chicken shit.
Are you seeing this shit Admiral? What kind of fleet commander puts the blame on his goddamn subordinates for not catching his
decisions?
This fuck is literally saying this whole thing is our fault for following his orders? Fucking bullshit.
The whole goddamn point of this panel is to review exactly what the fuck went wrong back there after it happened. And all we should do is shut up and not even mention what the hell happened? If that's what we're supposed to do then this is a fucking waste of time.
This ain't no democracy, this is a goddamn fleet. If the fleet commander won't take responsibility for his actions, then fuck this shit."
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185c05 No.33797
>>33789
"Look Lady, are we gonna have to follow this asshole just because he happened to have the biggest ship?
If leadership boils down to which nation forks up the most cash for the largest ship and this guy isn't even willing to review and improve from mistakes but deny them and shift the blame, then we're going to see this happen over and over.
He ain't even using it right."
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185c05 No.33801
>>33796
>>33797
"I would expect someone with such precognitive abilities to speak up before the battle was joined, not some spineless worm that will only complain after the fact. I blame not the fleet for following my orders, I do however rebuke you for not sharing your ideas before the battle, as astute as your tactical assessments apparently are. War requires men of action, not useless sacs of skin that only follow orders and then complain about the result of the orders they followed."
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185c05 No.33802
>>33801
"Yeah well fuck you to, 'Commander'.
Oh, by the way Admiral, that whole thing about giving us access to the plans via datalink?
It's a load of crock.
>>33362
>>33373
>>33375
"Here's the data record from our ships log, captured right from the commanders own datalink.
Orders of battle were only given after the jump. The decision and details of where and how we would exit jump were known only to him. The only thing we were given were the coordinates where to jump >>33362. Nothing more, until we had already exited warp and then the orders were given.
The alien stands up. "You are a liar, a coward, and an incompetent who willingly blames subordinates and throws away the value of allies with ease. I don't blame the Ken'gar for abandoning us from this, certainly my people will hear of this as well.
We did not come here to waste resources under an incompetent commander, and if CCWF wants to give titles to whoever can throw in the bigger ship then we might as well go home and just build a bigger ship."
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185c05 No.33804
>>33802
"You can stop with the blatant power grab, your incompetence and inability to process orders is no fault of my own. You want a bigger ship, go and get one, but the Resolute belongs to the Midloathians, not some race of conniving skin sacks that would rather stab their "allies" in the back for their own gain then fight a war."
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185c05 No.33805
>>33804
"Power grab? Incompetence? Clearly you're even more delusional than you let on.
We followed your orders. YOUR orders, and now you're openly blaming us for doing so. Fuck, if we didn't stop the Red Lightning from ramming into your half wrecked ship you wouldn't even be here to talk about it.
And fuck your ship too. You allowed a single light cruiser to nearly blow your ship to kingdom come, even outnumbering it in size and flanked with two other light cruisers, running a broadside ship headlong into their guns even after they had been overcharged. I wouldn't want to get near that massive floating coffin.
You are a danger to those you profess to be "allies" with and those under your command, you openly show disdain to the Ken'Gar and shunt all fault of their fleets destruction on them, rather than your own ineptitude, and then dare to call your own subordinates incompetent for having followed your orders faithfully.
I would do a disservice to my people and to the CWS to remain under your command or in this fleet a moment longer. You have lead our allies, your ship, and this fleet to the brink of ruin."
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185c05 No.33807
>>33805
>>33804
Yrlix is correct. You made very bad decisions. And you can't blame anyone else for them.
>b-b-but my subordinates didn't tell me what to do
No shit sherlock you are the commander. You saying it's your subordinates fault for not telling you the better plan is th exact same as admitting that you are incompetent and incapable of command.
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185c05 No.33810
>>33805
"My allies are not incompetent, merely you are. I deflected no blame of what happened from my personage, but if you claim to have known what was the right course of action, then why did you hold your tongue though out the entire battle? I hold no enimity for the Ken'gar, they knew the limitations if their ships and chose to engage the Dris'tarr anyway, that is why they lost their ships, and regardless of if we jumped in front of the enemy fleet they would have been destroyed anyway, as that is why the Dris'tarr where even there. The disservice you do your crew, Y'rlix, is to lead them at all.
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185c05 No.33811
>>33810
"You're a goddamn moron. Trying to blame me or anyone else for your fucking incompetence is proof enough, but as I had proven there was no way for any of us to object. By the time you had given us the orders we had already left warp exactly where you wanted us to be. Information you kept privvy to yourself and a choice you made alone.
No one had any opportunity to object whatsoever, until it was too late.
And to claim that it was inevitable that the Ken'gar were to be destroyed is exactly the type of inexcusable self-righteousness that you refuse to back down from. Rather than face the fucking consequences of your actions, you have the gall to blame me for it?
You're blaming someone for calling you out on your mistakes, are you a fucking child?
I fucking stopped the goddamn Red Lightning from wrecking your ass, while you sent fucking shuttlecraft to their death trying to board a ship that wasn't even disabled. Who's the incompetent one here?
The Ken'gar sought our aid. Their ships would have survived, even just a few more, had we given it to them by supporting them in a unified formation rather than feeding our ships piece meal to the enemy. That you see it as inevitable and not a consequence of your choices is unforgivable.
That is exactly how a fleet half our combined size was able to cause this much damage, and that you refuse to see it or man up to it is why you are as much a danger to this fleet as the Dris'tarr."
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185c05 No.33812
>>33807
"I am merely pointing out the futility of Y'rilix's tirade, which serves no point but to generate dissent, he has spent more time talking of himself and the way the battle should have been fought rather then what went wrong and where the fleet is going from here."
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185c05 No.33813
>>33804
>>33805
>>33807
>>33789
>>33810
"With all due respect we have to face the reef-out of our actions. Captain Guundarrgh will likely not be able to lead the fleet in the next engagement with the damage his ship has sustained, for good or bad, someone else will have to assume leadership of the 13th. Temporary or otherwise."
"This makeshift composition was always bound to have difficulties with our histories and cultures giving us considerably different ideals. Regardless, each of our peoples have contributed a void-worthy vessel and without a clear choice in succession we fall to the choice of the admiral and the military mindset which leads to the inevitable suggestion that Captain Amman-15 assume leadership of the 13th if the next enemy fleet should rear its ugly head."
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185c05 No.33814
>>33812
"As far as I can tell I'm the only one even acknowledging that something did go horribly wrong. Unlike you who would like to blame everything on bad ships, poor luck, or more prominently, the fault of those under your command.
You refuse to see that anything went wrong in this battle in so far as your shit decisions, and you refuse to learn from them. "
>>33813
"Fucking hell, just get anyone other than this man baby to lead. Even a child would be more fit to lead than this imbecile."
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185c05 No.33816
>>33814
"Do not Associated yourself with the rest of the fleet, they are of a much higher caliber than you. The Admiral asked for what happened, and why it happens. Not your pontification an extrapolation of a series of obvious mistakes. Not to mention the height of pretentiousness that you exhibit by rationalizing snap decisions as irrational actions. Nor should you try to disguise your attempts at discrediting my person is as nothing more than trying to advance your own position in the Fleet, we should be led buy another of our number until the Resolute is in fighting shape again, so long as it is not the sole member of the fleet who sees only to complain of actions after the fact and to shoot his own allies. "
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185c05 No.33817
>>33814
>>33816
The Admiral chitters, "Enough, both of you. I expect my captains to act like adults capable of a rational analysis of what went wrong and why, not for them too act spawnlings just out of the breeding pits, so new they cannot help but spew their digestive vitriol out at random! Quiet, I've heard enough from each of you. Now do any other captains have anything relevant to say?
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185c05 No.33831
>>33817
The dead fleets left alot of scrap and potentially technology behind with the dead ships. I think we should focus on salvage operations. And if those fail at least jury rigging the dead ships cores and engines to work as mines and explode on the next enemy fleet that comes here.
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185c05 No.33833
>>33831
>>33817
We should let the Ken'gar look at them as well, the sooner they can leapfrog to our tech level the better.
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185c05 No.33835
>>33833
Most of those ships are Ken'gar, I doubt they'd want to visit their own graveyard.
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185c05 No.33837
>>33835
Studying impact sites and blast holes can do wonders for building better armor, which they surely need.
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185c05 No.35179
Admiral Ak'sala after some deliberation names Amman-15 ass acting Fleet leader for the 13th.
No one is sent back or fired but Midloathians and the Sitazz both need heavy reparis before fleet actions can be taken. The Defiance is nearly gutted and will require a near total rebuild, while a new drive system is needed for the Red Lightning. Given that the prototypes was at this juncture unique, a more conventional engine would be necessary.
The Fleet is for the moment licking it's wounds, the lion's share of the salvage given to the Ken'Gar to placate them for the loss of their fleet.
The 478th held off the probe Helena station with minimal losses.
Contact has been lost with the Marano Colonies. The Dris'tar seem to have landed at several ruin sites and utterly destroyed most of the settlements on planet.
The 478th is en route to deny them any assets.
The 13th, bloodied, demoralized and nearly broken are allowed time to rest and prepare.
Homeworlds Notified: Beteje (Summercat), Ultia (Morgoth), Kontia (Tansen)
Morgoth Gains: Vilified: People really dislike you for some reason. A LOT.
The Red Lightning will either need to send for a new engine or somehow buy one before repairs can be completed.
The Resolute Defiance will take some time to repair, However the Ultians will both be footing the bill and lending expertise to the endeavor. However if the Midloathians want the cruiser's "Phalanx shield" operational they will need to secure techs of their own for it, as the technology is completely foreign to others in the theatre.
Conventional repairs
Red Lightning 2 turns
Resolute Defiance 10 Turns
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185c05 No.35180
| Rolled 81, 14 = 95 (2d100) |
>>35179
Captain Name: Captain Amman-15
Captain Fluff: The fifteenth Amman, or void drone, of the captain level. She was specifically picked out by older Captain Amman and a Geneticist drone. She was then thrust into his study to command a ship under the tutelage of her elder with the aid of all the knowledge of voidcraft, tactics, and military doctrine available. Upon her tenth year of life she was put into the combat simulations where she showed spectacular results against a variety of threats both solo and in team based simulations. It was noted by the Commander drones that she had a tendancy to attempt to keep her comrades alive even when the simulation was designed to cause a certain amount of casualties, or even a suicide run. Upon her graduation she was put in charge of a ship suited for this purcurluar quirk in personality.
Race: Giltrazzi, a hive based insectoid species. They have a highly structured society based on the type of drone that is born, which is further enhanced by the use of genetic engineering to create new types of drones including those more suitible for living in void craft. Mainly use pheremons to communicate. Drones carry the common look of being quadrapedal with two arms, black carapace, multi-lensed eyes and furry antenna.
Ship Name: HCS Ion Doctor
Ship Fluff: A Light Cruiser focused on the carrying, maintenance, and deployment of drone fighters and support drones used to keep the ships of the fleet in top shape.
Class: Light Carrier
Armament: 1 Laser Array
Defenses: Medium armor, PDF array. 1 Medium Shield Emitter
Auxillaries: 3 Fighter wings, 2 Bomber wings, 1 Recovery wing
Bonuses and Eccentricities:
+/-No Drone Left Behind!: You gain bonuses to repairing and recovery of ships and their personnel, however you cannot willingly leave someone behind, ever.
+Replaceable: Your combat drones and pilots are easily replaced, as are most of the officers and enlisted who are not scientists or high up in the chain of command. Bonuses to recruiting more crew and combat drones.
1&2. Begin filling out forms 139-BA, 199-X, and 119.H, and R-1 to inform Hive High Naval Command of the state of the Ion Doctor and it's crew, the state of the 13th, the result of the battle, and to request establishment of a resupply and reinforcement chain.
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185c05 No.35261
Captain Name: Yrlix-Vran
Class: Destroyer
Armament: 1 Missile Launcher, 1 Laser Array, 1 Coilgun
Defenses: Medium Armor, Medium Shield
Auxillaries: Electronic warfare Suite
Bonuses and Eccentricities:
+/-Mind not your Own: Marshons have a direct line to the best and brightest in their race. Bolstering their efforts on good rolls. However the process is not without baggage, and can manifest in horrific flashbacks.
-Lazy: Your commander is a lazy shit. Rolls out of combat suffer for it.
+Odd profile: Your ship is harder to hit because of it's odd shape.
Rolled 68, 59 = 127 (2d100)
1. Yrlix-Vran orders the ship to go rescuing escape pods.
Both to rescue allies and capture some enemies.
"You fucks ever seen a female Dris'tarr? Well, me either. Let's go see if they have any in some escape pods floating around.
Do they even have females?"
2. Yrlix-Vran sends a message home detailing the, in no small words, "utter incompetence" of the fleet leader and the disaster of their first battle.
But since there's nothing better for him to but stay the course, he asks for a fancy new Gyroscopic Drive for the ship to make turns and evasions faster. Dodging things seems to have been quite useful in escaping the battle unscathed.
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