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"taskforce seven in position and ready for dimensional recall"

*Several mercenary ships maneuver into position in the Paylos Asteroid Belt, their prize Audemedon Carrier claimed and staffed with gunners.*

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Meanwhile in the Pogrill system, a total of five fleets of each species, headed by the Cantharan sub-gateship Eye of Doz, prepare their final assault on the Audemedon Gateship Iron Gale.

"Check six," a lone Admiral aboard the Eye of Doz speaks into the fleet comm. channel, "we are ready."

With a scream, the entire combined armada jumps into hyperspace, screaming towards the Gateship.....

Several seconds later the armada emerges from hyperspace, along with a few extra ships that joined them along the way.

"Let's do this!"

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"Let's do this!"
-Styth
Titan A.E.

Emulation is the best form of flattery.

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Throughout their history these "unenlightened" beings have continually opposed and fought abuses of power wrought by their own bretheren. We, as the prophets would do well to learn from these Humans.
-Final statement of the Salrilian reformist Sirthis shortly before his execution.

::Captain Pharris is standing on the bridge, still wearing his powered bodysuit. the metal is scorched, still smoking from recent hits. He pulls off his helmet and shoulders his pulse rifle. he goes to cotton moose to make the final boarding report.::

Sir, the ship is secure, no friendly casualties, no prisoners. We finished the final sweep and we have locked down the central computer systems. The boarding parties have this thing locked down. The engineering crews are figuring it out, and the gunners are nicely tucked in. You have your bridge crew nicely set up, so it looks like we're in bussiness.

as for the assault ships, The cruisers and fighters are secure in the hangar bay and the gunships are docked on the the docking collars. All ships are locked down and ready for the jump. All we have to do is wait for the recall.

Where do you need me?

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The fleet comes out of Hyperspace two thousand kilometers away from the gateship. Even at this distance the leviathan dwarfs the combined armada that has been sent to destroy it. As the carriers settle into normal space, the hangar bay doors open, and wings of fighters launch and begin to form up just ahead of the line. Cruisers and Gunships begin to form up, and the fleet begins to cruise in formation towards their target.

Cruising close to the gateship, the 9th Audemedon Assault wing has been caught by surprise. The fleet begins to form up to repel the attackers, but the approaching armada is an imposing number of ships, and they are pressing hard to reach the Gateship.

"Range to fleet, fifeteen hundred kilometers, ETA six minutes."
the Admiral of the fleet examined the layout of his fleet. a line, seventeen miles long spread out on either side of the flagship. The center of the line was made up mostly of carriers and battleships, slow moving and powerful, while the wings were made of smaller and faster ships, to encourage encirlement. fighters cruised a few miles ahead, providing a buffer zone for the fleet, moving at high speed towards their target.

"Order the fighters to fall back into the fleet, missile frigates move up, load full salvos of Long Range Missles, and acquire targets. How long till we will be in range for the LRMs?"

The CIC was filled with radio chatter as the communications officers relayed the orders through the tremendous fleet. One of the officers turned to the Admiral and said:
"Frigates will achieve LRM range in fourty five seconds, sir"
the admiral thought for a moment, and replied:
"Very good, fire when ready, Two full salvos, then hold"

As the frigates entered firing range, they each fired their lethal salvo of twelve LRMs and prepared to fire the second. On the flagship's screen, more than two thousand missles began streaming across the void in space, speeding across the gap towards the Aud fleet. The auds however, could give very little in response, their fleet much better suited to close combat.

The admiral watched on his radar screen as the Aud fleet began to turn into a cloud of ECM jamming and countermeasures. He looked up at the visual display, and he could see the distince blue-green flash of the fleet defence guns, filling the space ahead of the ships with deadly flak, hoping to knock down incoming missles... The range closed, and the missles crossed to within five hundred miles of the fleet as soon as they did, the Aud's interceptor missles began to stream out of the fleet to stay the hail of LRMs that were rapidly closing.

As the missles grew closer, the auds began pouring out flak, a last ditch effort to shield the ships as much as possible. It was working, nearly seven hundred missles had either lost their solution or been destroyed, but it was not enough, more than two thousand had been launched. The missles streamed forward, oblivious to the millions of shards of jagged metal that whizzed around them, unvexed by the aud fighters that tried in vain to catch up to them and shoot them down. They closed in, their numbers decreasing steadily as more and more flak sped towards them, but it was too late. one thousand four hundred LRM's sped throught the flak and started slamming into the aud ships. The missles slammed hard into the shields and armour of the aud fleet, tearing into the ships, ravaging their shields. The missles mostly targeted the big tough carriers, which took the beating and continued forward, but many stray missles, confused by the countermeasures slammed through a squad of Cruisers, rending them asunder.

The armada had its first kills of the day.

*A squadron of Phylydion Stinger-class medium fighters drops out of Omni space in striking range of an Audemedon ship that strayed from their main formation. The fighters launch their missles and move in to strafe the ship. They pull High Commander Cicion has authorized us to assist in the attack and provide defense for the fleet. *The fighters spot a formation of Audemedon fighters that penetrated the outer fleet and is strafing the big ships. The Jackals move in and destroy the enemy fighters.*

Darn, I made a big mistake(Wiping out some text) in my last message and unregistered users aren't allowed to edit their posts! It was supposed to read, "They pull out just as the ship explodes.*" Then the words I said.

*Several Cantharan frigates swoop in, blasters screaming, and start hammering away at the Audemedon rear flank*

*The gateship starts dimensional recall as hundreds of fighters and warships spew out of the green, swirling effigies of the warp fold*

"Now, Pharris, NOW!!!" *one of the carriers turns about, pummeling the gateship interior with wultiple trazer beams and striking it with a barrage of rockets. Several hidden fighters swing out of the vents.*

"Commander, throw your forces at the forward Audemedon flank and engage them at point-blank range. Once they've locked on to you, pull out. If they follow you, that'll leave a gap in their formation that we can fly through to get to that gateship." In response, a wing of gunboats lead by the Eye of Doz itself break off and start throwing their eight around.

Meanwhile, amidst the explosions and ever-expanding clouds of debris, the Gateship Iron Gale roll slightly and ejects the rogue carrier into deep space at super-light speeds.

*Admiral Moose is surprised at the ineffectiveness of Pharris's surprise attack, as the backstabbing weapons barely leave a scratch*

"Pharris, I want you to get out of there and rejoin fleets position. Something is wrong her-" The Trazer beams from Pharris's carrier flicker and die out as a wing of Audemedon Gunships glide confidentially by*
*A shrikeolator pulse materializes from the Gateship's interior and starts homing in on the carrier*
"It's a trap! All units pull back! They were expecting this all along!"

*All power readings from Pharris's carrier drop to nil before it is thrown out of the system*

*A barrage of Insa fire strikes the side of Moose's Command ship The Pournelle. The Pournelle engags it's super-light drives and starts a barrel roll towards a local Audemedon Carrier, narrowly dodging another barrage on Insa fire*



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"Let's do this!"
-Styth
Titan A.E.

[This message has been edited by Cotton Moose (edited 07-03-2000).]

The klaxons shriek loudly, and soon Captain Pharris comes back into conciousness. He looks at the shattered bridge of the captured Aud Carrier. The red emergency lighting casts an eeriely dim light over the smoldering bridge. Several crew members are frantically trying to restore power to the ship's systems.
"What the Hell happened!?!"
The Chief engineer looks up from his panel and replies, his voice breaking:
"everything is dead. Everything. It was a trap, those gunships came out of nowhere and hosed us down, then we got shot out of the gateship. I have no clue where we are, and we have no power to stop ourselves, those damn Gunboats took out a cooling grid, and our reactor shut down when it started to melt. I can't fix it from here, the intercom is dead, and the bulkhead doors are sealed, so I think we may have a pressure leak somewhere. I don't know what to do. We're stuck on the bridge, but the doors are sealed. From what I can guess, there's enough air in here for about eight hours. In short, we're ****ed."

The Captain looked around at the broken, twisted metal of the bridge. In a corner, three bodies were lying, their uniform jackets pulled over their faces. the remaining bridge crew members sat idly, rooting through the mangled wreckage that once was the nerve center of their carrier.

"What about emergency power? this thing's got to have batteries or reserve generators somewhere. I mean, the lights are working..."
the engineer looked blank, and replied, sullenly
"yeah, I checked them out on the schimatics, they are battery powered, I even pulled one off the wall to check, see?"

He gestured to a light fixture, sitting in pieces on his station, the Kellide power cell clearly visible.

"I checked the doors, but the turbolift is jammed, and the doors to this level are locked tight. I'm not sure whether there is air behind them, and I didn't want to find out. The only leads I found was one of the cable conduits. it seems to have survived, and it is pressurised. However, I've been studying these schimatics, and I can't tell where they go, this ship is like a maze. It's design makes no sense, not to me anyway. These Auds are crazy..."

"It's all right, Auds are crazy, this whole thing is crazy."

The captain sat down in the captains console. It was crazy, they had disabled the carrier and shot it out without so much as a seconds warning. He shuddered at the thought of what would be happenening to the fleet... The cruisers and fighters he had launched into the inside of the gateship might have escaped, but only outside, into the recalled fleets of Aud ships. They would be facing more than half of the Aud Navy... The captain shuddered at the thought, making himself concentrate on the task at hand...



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*An Audemedon gunship approaches the disabled carrier to blast it into oblivion. Suddenly four fighters scream out from behind a floating wreck and open fire. The gunship gouts fire from its engines before exploding. The rest of Jackal Squadron forms up to escort the carrier out of harm's way.* This is Tykar. Carrier, do you read? *The comm is clouded with static, then, a very faint voice comes over.* "We read you, Jackal Squadron. We've managed to jury-rig a comm unit together from parts we found. We're all trapped in different parts of the ship. Just get someone to tow us away from the battle, and make sure no ships get to us. Thanks for the assistance." Copy, carrier. You're quite welcome. The battle is not going well, and before we hightail it we're helping out some ships and escorting the troop transports. Jackal Leader out.

How did jackal squadron catch up the the Carrier when it was shot out of the system in hyperspace?

*In an unexpected move the Gateship, escorted by only six carriers and a trio of destroyers, moves toward the nebulae of megella*



"Oh crap! If that thing reaches the clouds, our sensors will be unable to track it. Captain, Send everything you have to stop it!"

*a voice in the background*

"We can't there are just too many Audemedon ships blocking us. We can't get through! There's no clear path!"

"Well make a path! Increase forward firepower!"

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"Let's do this!"
-Styth
Titan A.E.

[This message has been edited by Cotton Moose (edited 07-04-2000).]

*Amidst the battle, a squadron of Modified Cantharan Gunships rolls by another barrage of insa fire. Ignoring the heavy attention the Audemedon fighters and Intercepters are paying them, the Gunships speed past, barely making a blur on the Audemedons' sensors*

"Second barrage batteries fire full spread; what's our ETA on A-core recharge?"

"We're ready" an engineer says *burst of static*

"fire"

*blasts of pure antimatter simultaneously emerge from the gunships, destabilizing the hull on one of the Audemedon Carriers. It's orange pating buckles briefly and then the whole ship implodes violently.*

*The gunships maneuver through a hail of trazor fire; once they clear it, they start making a heading towards the gateship itself*

*one of the ensigns whistles softly* "look at the size of that thing! Core status: maximum power"

"fire"

*another blast of antimatter lances out towards the gateship, yet it bounces off the shields like a skipping stone on a pond*

"Now that's what I call a defense matrix! All G7 ships under my command rendevous at....*burst of static* these coordinates. I've cleared a path to th gateship. Repeat: I have cleared a path to the gate-"

*BOOM*

*static*....

*A barrage of rockets impacts against the Gateship's Engine Core Ring, debris (and quite a nasty amount of antimatter) go flying and the entire section is exposed to space. Caught right between two closing flanks of rocket frigates, the Gateship somehow manages to outmaneuver the vessels and begins traveling towards a previously undetected planet*

"That must be their base of operations. Let's have some fun with the Audemedons; wolf battalion, let's clean house." *
The Rocket Frigates break off their hopeless attck on the Gateship and start blasting away at the escorting carriers*

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"Let's do this!"
-Styth
Titan A.E.

On the bridge of the Barbarossa, First Officer Alec Malar watched in horror as his captain's Aud carrier was ripped open by a flight of Audemedon gunships.

"****! Make for the Carrier, we have to cover them!"

As the Helmsman pulled the ship around to face the carrier, The XO grabbed the intercom and ordered engineering to bring the reactor to 110% of maximum. He tightened his seat belts as the engines kicked in, forcing the Gunship through the fleet of Aud carriers being recalled into the gateship. The ECM officer turned from his console and yelled over the din of the afterburners.

"Sir! The power readings on the Carrier just went through the floor! She can't stand much more from those gunships!"

The XO cursed under his breath. He watched the screen, watching the ship grow closer.

"standby on the railguns and forward Plasma Batteries... fire on my mark..."

The ship grew larger and larger on the screen. THe Barbarossa was going to pass between the gunships and the Carrier, hoping to block some fire while reaping havoc on the Auds. They closed the distance within thirty seconds, and as they pulled in and began their run, a swirling green light began to surround the Captured carrier.

"Break! Break! they're jumping, get clear of the warp fold!"

The collision alarm sounded as the ship entered a hard banked turn to escape the field. The entire bridge crew watched in utter surprise as the ship was enveloped by the warp fold and shot out of the system.

acting quickly, the XO grabbed the radio comm and called out:

"All Combined ships, this is the SS Barbarossa! Captain Pharris and the Captured Aud carrier have been disabled and jumped out! All united ships still inside the gateship, form up near the gate, we need to get out of here!"

The ships that had been jumped in with the Aud carrier Raced to form up. The captured Aud fighters were almost all destroyed. There were two ishinian cruisers, a gaitori gunboat, and the SS Barbarossa. they formed up close, and turned to the main door of the gateship.

"****! It's packed full, we'll never make it, call the ships, tell them to follow us out!"

The ships broke off and began to weave through the densely packed Aud fleet, searching for an exit. The Auds were trying very hard to stop them. despite the evasive manouvers, they were takin serious hits. The First officer of the Barbarossa Watched the Gaitori Gunboat pop like a balloon as six Aud fighters closed in and strafed it.

"Keeo going, increase active jamming, head for one of the Acess tunnels!!"

They raced on, the last few Aud fighters went down, the heavy cruisers were visibly damaged, leaving a trail of gas and debris in their engine wash. The ships closed in and began flying close to the wall of the warp chamber, looking for a way out. One of the cruisers came on the line, heavy with static:

"I found a port big enough, follow us in!"

The Barbarossa followed the Cruisers in, barely squeezing through the narrow pasageway, tearing pipes and cables that blocked their way. The Ishinian cruiser came back on the line.

"This thing widens out in a bit, when we get there, let's park these things and give the engineers a chance to slather some duct tape over the holes before we go on."

The lead cruiser broke out into the wide area and ltched gently onto the wall, facing one of the exits. the barbarossa came in and hovered in the middle waiting. The XO grabbed the mic and called to the ishinians:

"Now what do we do?"

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As the fleet closes in to try and finish off the defence fleet, a voice comes over the comm frequency, barely audible over the static.

"This is the XO of the Barbarossa! All ships fall back I repeat, all ships fall back!! It's another trap! There are still twelve carriers inside the gateship! All ships fall back!"

Just then, the Barbarossa comes out of one of the acess tunnels, trailing two ishinian cruisers and several dozen Aud fighters. Now clear of the gateship, it they fire up their hyper-light drives and blast forward to be clear of the tailing fighters and gateship defence guns.

*Onboard the Cantharan Gunship Silent Breath of Zom, a rogue captain receives an incoming transmission*
"Sir, this is the Eye of Doz. We just took another wave of fighters to the main reactors *static* ...don't know how long we can keep this interference up."

*A loud explosion is heard through the thick static along with a very loud expletive*

"We've lost our Main reactors along with half of the ship! Casualty reports coming in from all over the ship. Power is down. OH CRAP! THE JUMPGATE INTERFERENCE GENERATORS HAVE ALL BEEN BLOWN TO HELL!" *static*

*prak'Tella watches in horror as the Gateship suddenly comes to life as it's main dimensional drives start to function again. Destroyers, carriers, cruisers, fighters numbering in the thousands start spewing out of the jump gate.*

"Good god!" Exclaims one of prak's crew members. "Their numbers are so thick they are blocking out the starlight! We can't see where the gateship is anymore!"

"Then we shall fight in the shade." prak says dauntingly.

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I've twice been conquered.
Three times more.
Never again shall humanity purge me.
And never the pfhor.
-Durandal

HAHA THE TURQUOISE HOLE WITH HIS MDT NAVY COMES AND ANNHILATES EVERYTHING! then whurp realizes that he's on the wrong storyboard, and heads back to EVO board

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[This message has been edited by Commodore Ambrose (edited 07-18-2000).]

Noted...

BTW Narrator, do you want some of the spam here deleted? Indicate the posts which should be removed (even this one) and they will go.

Sargantanus is right. Emulation is the greatest form of flattery.

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Sundered Angel,
The One and Only

Ares Webboard Moderator, and all-around Nice Guy

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"I don't understand why he works so hard on a device to duplicate a sound so easily made by hand and armpit."
-Barrin, progress report

*Just as the Audemedon Gunship prepares to finish off the crippled Barberosa, a cloud of plasma washes it away.*

"What the hell--" Pharris begins "--those are Salrilian weapons!" A single salrilian stargate decloakes, Instantly forming the churning swirls of subspace. A trio of carriers pops out, escorted by a wing of cruisers and a squadron of gunships.

The salrilian vessels waste no time, tearing into the audemedon vessels and reducing their impressive fighters to orange glitter. A familiar face materializes on the screens.

"Knock knock. Pest control."

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I do not suffer from insanity
I enjoy every minute of it

-Cantharan Commodore za'Grom
After the capture of Earth