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"We are under full attack" Captain Pendergast said, his shields disrupting the long range targets, as the Enterprise V assumed its own faster than light drives active. "They have phase, and FTL Jammers, BUT, we can evade them," an ensign replied, as he activated the secondary drives, the massive battleship rocketed by the long range weapons. "Ensigon, could you cut the low level jamming, it appears that we are under some sort of hacking. Apparently their old, Microsoft based OS is incompatible with our custom systems. "Granted," the ensigon replied, as the first of the long range shots made the hits. "Railguns to port, all ships, evac the Enterprise V. This is not a place for a battle, BUT a massive slaughr. Set Animater reacotrs to 99%, set yeild to about... 500 terratons. We refuse to fight here. Alert fighters to ABM roles, they might send some sort of insane weapons, we have no records. Launch all Gundams, and Launch VF. Enterprise V is now evading, but their FTL boosters will be key," the commander said, his grim tone the current setting as the massive exploration ship assumed a red alert status, its anti-matter plant on overload now, the already voile 5000 tons of antimatter preparing to combine with its partner, as the effect would be noticeable on most sensors, the clear power of the impact easily stretching out to at least 300 AU, at the shortest of ranges.


"Granted". Pendergast's orders were surprising, as his cruiser's forward shields took damage, while the other Federation style ships found their phase cannons failing. "Phase emitters are jamming our weapons," shouted a weapons officer" "Adjust the levels of the Tronium-Phase Dimethel ray, that should allow us to modulate the shielding matrix, to produce a phase effect. Their jamming tactics are unique, but nothing new!" The massive counter-response, as various hidden fighters, in addition to gravity based sensors, gave the Federation ships a lock at the Trantor Fleet, the firing of phase canons in various frequencies blasting through space, the 10 AU cruisers well within their target ranges. "What the hell was that!" remarked the ship's AI, as the Enterprise V prepared to charge its reactor core, the shuttles, bombers, and fighters in mid transfer to the Dadelus class warship.

"Point defense status, NOW!" Pendergast ordered, as his missile and railguns impacted the ship interceptors, the railguns failing to hit, but the Mark IX "Planetbuster anti star ship missiles impacting the slow, predictable paths of the odd ship buster missiles. "ABM is at 99.9% for large objects. Their tactics are out of the old 2000s of Earth. They believe large missiles cannot be easily intercepted by gravity sensors, and multi terraton/low exaton level weapons. It is a sad thing, when a race like this does not understand their power." "Thank you, officer," Pendergast said, before ordering a standard gravity sweep, the false readings defeated again by the advanced Gravity based sensor grid. "They believe we use old style tactics, when with Gravity, one can see, and predict missile paths. Gundam and Valkyrie squads have been launched to deal with the shot down Gatebusters. As a sudden surprise, the first FTL Missile reappeared near one of the Dauntless class, but as a sudden moment, the Gundam fired the anti-matter warhead, as in an explosion of, upon later estimates, 100 terratons of energy, emerged, the gamma ray burst exploding within the close range fleet. "What in god's Name caused that burst," Pendergast said, the Asguard battleship ordering several Mobile Suits to assume defensive potions.

In space, a massive Gundam, this one covered in heavy armor, and atomic weaponry, as well as an anti-matter and reaction warhead, assumed a defensive position, the custom ABM "Royal Heart" ready to attack any of these "FTL" missiles, it seemed. Pilots in the fighters switched on their short range hyperdrives, the Variable Fighters blasting through probes with shots based on the pure gravity presence of the odd machines. "Medals for anyone who can kill 100 probes!" one man proclaimed over a laser point to point transmission, the various squadrons heading in various scrambles. It was a mess of a war, with the Trantor's heavy ship doctrine facing an old school, Jem Hadar style alliance. "Penergast, as soon as the Ent V blows, we use its explosion to rip a small hole in space, and FTL out of here," the chief engineer replied, his half baked plan a concern to the fleet. "Damnit, he said," "Send several fighter squads to break out. If they make it to a drop point, command needs to know, they must..." The order went out, as the last of the fighters flew from the Enterprise V, its squads ready to attempt a break out.

OOC: Need to work on it at a time more conducive to creativity...not done yet :p
Note: I dont use hacking in combat. I dislike it as a cop-out, and I devoted enough time to a counter that I know anybody can do it too.

Tripolitania always liked to waste it's obsolete munitions in the opening stages of a war, and the multi-megaton ordnance was perfectly suited to gutting fat targets built by a peacetime opponent. Thousands of rounds emerged from FTL: a mixture of sensor & grav decoys, guided mine submunitions, deployable sentry platforms, ECM platforms and MIRV submunitions emerged from FTL at 1 kilometer ranges or less, with sentry platforms emerging farther out so they could have actual targets to shoot. Ordnance used by Tripolitania was armored, shielded, guided with thruster capability by default, and armed, ECM, shield-cracker and MIRV by design variation.

Shield-crackers would dispense with any ships that attempted to raise them, blasting even planetary shield generators with the intensity of their surges. A shaped-charge megaton bomb could cut large asteriods in half, and would do the same with tiny ships. Other primitive nations required gigatons because of lazy weapons design that simply sought to make bigger warheads.

The random unpredictable pathing of the shells under the cover of sensor and grav jammers would enhance the efficacy of terminal evasive maneuvers for the final strikes. In the time it took for a gun to swivel on an object travelling at twenty-thousand meters per second (fractions of a second not countable on a chronometer), a ship would be blasted into a hulk by a multi-stage fusion detonation. Should the shells be farther out, terminal evasive maneuvers by a shell travelling at such blinding speed would be impossible to track.

Tripolitania had gone up against advanced nations before. Shields would deflect point-defense lasers for the few shots any system could get, and in the time it took for Trantorians to deploy gundams or fighters, the motherships would be aflame or destroyed. The bigger the warheads deployed against munitions, the higher the probability of collateral damage (teraton/exaton warheads would probably damage friendlies and the resulting radiation would be impossible to see through).

If Trantorians wanted to use teraton warheads perhaps they might commit a little fratricide on the way, since 1km was too close to use anything safely of a depleted uranium sliver or a beam weapon.

The first particle beam shots began arcing through the Trantorian fleet lines. Slower-than-light phase cannons (OOC: phase cannon?) were easily dodged in the 10AU distance. Energy weapons were too slow, rail guns were too slow. This assault had been well synchronized from the start, and most of the initial action would be in the first four seconds, when everything emerged from FTL at once, powered up and fired as quickly as the supercomputers could execute instructions. The recipients still required time to comprehend the sensor readings that were emerging from FTL, and by the time the radiation levels had stabilized to assemble a picture, shells would be down-range and materializing on the hulls of their enemies. Surprise attacks were never meant to be fair fights...

As the Gundam pilots focused, the sudden burst in Warp Energy forced Pendergast's hand, the self destruct of the first ship active. The Explosion force managed to destroy 4 of the Trantor Ships, their crews turned to ash by the powerful anti-matter explosive. As the energy surged, traveling at 20% of the speed of light, Pendergast ordered a retreat,the energy enough to rip open a hole in the cosmos. The Dadelus class vessel left space, with the wounded Promethus following them, two ships and the limited fighter and shuttle fleets escaping through the flames to parts unknown. As the mass-energy contuined to annihilate, the explosion spread out, the Trantor forces loosing the first battle. With two vessels in FTL, without return co-oridnates, it would take a month for them to return, and so this battle went on, unknown.

OOC: Subject to edit