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by Kronos on Wed Aug 12, 2009 5:57 pm
...So what you're saying is? Yeah, my point in a nutshell is that the Azerians are a bunch of hypocritical morons...
The Technocratic Media had decried the simulated execution of a military officer; although the enemy had no way of capturing a military officer, the poignant imagery and context remained, further illustrating that, "the Azerians are a bunch of hypocritical morons..."
Noralisk Station hung in the void. Discounting its Commander's quaint personality, it was nothing special. No secret weapons or systems resided inside its cylindrical hull. The station's construction, following the generic MS-1S template, was straightforward with no space for frivolities. The cylindrical spoke began with a rounded cap, bulged abruptly outwards in the center, and tapered into a spindly mast of communications arrays. Twin three-fourths complete rings, connected by cable moorings, rotated in counterpoint around the upper and low sections of the station; each ring sprouted four stubby crenelations. All in all, the station measured half a kilometer high and two-hundred meters wide at its equator. The rings measured thirty meters in diameter, and they extended four-hundred meters outwards from the station.
Skume found himself standing in the center of Noralisk Station's azure-lit bridge. It extended across the width of the station's penultimate deck and radiated an opulence rarely found in technocratic installations.
The architecturally minded Commander Duke had installed rows of ornamented ionic columns, hiding unsightly electrical and coolant lines; he also placed a row of blast-shielded panoramic windows across the station's rotationally locked "planet" side, giving himself a stunning view of the Al-Hazred System from his command holo-tank.
Technocratic Gendarmes- soldiers clad in matte black gel-suits, sporting maroon berets, and carrying rail rifles- swung from their attentive stances behind the control room's colonnade and squatted, training their weapons the currently mysterious being. Staccato comm-link mutterings echoed across the room, "Hold fire... negative ID... wait until it makes a move."
"Cease fire!" bellowed Commander Duke, rising from his swivel-chair with an extended open right palm. The well-learned Commander recognized the Xindhi before it spoke, and he had acted accordingly. The Gendarmes snapped upright and saluted their Commander, chanting in unison, "Sorry sir!"
"My friend, Skall, err, Skume, what brings you here?" he quizzed, ushering the Xindhi towards the door to his private office. He slid the door open, and as he stepped inside, he mindfully added, "Watch your head."
Warning sirens blared and blast shutters slammed shut across the bridge's panoramic windows. "Sunova, this is a very bad time, Skume!" shouted Duke, as he hopped over his desk and engaged the intercom, "Red alert! All crew to battle stations!"
Noralisk station was far from being unarmed despite its small size; the ferocity of combat predicted during the Trantor-Technocracy Escalation had sparked a series of modernization and armament programs, some aimed at small outposts. Noralisk Station was going to give these programs their first field test.
The station's deflector screens were the first thing that activated. They shimmered into being; it was clearly visible that they were comprised of hundreds of layered hexagon panels, separated into three distinct tiers of defense. A further, invisible magnetic current surrounded the station.
The missile pods came second. They were tethered two-apiece to the ring crenelations, and they each held twenty-two ACS missiles, making for a staggering total of three-hundred-fifty-two missiles. A K-3 telemetry platform was tethered to each crenelation.
And finally, point-defense systems engaged along the perimeter of the station; their phased DE arrays stood ready to blast anything out of the sky.
The Azerian ships had a long way to travel before they reached the station, but the station's munitions didn't to reach them.
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Kronos on Wed Aug 12, 2009 7:01 pm, edited 1 time in total.
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