EpsilonEta Posted April 17, 2016 Posted April 17, 2016 Location: A08 Tags: Spaceship The Aliens attacking Kawashita last week are back. Fleet battle Ravens capital ship is too damaged to use so she is giving orders from inside the space station. We can't retreat again. We have to many damaged ships who can't follow. Then why did we retreat in the first place? We aren't exactly in a better position now. Don't question your superiors. It's okay. I encourage questions, we all have to learn. The retreat bought time to regroup and get information on the enemy. Damaged ships are being repaired at this station, many had been lost had we continued fighting. We also learned from ALIEN who the enemy was and some of there most common tactics. She start the holografic war table. As you can see the enemy outnumber us by 2 to 1. They also have a capital ship which we can't match. The good news is that they jumped so fast after taking the wrong planet their weapons can't have fully charged yet. We also haven't had time to evacuate our medium damaged ships for Sorn which mean they can help defend the station. It also mean the ships I called to escort the damaged ships to Sorn are on their way here. We need to hold out until then to stand a chance of winning this. She zoom out. This is how we will do that. When the separatists are within long range all ships will fire main weapons. I do not expect many hits but we may get lucky. Above all, it will look like we are desperate. We fire one more round at long range and then start to move away as if we where to retreat back to B08. As we already got away once they will pursue us rather then attack the station. It will take time for their larger ships to get to us but we will have to defend from fighter and small ships. They will be more then us but we have support from the larger ships and will be able to hold out till our larger ships from the MANTIS border arrive and attack from behind. And so the battle begin. All Kawashita ships fire two rounds of main weapons against the largest separatist ships. Only three hits but all three did critical damage. As Raven had guessed they didn't have full charge on shields/defense weapons either. The attack also broke up there formations which bought valuable time. The Kawashita ships then start to move away from the station as if they where retreating again. A group of separatists are breaking of from the main fleet and are going for the space station. Divert our incoming ships to go after the smaller squad. They won't get there in time. Send back two ships to defend the station. That would give away our fake retreat. Their entire fleet could go for the station. Maybe, yes... So, send our fastest ships at the last minute . Ma'am, they are the least armored. They wont stand a chance against separator cruisers. At this point it's sacrificing damaged ships and personal on the station or sacrificing two warships with crew. It's not an easy choice. The two ships turn around just as the Separatist fighters reach the Kawashita ships. Then the smaller Separatist squad get in range of the station. To their surprise, all medium damaged ships and some heavy damaged ones open fire. The easy kill turn into a fierce battle. Soon after, the two extra ships join in too. At this rate we will defeat them at the cost of all ships and much of the station. We are holding out for the border ships. They should be here any time now. Sir, I see them. But what are the other signals? Those are MANTIS ships! Hail them! This is captain Ashida of the... What's the name of the station? My ship is on repair. Nice to know you “Captain Ashida of the”. We know you are in trouble and came to help. How did you learn of this. It's a military secret... Seriously Captain, your security suck. We hack your computers easier than you log on. What!? How is... Calm down. This is Captain Blake of the border guard and before Fleet Captain Raven execute someone I want to say that the MANTIS Captain is joking. I told him of the alien attack and they wanted to help escort the damaged ships. This is unacceptable... Normally I'd agree but now I'm happy for all the help we can get. Welcome to the battle Captain. I know I have no authority to order your ships but we could really need some help here. Taking down an alien Fleet just made this trip a lot more interesting. We are happy to help but any suicide orders will be ignored. Rodger that. Synchronizing target data. I need you to take out enemy ship 2-0-3. All border ships, fire when in range. Thanks to the border ships the separatist take heavy damage before retreating. Do not pursue. Damaged ships stay at the station, The rest attack the main enemy force. Don't take me wrong but that doesn't look like a winnable fight. Unless Kawashita have super weapons we haven't uncovered yet that is. Keep your distance and use your higher acceleration. We are waiting for reinforcement. Copy, Fleet Captain. What reinforcements? The pirate hunter ships are small and agile. They will at most help us with the fighters. We need something bigger to take out that Mother ship. I know. I have called [removed to keep the story exiting] for that. The two Human squads attack from different directions and manage to hold out until... Unknown ships detected. Get a visual. It's an ALIEN dreadnaught with two battle cruisers. This battle just got even. Finaly I get to do a build when the alien and Kawashita fleets are in the same system. (missed it three times before) I have been watching Knights of Sidonia lately which inspired to make a war room scenario this time. In the end it got to much text and to few builds (I ment to do brickbuilt ship fights) Anyway, this is what I actually built this week: And this is how I made the light effects (quite simple) Quote
Kodan Black Posted April 17, 2016 Posted April 17, 2016 Wow, some weekly build! Really good story and action even for 1x1 rounds! Loved the holotable. Very impressive. Quote
VK-318 Posted April 18, 2016 Posted April 18, 2016 I like the holo-table, and the war-room in general. It has a nice feel to it. Quote
EpsilonEta Posted April 18, 2016 Author Posted April 18, 2016 Thank you all! Wow, some weekly build! Really good story and action even for 1x1 rounds! Loved the holotable. Very impressive. Thank you! It's good to know that the story was exiting even when illustrated in such a simple way. I just regret that I didn't add 3 more orange ones (that would stay with the main fleet). It would correspond better with the text. Quote
SpacerSteve Posted April 18, 2016 Posted April 18, 2016 (edited) I really like your story, lighting, and the table. I also approve of how you portrayed the mantis captain. We really can hack kawashita cpu's faster than they can log on though. :D Edited April 18, 2016 by SpacerSteve Quote
David FNJ Posted April 18, 2016 Posted April 18, 2016 Ooh, sweet lighting effects and story! Great setup! Quote
rodiziorobs Posted April 19, 2016 Posted April 19, 2016 Great build and fun story! (MANTIS will be sending you a bill for services rendered) Quote
EpsilonEta Posted April 20, 2016 Author Posted April 20, 2016 (edited) Thanks again for the comments. We really can hack kawashita cpu's faster than they can log on though. :D So I have noticed in several MANTIS builds lately. You hack a computer as causally as most people order pizza (and in less time) I just wanted to state that in "my universe" it take a little longer (but you have to get those spy tags ) Great build and fun story! (MANTIS will be sending you a bill for services rendered) At this point I think Raven would be willing to pay (a reasonable amount) for the help Edited April 20, 2016 by EpsilonEta Quote
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