Post by EmperorMyric on Mar 22, 2021 15:39:03 GMT
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Voicon System: Davian Space
It wasn’t noticeable at first. Several blips on sensors that appeared at the edge of the system with no noticeable trace. The vessels that had come out of FTL immediately engaging cloaking systems, their passive sensors taking in the system of Voicon and its layout. The Silquami were the outriders, picking targets and storing the information in their systems, it only took a few moments before the information was gathered and they were subsequently detected by long range patrols. By then the signal was sent however, alongside a prerecording message by the Vaanitas, asking those who were not Davian to leave the system and that AURA had no qualms with any of the others only Davia, reinforcing the evidence against Davia they called for retribution.
And Space-time tore itself open on a scale unseen yet in the western reaches of the galaxy.
It was the culmination of a long saga. One of many nations who now found themselves on opposing sides. But most importantly it was a tale of grand mistakes, and an attempt to correct them by force from others.
After a brief period of staging in Vaanitas space the combined forces of AURA, a new power bloc in the galactic west had sent their fleets to the Davian trading system of Voicon. Over two and a half thousand vessels of various classes punched their way through into reality, accompanied by the huge forms of six super weapon class warships. The slab sided Cricaen fleet mingled with the angled and clean form of the Vaanitas while the Crystalline constructs of the AO drifted by the curved and smooth forms of the various Silquami species. It was a grand fleet, and it was here for one simple reason, to destroy the Davians and to secure information on other Davian systems, in AURAs eyes Davia was simply a threat to the galaxy and this had been demonstrated many times publically.
As the fleet translated in from FTL the Voicon star system did not sit idle. With the stealth ships having been picked up interdiction was immediately raised in critical places around the main planets and inner system. Voicon was the only well-known and located Davian system for much of the galaxy’s knowledge and it had been defended according to such. Defence platforms, starbases, monitor vessels, asteroid bases and defence fleets were stationed here in large numbers. But, they will still outnumbered. Various other fleets also lay in system, friends of Davia such as the IRS and Inquisition who either honoured defensive pacts or saw AURA as the destabilising force in the region. Either way Voicon would not go quietly even in the face of such overwhelming firepower arrayed against it. And overwhelming it was, the instant the AURA fleet fully translated in system a wave of FTL missiles were launched at the Davian vessels in the areas without interdiction, known bases were destroyed and ships crippled or outright destroyed by the barrage the first shots had been fired.
With forces of the Davians, Inquisition and IRS (who’s forces had not announced the fact they were IRS, and were operating under false flag pretences) now forming up to combat the sudden appearance of the AURA forces and dealing with the opening losses, the AO super weapon of Singularity Prime charged and fired its main gun, destroying the closest planet to the AURA fleet, as a sign of power and the precursor to a communication which played across the system. It was a reaffirmed ceasefire request for anyone who was not Davian now that AURA had fully seen non Davian forces present, asking them not to fight AURA and that AURA only had qualms with the Davians as a whole. The message also stated however that the destroyed planet was a sign of Davian retribution having finally come.
With the opening super weapon shot fired the battle began shortly after. With AURA advanced forces and picket lines battling defensive platforms and attack craft swarms the first losses began to mount for both sides as the main force moved closer in system. Vessels were sniped from the AURA fleet by massive missile attacks, or attack craft hit and run strikes or even just the brute force fire of a starbase. But one by one the defences of the Voicon outer regions were simply swept aside aiming to be an attrition factor, and for all the losses they had inflicted it was comparatively little but enough to be noticeable. With the mere several hundred vessels of the Davians, Inquisition and IRS in system protecting Voicon it would be a slaughter, but aid was already on the way.
Relief fleets from other Davian systems appeared in system, along with several other trader fleets of the Rissalas Dominion. While still heavily outnumbered the new forces allowed the defenders to now gain some punch. With the AURA forces now moving around and over the outer asteroid belt, being harried by long range fire and attack craft all the way the defenders had gained time, and reconstituted their forces into designated fleets. This barrier of the fields though proved to be somewhat punishing for AURA, with the tightly packed formation aiding defence the asteroid munitions of the belt were perfectly adapted. Little more than asteroids with engines with some designed to explode into shrapnel many were launched into the densely packed AURA fleet. Some missed entirely, others were intercepted and some scored hits enough to totally knock out ships or caused breaks in the formation, along with the other hit and run tactics the losses had begun to mount. This was a battle of attrition and the defenders were starting to make AURA bleed.
The defenders however now made their first strike, hitting the Vaanitas in a highly accelerated angle hit and run strike before moving into a fighting withdrawal. The fire exchanged was great, with the AURA fleet concentrated enough to defend against any Davian fleet attack the Vaanitas had time however to prepare for the strike. Both sides suffered damage as the 1500 ships of the defenders clashed with the Vaanitas force of 450 vessels and additional forces from the other AURA fleets. The defenders had gained a temporary number advantage in this strike as they struck a very specific fleet segment, but it was offset by the defensive nature of some of the AURA super weapons. Still the Vaanitas suffered heavy losses, with the Imperious, their own planet killer taking damage from the sudden exchange of fire. The defenders however also took losses, with the Davian and IRS fleets taking the most casualties and forcing them to abandon their plan of a second strike as the AURA fleets now tightened their formation to stop such a ploy from working again. While they had inflicted sufficient losses the Imperious was still functional, albeit scarred from the encounter.
This was where the second part of the plan came into effect from the defenders. The Tet Fortress Moon, sat in a located between systems in the blackness of space and surrounded by Davian fleets now fired up its portal system. Using location collaboration from the defender fleets the Davians placed one gate inside of the Suns upper corona and then the other on the edge of the AURA interdiction, aimed at the tight formation of their fleet. With the Nuclean fleet and additional Dominion forces translating in system for extra firepower the ionized plasma from the systems star now poured out towards the AURA fleet, its angry raging fire seeking to consume all who attacked Voicon.
The strike was both a total success and a total failure. The AURA fleet rather than breaking up to avoid the strike held formation, raising all available power to their group shield and defensive orientated super weapons to try tank and deflect the super-heated roiling plasma now bearing down upon them. The defenders looked on in hope as the plasma impacted the AURA fleet, the shields held but only for a while, the group shield quickly collapsing as resultant capacitor and run away feedback damage run rampant through the fleets present. Ships were lost as they were either vaporised or detonated from the resulting feedback damage to systems but the worst damage came to the Akk’Aman one of the Silquami super weapons, the resulting shield collapse and capacitor damage was enough to entirely cripple the large ship. While not destroyed it was effectively out of the fight. The strike tactically had been a success.
However. The Davians had not predicted the deflected plasma stream, and as they received sensor data indicating the damage they had caused to the AURA fleet they also now watched helplessly as some of the redirected plasma stream now hurtled through the void towards the ocean world closest to the AURA forces. The plasma hit the atmosphere of the world and aurorae danced as the magnetic field of the planet kept the very start of it back, but there was simply too much. The atmosphere vaporised as the plasma swept across the planets nearest facing, boiling the oceans and killing millions along with wiping out the defensive stations orbiting the world. It had been an unforeseen error, one increased by the AURA fleet shields, and one that now cost lives.
With the Inner sphere fleets of the Davians, Rissalas, Inqusition, IRS and Nucleans now fighting the renewed AURA offensive as they prepared ground forces to invade Voicon itself the battle still favoured the attackers, through sheer numbers alone. Despite the attrition tactics and strike of the Tet Moon which had inflicted heavy losses the defenders now lost ground and ships as they continued to conduct hit and run attacks, by the time AURA and the main defensive fleets were close to Voicon itself the sudden FTL wake at the edge of the system took the various forces present by surprise.
The legends of the A’Zores was one that nearly all factions knew of, and many especially the AGA defenders had either seen or heard of it through the Union. Even those in AURA had heard of the vessels exploits and as the ancient vessel now sped in system Par’Lan himself sent a system wide broadcast. It told those that this system contained a cache of ancient technology, dangerous weapons that could threaten the entire galaxy if used incorrectly and how the races of the current time could not be trusted with them whether they had survived the aeons or not. Par’Lan decreed that the various factions would leave the system of Voicon while he ensured that the weapons were destroyed, he then offered the Davians a choice leave their worlds in short order here or simply die. With no civilians in system Par’Lan was less forgiving in his stance, since the events of Kaikoma and the state of the galaxy he was worried about the fracturing of the lesser species and the chances that would take away from the future conflict. Still his statement stood.
AURA agreed to withdraw, seeing it as an opportunity to regroup, re-arm and repair. Taking with them several Davian wrecks to discern whatever they could aiding to the fact they had triangulated over the course of the battle the likely location of other Davian worlds in reach, if Voicon was going to be destroyed by another then so be it although it aggravated some of the factions who wished to acquire slaves they knew to stay was to die. Still those of the so called AGA had fought well, perhaps with yet another Davian blunder they could be convinced to sign a ceasefire between themselves and AURA. On the other side of the coin the AGA defenders now had the chance to withdraw, they had taken heavy losses and had now defended a faction that had made a huge accidental blunder costing many lives, with the A’Zores now set to cleanse Voicon there were murmurings of ceasefire talks, perhaps it was best if the Davians fended for themselves.
As for the Davians themselves they withdrew, ships and bases were evacuated and left the system quickly taking what AURA wrecks they could with them, those who could not evacuate were left to die. An action done to protect the greater Divine Empire or so the officials said. With the various forces now pulling out of the system, collecting their dead or in a position to FTL out Par’Lan commenced his mission. Which world in the system held the cache he was unsure, or if they had even survived the test of time only that with such fractured unity between the current races that if even one got their hands on such a weapon it would cause untold chaos. Stars themselves would be extinguished and whole worlds converted into mere automated battle fleets. The A’Zores targeted all six of its QAC cannons at the Voicon systems sun, uttering a small condemnation and honorary verse for the systems sun, Par’Lan gave the sign to fire. With the six kugelblitz weapons fired the star quickly detonated with the force of a super nova, the A’Zores withdrawing a second after as the cleansing brilliance wiped the system clean, worlds were simply vaporised and anyone on them killed instantly as the bright flare of the systems death glowed across the galaxy.
What came next was totally up to the lesser races, for as Par’Lan loitered to survey the scene the factions that had been present now quickly acted upon the sudden conclusion of the battle.
Voicon System: Davian Space
It wasn’t noticeable at first. Several blips on sensors that appeared at the edge of the system with no noticeable trace. The vessels that had come out of FTL immediately engaging cloaking systems, their passive sensors taking in the system of Voicon and its layout. The Silquami were the outriders, picking targets and storing the information in their systems, it only took a few moments before the information was gathered and they were subsequently detected by long range patrols. By then the signal was sent however, alongside a prerecording message by the Vaanitas, asking those who were not Davian to leave the system and that AURA had no qualms with any of the others only Davia, reinforcing the evidence against Davia they called for retribution.
And Space-time tore itself open on a scale unseen yet in the western reaches of the galaxy.
It was the culmination of a long saga. One of many nations who now found themselves on opposing sides. But most importantly it was a tale of grand mistakes, and an attempt to correct them by force from others.
After a brief period of staging in Vaanitas space the combined forces of AURA, a new power bloc in the galactic west had sent their fleets to the Davian trading system of Voicon. Over two and a half thousand vessels of various classes punched their way through into reality, accompanied by the huge forms of six super weapon class warships. The slab sided Cricaen fleet mingled with the angled and clean form of the Vaanitas while the Crystalline constructs of the AO drifted by the curved and smooth forms of the various Silquami species. It was a grand fleet, and it was here for one simple reason, to destroy the Davians and to secure information on other Davian systems, in AURAs eyes Davia was simply a threat to the galaxy and this had been demonstrated many times publically.
As the fleet translated in from FTL the Voicon star system did not sit idle. With the stealth ships having been picked up interdiction was immediately raised in critical places around the main planets and inner system. Voicon was the only well-known and located Davian system for much of the galaxy’s knowledge and it had been defended according to such. Defence platforms, starbases, monitor vessels, asteroid bases and defence fleets were stationed here in large numbers. But, they will still outnumbered. Various other fleets also lay in system, friends of Davia such as the IRS and Inquisition who either honoured defensive pacts or saw AURA as the destabilising force in the region. Either way Voicon would not go quietly even in the face of such overwhelming firepower arrayed against it. And overwhelming it was, the instant the AURA fleet fully translated in system a wave of FTL missiles were launched at the Davian vessels in the areas without interdiction, known bases were destroyed and ships crippled or outright destroyed by the barrage the first shots had been fired.
With forces of the Davians, Inquisition and IRS (who’s forces had not announced the fact they were IRS, and were operating under false flag pretences) now forming up to combat the sudden appearance of the AURA forces and dealing with the opening losses, the AO super weapon of Singularity Prime charged and fired its main gun, destroying the closest planet to the AURA fleet, as a sign of power and the precursor to a communication which played across the system. It was a reaffirmed ceasefire request for anyone who was not Davian now that AURA had fully seen non Davian forces present, asking them not to fight AURA and that AURA only had qualms with the Davians as a whole. The message also stated however that the destroyed planet was a sign of Davian retribution having finally come.
With the opening super weapon shot fired the battle began shortly after. With AURA advanced forces and picket lines battling defensive platforms and attack craft swarms the first losses began to mount for both sides as the main force moved closer in system. Vessels were sniped from the AURA fleet by massive missile attacks, or attack craft hit and run strikes or even just the brute force fire of a starbase. But one by one the defences of the Voicon outer regions were simply swept aside aiming to be an attrition factor, and for all the losses they had inflicted it was comparatively little but enough to be noticeable. With the mere several hundred vessels of the Davians, Inquisition and IRS in system protecting Voicon it would be a slaughter, but aid was already on the way.
Relief fleets from other Davian systems appeared in system, along with several other trader fleets of the Rissalas Dominion. While still heavily outnumbered the new forces allowed the defenders to now gain some punch. With the AURA forces now moving around and over the outer asteroid belt, being harried by long range fire and attack craft all the way the defenders had gained time, and reconstituted their forces into designated fleets. This barrier of the fields though proved to be somewhat punishing for AURA, with the tightly packed formation aiding defence the asteroid munitions of the belt were perfectly adapted. Little more than asteroids with engines with some designed to explode into shrapnel many were launched into the densely packed AURA fleet. Some missed entirely, others were intercepted and some scored hits enough to totally knock out ships or caused breaks in the formation, along with the other hit and run tactics the losses had begun to mount. This was a battle of attrition and the defenders were starting to make AURA bleed.
The defenders however now made their first strike, hitting the Vaanitas in a highly accelerated angle hit and run strike before moving into a fighting withdrawal. The fire exchanged was great, with the AURA fleet concentrated enough to defend against any Davian fleet attack the Vaanitas had time however to prepare for the strike. Both sides suffered damage as the 1500 ships of the defenders clashed with the Vaanitas force of 450 vessels and additional forces from the other AURA fleets. The defenders had gained a temporary number advantage in this strike as they struck a very specific fleet segment, but it was offset by the defensive nature of some of the AURA super weapons. Still the Vaanitas suffered heavy losses, with the Imperious, their own planet killer taking damage from the sudden exchange of fire. The defenders however also took losses, with the Davian and IRS fleets taking the most casualties and forcing them to abandon their plan of a second strike as the AURA fleets now tightened their formation to stop such a ploy from working again. While they had inflicted sufficient losses the Imperious was still functional, albeit scarred from the encounter.
This was where the second part of the plan came into effect from the defenders. The Tet Fortress Moon, sat in a located between systems in the blackness of space and surrounded by Davian fleets now fired up its portal system. Using location collaboration from the defender fleets the Davians placed one gate inside of the Suns upper corona and then the other on the edge of the AURA interdiction, aimed at the tight formation of their fleet. With the Nuclean fleet and additional Dominion forces translating in system for extra firepower the ionized plasma from the systems star now poured out towards the AURA fleet, its angry raging fire seeking to consume all who attacked Voicon.
The strike was both a total success and a total failure. The AURA fleet rather than breaking up to avoid the strike held formation, raising all available power to their group shield and defensive orientated super weapons to try tank and deflect the super-heated roiling plasma now bearing down upon them. The defenders looked on in hope as the plasma impacted the AURA fleet, the shields held but only for a while, the group shield quickly collapsing as resultant capacitor and run away feedback damage run rampant through the fleets present. Ships were lost as they were either vaporised or detonated from the resulting feedback damage to systems but the worst damage came to the Akk’Aman one of the Silquami super weapons, the resulting shield collapse and capacitor damage was enough to entirely cripple the large ship. While not destroyed it was effectively out of the fight. The strike tactically had been a success.
However. The Davians had not predicted the deflected plasma stream, and as they received sensor data indicating the damage they had caused to the AURA fleet they also now watched helplessly as some of the redirected plasma stream now hurtled through the void towards the ocean world closest to the AURA forces. The plasma hit the atmosphere of the world and aurorae danced as the magnetic field of the planet kept the very start of it back, but there was simply too much. The atmosphere vaporised as the plasma swept across the planets nearest facing, boiling the oceans and killing millions along with wiping out the defensive stations orbiting the world. It had been an unforeseen error, one increased by the AURA fleet shields, and one that now cost lives.
With the Inner sphere fleets of the Davians, Rissalas, Inqusition, IRS and Nucleans now fighting the renewed AURA offensive as they prepared ground forces to invade Voicon itself the battle still favoured the attackers, through sheer numbers alone. Despite the attrition tactics and strike of the Tet Moon which had inflicted heavy losses the defenders now lost ground and ships as they continued to conduct hit and run attacks, by the time AURA and the main defensive fleets were close to Voicon itself the sudden FTL wake at the edge of the system took the various forces present by surprise.
The legends of the A’Zores was one that nearly all factions knew of, and many especially the AGA defenders had either seen or heard of it through the Union. Even those in AURA had heard of the vessels exploits and as the ancient vessel now sped in system Par’Lan himself sent a system wide broadcast. It told those that this system contained a cache of ancient technology, dangerous weapons that could threaten the entire galaxy if used incorrectly and how the races of the current time could not be trusted with them whether they had survived the aeons or not. Par’Lan decreed that the various factions would leave the system of Voicon while he ensured that the weapons were destroyed, he then offered the Davians a choice leave their worlds in short order here or simply die. With no civilians in system Par’Lan was less forgiving in his stance, since the events of Kaikoma and the state of the galaxy he was worried about the fracturing of the lesser species and the chances that would take away from the future conflict. Still his statement stood.
AURA agreed to withdraw, seeing it as an opportunity to regroup, re-arm and repair. Taking with them several Davian wrecks to discern whatever they could aiding to the fact they had triangulated over the course of the battle the likely location of other Davian worlds in reach, if Voicon was going to be destroyed by another then so be it although it aggravated some of the factions who wished to acquire slaves they knew to stay was to die. Still those of the so called AGA had fought well, perhaps with yet another Davian blunder they could be convinced to sign a ceasefire between themselves and AURA. On the other side of the coin the AGA defenders now had the chance to withdraw, they had taken heavy losses and had now defended a faction that had made a huge accidental blunder costing many lives, with the A’Zores now set to cleanse Voicon there were murmurings of ceasefire talks, perhaps it was best if the Davians fended for themselves.
As for the Davians themselves they withdrew, ships and bases were evacuated and left the system quickly taking what AURA wrecks they could with them, those who could not evacuate were left to die. An action done to protect the greater Divine Empire or so the officials said. With the various forces now pulling out of the system, collecting their dead or in a position to FTL out Par’Lan commenced his mission. Which world in the system held the cache he was unsure, or if they had even survived the test of time only that with such fractured unity between the current races that if even one got their hands on such a weapon it would cause untold chaos. Stars themselves would be extinguished and whole worlds converted into mere automated battle fleets. The A’Zores targeted all six of its QAC cannons at the Voicon systems sun, uttering a small condemnation and honorary verse for the systems sun, Par’Lan gave the sign to fire. With the six kugelblitz weapons fired the star quickly detonated with the force of a super nova, the A’Zores withdrawing a second after as the cleansing brilliance wiped the system clean, worlds were simply vaporised and anyone on them killed instantly as the bright flare of the systems death glowed across the galaxy.
What came next was totally up to the lesser races, for as Par’Lan loitered to survey the scene the factions that had been present now quickly acted upon the sudden conclusion of the battle.