silently in the depths of gageran space, two massive fleets come out of hyperspace on oppostide sides of the sector and immediatly go into stealth on direct courses to the center of the sector...
sir this is gageran space command of the main gagaen refit facilities, we report that 70% of the fleet has been refitted with the new AA guns, we have located two problems with them tho sir
*admiral Khaak Hammer* what is it?
sir it seems that while these things can destroy large amounts of missles very quickly, they have a great difficulty tracking and computing which missles to kill first, and given the amount of missles the SKOM has demonstrated it can launch our computers will need a major refit to keep up with the amount of processing power required,
*admiral Khaak Hammer* and the other problem?
well sir this seems to be the biggest problem, withe sheer amount of ammuntion this thing burns through every second, we dont have the capacity to carry more than 5 minutes worth of ammunition for each ship
*admiral Khaak Hammer* da*n is there any way to fix this?
no sir, the best we can do at the moment is begin working on new computer software that will fire it in smaller bursts instead of a continuous stream, estimated time before we finish this tho is at least a week
*admiral Khaak Hammer* understood
*gageran scout* SIR UNKNOWN SHIPS DETECTED IN THE SOUTH QUADRANT
*admiral Khaak Hammer* launch the fleet we cannot have them open fire on the new facilities, if they destroy both our ships and the refit facility we will lose all our current work on the new AA guns.
*khaak hammers fleet heads toward the unknown vessels*
sir preliminary analyisi shows them to be PNS warships sir
*admiral Khaak Hammer* what are they doing here, we have no quarral with them
*gageran scout* SECOND UNKNOWN FLEET CLOSING FAST BEHIND US
tracking reports they are SKOM warships, were trapped between them
*admiral Khaak Hammer* sheilds to max, send warning messages, and order them to leave the system
-meanwhile- on board the manticoran SD(P) Ellesmera
*Admiral Kurt* star launching pods, the second were in range of the PNS ships, open fire
what about the gageran ships in between
*Admiral Kurt* in afraid there in the way and we cannot order them out of the way wihtout giving away our postion to the PNS, im sure theve detected us tho
sir were in range, launching now
*700 manticoran SD(P)'s open fire, launching wave after wave of missles towards the PNS fleet, who promptly returns fire, a massive avalance of fire heads towards the other and misslde defence crews prepare to deal with the threat*
*back at the gageran fleet*
ESTIMATED AMOUNT OF MISSLES AT 3 MILLION AND RISING, AA guns ar engaging the missles that have lost tracking and are reaquiring us?
*Admiral khaak hammer* nad how many would that be,
about 700000 sir, it seems that about 25% of the missles from both fleets lost track at the ranges their firing from sir, were burning thru our ammo to fast sir, were runnig out and weve only gotten about 500000 missles
*space blazes, missles are torn apart, as flak cannons, AA guns, counter missles, fighters and laser clusters blow more and more missles to shreds, but its not enough, it rarely is and wave after wave of missles detonates among the fleets, bright falshes are seen as fusion cores collapse and ships vanish with increasing rapidity
the SKOM gets off easy, few ships are destroyed, the gageran AA guns had concentrated mostly on the PNS missles since they were closer and had left the rest as easy isolated targets that were picked off,
the PNS fleet is in ruins, it had been outnumbered and most of its ships are destroyed, the remnants jump out, closely followed byt the SKOM in pursuit to finish them off
-meanwhile on the gageran flagship-
sir the ship is wrecked... massive structural damage everywhere, teams are being sent to get everyone off
*Admiral khaak hammer* *cough* and the fleet?
sir about 78% was destroyed *cough*, once we ran out of ammo we were sitting ducks waiting to be slaughtered
*Admiral khaak hammer* no... so much destruction, so much carnage, so much death...
**--- let this set a new standard for us now
, kinda long but i had a lot of fun thinking it up---**
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