- RP Date
- YE 46.4
- RP Location
- Grakkaflarl Kla Venushhurl
YE 46.4
Morning
After the bustle of the International Relations Conference and the fun of the Hanami Festival, the crew of the mighty YSS Resurgence returned to duty, and the ship was ready to head out again in YE 46.4 for some sort of major operation. As the gunship slowly hovered out of the hangar, it seemed like every nearby ship was also heading out to space at the same time.
After breakfast, Captain Aoba had everyone meet in the Recreation Room for a briefing.
"Good morning everyone," Aoba said, facing the gathered crew. "I hope everyone enjoyed their time on planet Yamatai. Now is the time to get back into battle mode. The Resurgence will be joining the greater First Fleet and other Star Army forces shortly for one of the largest operations we have done in while. In the last year, the YSS Kaiyō II has been cooperating with the Star Army of Uesureya to assist their efforts in the Uesu Sector in fighting our shared enemy, the NMX."
"As you know," Aoba continued, "we recently discovered a network of wormholes used by the NMX to travel the Kagami Galaxy to places such as the Concordia Sector and beyond. One of these wormholes actually connects the Uesu Sector and the Kikyo Sector, and would make travel between the two take days instead of months. It is called Grakkaflarl Kla Venushhurl, named after the nearby Venushhurl star system in the Uesu Sector. This highly strategic wormhole has been controlled by a large fleet of NMX ships and a powerful star fortress. The Star Army of Yamatai sent the Kaiyō II to disable the station, giving us an opportunity to attack and seize control of Grakkaflarl. Now the time has come to strike. We'll bring the ship's weapons to bear in battle while all of our power armor forces fend off the Mishhuvurthyar battle pods and boarding parties. Questions?"
Sanda took a sip from her coffee cup as she processed the Captain's briefing. Big fleet operations, not Sanda's favorite type of fight. Too many moving parts to keep track of.
Cassie raised her hand, "You said the NMX star fortress is in the Venushhurl system, are there planets in the Venushhurl system that need invading after the fleet battle?"
"Yes, but I think that's probably a job for the Rikugun or Uesu's forces," Aoba answered Cassie.
This bothered Yoshiro a lot, if it meant what he thought it did. "when do we get a chance to mash these bugs and teach them a lesson about messing with Yamatai. I don't like sitting around while they use this tech to attack us and our allies." Yoshiro said with a bit of a growl.
"In approximately three hours, we'll enter the wormhole," Aoba said, "We'll come out blasting. It will be a target-rich environment."
"Good." Yoshiro said and grinned. "The Mishhu really need to stop messing with us and our people. The only thing I need to know is what our ship's goal is and how many enemies are out there trying to kill us." Yoshiro's trigger finger was getting itchy and he wanted to pay them back for taking his hand.
Yayoi silently munched on a treat of some kind, as she listened to the briefing. At the mention of the starship, YSS Kaiyō II, she remembered her sister Kiyo used to serve on board the ship. She refocused on the briefing agian, but she couldnt help momentarily think of Kiyo and wondered if she was still serving on a ship. She knew they could use her help as much as Yayoi's own.
"What kind of numbers are we looking at? Not only our enemies but the First Fleet's strength as well. Are we looking at another Glimmergold sized fight?" Sanda asked.
"To put it in the most simplified of terms," Aoba told Sanda, "The First Fleet has 5,343 starships, the Mishhuvurthyar Fleet has about 4,000, and we will be joined by some elements of other fleets and by a fleet from the Star Army of Uesureya so we have a numerical advantage. If we faced them with even numbers the NMX would simply send more ships to unbalance the fight so Taisho Yui wants this to be decisive. The first objective is to permanently take and hold the wormhole for Yamatai, and the secondary objective is to destroy as many NMX ships as possible. As for our role, that means trying to rack up the most kills and survive what is probably going to be a nasty fight."
"Oh this is going to be fun." Yoshiro said with a glee that was usually reserved for serial killers and psychopaths. "Time for the Mishhu to taste the fucking rainbow!"
Sanda smiled as Aoba used 'simplified terms'. She was a simple soldier after all. But as she heard the numbers she let out a soft whistle. "Sí, gran pelea."
Yayoi actually smiled a little as she listened to her captain. She silently nodded her head, understanding of her orders. Then glanced over to Sanda. 'Si, Hermana" She said to her.
"We need to keep in mind that the Mishhuvurthyar have in some cases been able to turn our own ships against us," Euikoshi pointed out from the back. "Just because we have the numbers doesn't mean it will be necessarily go as planned or be easy."
From her place listening, Mineko looked over the green-haired scientist with a sharp nod and a widening smile. Euikoshi always made a point of saying what others weren't thinking and Mineko liked that about her.
"Mmm," Aoba said. "Yamatai expects every soldier to do their fullest. Good enthusiasm, Yoshiro."
With that, Julia meadows offered everyone on the crew a small dish of sake from the Ice Queen Mountains as a battle blessing.
Yoshiro smiled at Aoba. "Thank you, Captain." He takes the sake from Julia and saluted the the captain with it before drinking it.
"Dismissed! Get ready," Aoba said, freeing them to prepare for the coming carnage.
"Well I know the music so now it's time to start the dancing." Yoshiro and went to get into his armor.
Yayoi glanced towards Yoshiro as he was commended for his enthusiasm. Indeed, he was very enthusiastic, and in some cases crazy as far as she was concerned.
"Mineko? I got something for you to analyze, you mind checking it out?" Yoshiro said "if not now some other time?"
"Oh, really?" The SAINT agent said, getting up to go over to their passionate team commander. "I don't know if I'll have time before the battle. Would you help me out with it later today or tomorrow? Provided you survive," she added cheekily.
"Me not survive? Not when I can have fun ripping the guts out of the rippers and using them for jump ropes." Yoshiro said "If I make it through I can help you out with it today." He left to get ready for the mission.
Space
The combined armada's destination was off to the far southeast from Yamatai. Once gathered there some two hours later, the Star Army of Yamatai's mighty First Fleet stood arrayed in the vast inky blackness of space, prepared to undertake a massive strategic operation against the Mishhuvurthyar. There were no enemies in sight before Taisho Irim's ships, however, only an empty void that held the coordinates of a wormhole's terminus that reached across the stars and provided transit to Yamatai's sister nation called the Uesureyan Star Empire. It was a backdoor right into the Kikyo Sector that gave the Mishhu an ability to quickly connect their disparate forces while denying the twin Star Armies of Yamatai and Uesureya the same.
Far-off in that Uesureyan region, the mission was already underway. A power armor team from the YSS Kaiyō II had infiltrated a vast Mishhuvurthyar space station that enabled Yamatai's archenemy to open and close the wormhole by way of some wicked science. Intelligence indicated that the starbase was defended by nearly 4,000 Mishhu warships. But, should the Kaiyō's soldiers prove successful, the Star Army would be able to rush through the opened wormhole and take the advantage the Mishhu had wanted to use against them.
Yamatai's ships on the Kikyo Sector side had staged at the proper coordinates well in advance, the YSS Resurgence among them, and they lay there in wait for whatever signal told them they could invade. More than just the First Fleet had sent their ships, with Rikugun-laden transports from Task Force 282 ready to storm the Mishhu star fortress and secure it by strength of arms. Allies from the Nepleslian Star Navy were among the vessels there, too, including the NSS Fang and its escort contingent that carried ID-SOL marines who served on exchange with the aforementioned task force.
The tense hour spent on standby immediately ceased when the wormhole's apparition bloomed in the empty space in front of the First Fleet. Where there was once nothing filled quickly with a vast teal cloud, almost nebula-like in appearance, with the darkened circle of the wormhole's event horizon at its center.
And out from it tumbled a single Kirie Thought Armor. The mini mecha's IFF transponder lit up every ship's sensors, revealing the soldier within to be the famed Chusa Ketsurui Aiko.
"My hohei have taken command of the station, please hurry through!" Aiko said, signaling to the waiting vessels what was already obvious. After that she said no more and jetted off to land on the YSS Battle Of Yamatai's hull, from where the Ketsurui warrior would hitch a ride back to the fight that waited for them on the other side.
Among the cluster of friendly sensor pings, was a group of ships that flagged as Nepleslian. Of the five ships there were the NSS Fang, NSS Phantom, NSS Maelstrom, NSS Typhoon, and NSS Hurricane. The ships of Battegroup Havoc began to split away from the other Yamataian ships. The Fang, a Carnivore class heavy cruiser led the charge. Waiting in the wings, the Maelstrom, Typhoon, and Hurricane all of which were Longsword class frigates escorted the heart of the battlegroup. The Phantom was a Specter class stealth carrier. Already, it was dropping off the radar becoming a void in space.
The Resurgence rushed forward with the fleet, coordinating its fire with other gunships to "alpha strike" selected targets by hitting them with enough guns at once that their shields were overwhelmed. Aboard the ship everyone was at their battle stations and suited up for combat. Even the cooks were in their firefighting gear and the caretakers were on duty as standby medics. For the away team, they were in the armor bay ready to launch as the armored bay door came open.
The Mishhuvurthyar fleet's formation around the Venushhurl wormhole was spread wide around the station, and seemed to stretch out far past visual range. When the first Star Army ships emerged through the Mishhu were only just beginning to react, having been taken by complete surprise following the Kaiyō's initial strike. Some small number of Mishhu vessels even flashed away from the battle straightaway, apparently abandoning their stronghold without a fight. Unbeknownst to the Star Army attackers, these runaways were shepherding off abominable members of the Mishhuvurthyar Council who'd been caught by the Kaiyō crew's whirlwind interruption.
But what the enemy lacked in preparedness and force concentration was somewhat mitigated by the Star Army fleet's need to trickle in through the wormhole rather than appear as a unified front out of hyperspace fold.
"This is Joto Heisho Yoshiro Tanaka, callsign Poet. Heard you need assistance." Yoshiro said over comms to the teams on the star fortress "We are on the way to help." He turned to his team and smiled. "Time to show these slugs what we are made of! Head'em up and move'em out!" He suited up and got ready to lead. He had his weapons loaded and ready to go after suiting up.
Getting a call from one of the team leads coming through the wormhole was a welcome suprise to the Kaiyō's captain on the space fortress. She had just regrouped with her own team after battling on her own to avoid complete capture by the Mishhuvurthyar and her voice was out of breath but full of fervor.
"Give them your all," Captain Hoshi responded to Yoshiro and the Resurgence crew. "They know we're here now, so their starships are scrambling."
Sanda stood suited up in her Mindy in the Hangar Bay. She untied her hair for the fourth time and retied it before putting on her helmet. Rock'n Roll music was blasting out of the helmet as she placed it on her head and sealed it.
Yayoi stood in her own Mindy beside Sanda, as she mentally prepared herself for battle like she'd always had. She focused on the Mishhu, like they were Kuvexians, only worse. However, she was distracted by Hoshi's voice for a second, recognizing it from her bar, but she didnt let it distract her for long.
Chiheisen clipped her helmet onto her Mindy, the sapphire winged Elysian just finishing up with her preparations. She took her place next to Yayoi as she preformed some system checks out of habit, and also verifying that her weapons were good to go.
Sanda looked over at Chiheisen. "You good to go Nightingale?" The Ranger had been impressed with their resident bird the last few missions. She had proven to be dependable and level headed.
Chiheisen glanced towards the Mindy clad Nepleslian as she flicked her LATR's safety off with a satisfying little click. "Hai, Thunder" Whether she gave Sanda a small smirk or not was completely shielded by her helmet.
"Let's go get'em Resurgence!" He said as he jumped out of the hangar bay. "Time to have some fun! Let's go hunting for bugs! WOOOHOOO!"
"Berserker Actual to Fang Tac-ops" Came the voice of Nepleslian Marine Captain William Sanders. "Fang Tac-ops, reading you 4-5. Send your traffic." Came the terse reply of the Nepleslian ship's tactical officer. "Tac-ops, I am uploading my senor data. Hope it helps." "Copy that Berserker Actual, keep your head down. Fang Tac-ops, out." The data was displayed on the Fang's CIC holo display. "Captain Adler, we have Berserker's tactical data. Updating the plot." The map updated to display the multitude of NMX ships speeding their way. "Understood, send the data to the rest of the battlegroup." Came the reply of the Fang's CO. Captain Adler was a short woman, with crimson hair and hard hazel eyes. "CAG, deploy the 555th."
As the Fang burned through space, launch tubes began opening on the port and starboard sides of the ship. Soon a flight of 20 Na-F/A-6(b) "Sabres" launched out into space. The fighters quickly fanned out, heading straight into the path of the oncoming battlepods.
The NMX ships were still trying to figure out what to do for a moment but then they started to return fire and dump thousands and thousands of battle pods, drones, and torpedoes, flooding the Star Army's targeting displays with red dots as the enemies missiles and small craft raced towards them in anger. The Resurgence rolled and zigzagged evasively around the burning wreckage of an NMX Escort it had just destroyed. As the cloud of death launched by the NMX fleet closed in, the Resurgence's quad AA gun turrets came to life, prioritizing the enemy torpedoes as they unleashed a flurry of sun-yellow beams.
"Time to get some! Callsign Poet engaging the enemy." Yoshiro said as he dodged enemy fire and launched missiles of his own.
Yayoi moved forward and began her attack, sending missiles like Yoshiro was, to keep enemy pods off of the ship. She also aimed with the Aetheric Pulse Cannon and fired as well on the pods.
"I hate this," Cassie said, "This is too much like the fall of Ketsurui Military Sector," she shuddered, shooting at one of the approaching pods. She hit it in the big orange sensor eye and it spun out of control. "That was the worst day of my life," she said, recalling how her entire unit was killed and she was left stranded in space thinking she would run out of air and die.
"I lost my father to these bastards, never again will I lose friends or loved ones to these bugs!" Yoshiro said and kept firing his weapons and missiles at targets. "It won't be the fall of any more people that we love Cassie, fight and kill them all and we will be better for the enemy's destruction." He had his mother and siblings to protect too, he thought to himself. He would honor his family with his victory.
Chiheisen was keeping close to the resurgence for the time being, using her rather long ranged rifle to begin to pick off incoming battle pods and whatever else dared to approach the Fuji-Class. Her eyes darted about her holographic HUD, this being likely her largest space battle to date.
Sanda was also sticking close to the Resurgence at the moment. The time that the ship was boarded by that advanced type Mishhu and the Captain killed was still fresh in her mind so she wanted to be able to get into the ship fast if something managed to get through their sheilds again.
The tattooed Ranger was maglocked to the Resurgence outer hull and had two shoulder mounted 50 cal gauss cannons blasting away.
Ahead they could see hundreds of starships, all firing their weapons. It was weirdly beautiful in a way but also they knew that all of the burning ships were full of people...below their feet the Resurgence shifted and shuddered as it was struck by enemy fire, which seemed to have a special attention for the Resurgence because of its reputation.
Suddenly, out of the darkness came a large Mishhuvurthyar mecha that landed on the Resurgence's hull as soon as the shields had flickered for a moment. It began shooting the ship's rollbar, damaging the ship's torpedo launchers, then began to try to disable the ship's turrets, which had a hard time hitting something on the hull.
Yayoi stood at Sandas back, firing her Aetheric Pulse Cannons, and Shoulder-Mounted Scalar Machine Guns at her enemies that dared approach. "We need something bigger, say didn't Trowa get a mech?' she asked Sanda as she fired.her eyes widening at the Mishhuvurthyar mecha that dared dirty the hull. She turned her focus on the Mecha.
"Enemy contact, large enemy mech on the hull of the Resurgence!" Yoshiro said and opened fire at the mech. "Come at me you sluggy looking slimy bastard! This line and no further! You have taken a part of me already, you will not take more!!! YAHHHHH!!!" He fired at the Mishhu mech, taking the time to reload his GP12 when it needed fresh ammo.
Sanda ran across the hull to the opposite side of the ship. She couldn't miss the enemy Mech standing there blasting away at the ship. She locked her suit into place and began to shoot everything she had at the Mech, wishing see had something bigger. There was a flash on her HUD as something big was approching. She turned in time to see another Mech come flying towards the one of the Res.
Shosa Trowa Yamamoto flew his Mech at the Mishhu one and slashed at it with his sword. The one eyed Nepleslian had aquired the prototype mech in a last chance salvage and this was the first time he had had a chance to use it in a real fight against an enemy mech.
Chiehisen spotted a group of pods heading right for the ship. The middle had a torpedo on it, which it was lining up, and the others had racks of mini-missiles, which they began to spray in excess, trying to hit the ship's defenders.
"Seems like the kitties need a hand." Came a feminine voice over their comms. "Valkyrie flight at your service. Point us at a target." With this, a flight of five Nepleslian fighter passed over the Resurgence, firing missiles into the incoming battlepods.
Chiheisen gritted her teeth as she turned away from the mech, and facing towards the incoming assault. "Incoming, Ive got it, focus on that mech!" She grunted into comms as she lined up her rifle and took a shot, aimed straight at the lead battle pod, specifically attempting to hit the torpedo. She deployed her NSB's opting to use them to fire at the rest of the battle pods. The Elysian was hoping the formation was close enough together that the torpedo's detonation could affect the others, if not take them out entirely.
"Valkyrie flight, Callsign Poet requesting attack on large enemy mech on the Resurgence, on the hull near the torpedo launchers." Yoshiro said to the Flight and then switched the comms to Sanda. "Sanda, get out of there! Strike on the Mishuu Mecha incoming!"
"Valkyrie 1, copy that. Targeting the big ugly on your hull. Keep your heads down." The five fighters broke off, and lined up an attack run. "Stick to guns people. Don't want to scratch the hull." The four remaining members of Valkyrie flight sent their acknowledgement, and sent a burst of cannon rounds into the mech.
Morning
After the bustle of the International Relations Conference and the fun of the Hanami Festival, the crew of the mighty YSS Resurgence returned to duty, and the ship was ready to head out again in YE 46.4 for some sort of major operation. As the gunship slowly hovered out of the hangar, it seemed like every nearby ship was also heading out to space at the same time.
After breakfast, Captain Aoba had everyone meet in the Recreation Room for a briefing.
"Good morning everyone," Aoba said, facing the gathered crew. "I hope everyone enjoyed their time on planet Yamatai. Now is the time to get back into battle mode. The Resurgence will be joining the greater First Fleet and other Star Army forces shortly for one of the largest operations we have done in while. In the last year, the YSS Kaiyō II has been cooperating with the Star Army of Uesureya to assist their efforts in the Uesu Sector in fighting our shared enemy, the NMX."
"As you know," Aoba continued, "we recently discovered a network of wormholes used by the NMX to travel the Kagami Galaxy to places such as the Concordia Sector and beyond. One of these wormholes actually connects the Uesu Sector and the Kikyo Sector, and would make travel between the two take days instead of months. It is called Grakkaflarl Kla Venushhurl, named after the nearby Venushhurl star system in the Uesu Sector. This highly strategic wormhole has been controlled by a large fleet of NMX ships and a powerful star fortress. The Star Army of Yamatai sent the Kaiyō II to disable the station, giving us an opportunity to attack and seize control of Grakkaflarl. Now the time has come to strike. We'll bring the ship's weapons to bear in battle while all of our power armor forces fend off the Mishhuvurthyar battle pods and boarding parties. Questions?"
Sanda took a sip from her coffee cup as she processed the Captain's briefing. Big fleet operations, not Sanda's favorite type of fight. Too many moving parts to keep track of.
Cassie raised her hand, "You said the NMX star fortress is in the Venushhurl system, are there planets in the Venushhurl system that need invading after the fleet battle?"
"Yes, but I think that's probably a job for the Rikugun or Uesu's forces," Aoba answered Cassie.
This bothered Yoshiro a lot, if it meant what he thought it did. "when do we get a chance to mash these bugs and teach them a lesson about messing with Yamatai. I don't like sitting around while they use this tech to attack us and our allies." Yoshiro said with a bit of a growl.
"In approximately three hours, we'll enter the wormhole," Aoba said, "We'll come out blasting. It will be a target-rich environment."
"Good." Yoshiro said and grinned. "The Mishhu really need to stop messing with us and our people. The only thing I need to know is what our ship's goal is and how many enemies are out there trying to kill us." Yoshiro's trigger finger was getting itchy and he wanted to pay them back for taking his hand.
Yayoi silently munched on a treat of some kind, as she listened to the briefing. At the mention of the starship, YSS Kaiyō II, she remembered her sister Kiyo used to serve on board the ship. She refocused on the briefing agian, but she couldnt help momentarily think of Kiyo and wondered if she was still serving on a ship. She knew they could use her help as much as Yayoi's own.
"What kind of numbers are we looking at? Not only our enemies but the First Fleet's strength as well. Are we looking at another Glimmergold sized fight?" Sanda asked.
"To put it in the most simplified of terms," Aoba told Sanda, "The First Fleet has 5,343 starships, the Mishhuvurthyar Fleet has about 4,000, and we will be joined by some elements of other fleets and by a fleet from the Star Army of Uesureya so we have a numerical advantage. If we faced them with even numbers the NMX would simply send more ships to unbalance the fight so Taisho Yui wants this to be decisive. The first objective is to permanently take and hold the wormhole for Yamatai, and the secondary objective is to destroy as many NMX ships as possible. As for our role, that means trying to rack up the most kills and survive what is probably going to be a nasty fight."
"Oh this is going to be fun." Yoshiro said with a glee that was usually reserved for serial killers and psychopaths. "Time for the Mishhu to taste the fucking rainbow!"
Sanda smiled as Aoba used 'simplified terms'. She was a simple soldier after all. But as she heard the numbers she let out a soft whistle. "Sí, gran pelea."
Yayoi actually smiled a little as she listened to her captain. She silently nodded her head, understanding of her orders. Then glanced over to Sanda. 'Si, Hermana" She said to her.
"We need to keep in mind that the Mishhuvurthyar have in some cases been able to turn our own ships against us," Euikoshi pointed out from the back. "Just because we have the numbers doesn't mean it will be necessarily go as planned or be easy."
From her place listening, Mineko looked over the green-haired scientist with a sharp nod and a widening smile. Euikoshi always made a point of saying what others weren't thinking and Mineko liked that about her.
"Mmm," Aoba said. "Yamatai expects every soldier to do their fullest. Good enthusiasm, Yoshiro."
With that, Julia meadows offered everyone on the crew a small dish of sake from the Ice Queen Mountains as a battle blessing.
Yoshiro smiled at Aoba. "Thank you, Captain." He takes the sake from Julia and saluted the the captain with it before drinking it.
"Dismissed! Get ready," Aoba said, freeing them to prepare for the coming carnage.
"Well I know the music so now it's time to start the dancing." Yoshiro and went to get into his armor.
Yayoi glanced towards Yoshiro as he was commended for his enthusiasm. Indeed, he was very enthusiastic, and in some cases crazy as far as she was concerned.
"Mineko? I got something for you to analyze, you mind checking it out?" Yoshiro said "if not now some other time?"
"Oh, really?" The SAINT agent said, getting up to go over to their passionate team commander. "I don't know if I'll have time before the battle. Would you help me out with it later today or tomorrow? Provided you survive," she added cheekily.
"Me not survive? Not when I can have fun ripping the guts out of the rippers and using them for jump ropes." Yoshiro said "If I make it through I can help you out with it today." He left to get ready for the mission.
Space
The combined armada's destination was off to the far southeast from Yamatai. Once gathered there some two hours later, the Star Army of Yamatai's mighty First Fleet stood arrayed in the vast inky blackness of space, prepared to undertake a massive strategic operation against the Mishhuvurthyar. There were no enemies in sight before Taisho Irim's ships, however, only an empty void that held the coordinates of a wormhole's terminus that reached across the stars and provided transit to Yamatai's sister nation called the Uesureyan Star Empire. It was a backdoor right into the Kikyo Sector that gave the Mishhu an ability to quickly connect their disparate forces while denying the twin Star Armies of Yamatai and Uesureya the same.
Far-off in that Uesureyan region, the mission was already underway. A power armor team from the YSS Kaiyō II had infiltrated a vast Mishhuvurthyar space station that enabled Yamatai's archenemy to open and close the wormhole by way of some wicked science. Intelligence indicated that the starbase was defended by nearly 4,000 Mishhu warships. But, should the Kaiyō's soldiers prove successful, the Star Army would be able to rush through the opened wormhole and take the advantage the Mishhu had wanted to use against them.
Yamatai's ships on the Kikyo Sector side had staged at the proper coordinates well in advance, the YSS Resurgence among them, and they lay there in wait for whatever signal told them they could invade. More than just the First Fleet had sent their ships, with Rikugun-laden transports from Task Force 282 ready to storm the Mishhu star fortress and secure it by strength of arms. Allies from the Nepleslian Star Navy were among the vessels there, too, including the NSS Fang and its escort contingent that carried ID-SOL marines who served on exchange with the aforementioned task force.
The tense hour spent on standby immediately ceased when the wormhole's apparition bloomed in the empty space in front of the First Fleet. Where there was once nothing filled quickly with a vast teal cloud, almost nebula-like in appearance, with the darkened circle of the wormhole's event horizon at its center.
And out from it tumbled a single Kirie Thought Armor. The mini mecha's IFF transponder lit up every ship's sensors, revealing the soldier within to be the famed Chusa Ketsurui Aiko.
"My hohei have taken command of the station, please hurry through!" Aiko said, signaling to the waiting vessels what was already obvious. After that she said no more and jetted off to land on the YSS Battle Of Yamatai's hull, from where the Ketsurui warrior would hitch a ride back to the fight that waited for them on the other side.
Among the cluster of friendly sensor pings, was a group of ships that flagged as Nepleslian. Of the five ships there were the NSS Fang, NSS Phantom, NSS Maelstrom, NSS Typhoon, and NSS Hurricane. The ships of Battegroup Havoc began to split away from the other Yamataian ships. The Fang, a Carnivore class heavy cruiser led the charge. Waiting in the wings, the Maelstrom, Typhoon, and Hurricane all of which were Longsword class frigates escorted the heart of the battlegroup. The Phantom was a Specter class stealth carrier. Already, it was dropping off the radar becoming a void in space.
The Resurgence rushed forward with the fleet, coordinating its fire with other gunships to "alpha strike" selected targets by hitting them with enough guns at once that their shields were overwhelmed. Aboard the ship everyone was at their battle stations and suited up for combat. Even the cooks were in their firefighting gear and the caretakers were on duty as standby medics. For the away team, they were in the armor bay ready to launch as the armored bay door came open.
The Mishhuvurthyar fleet's formation around the Venushhurl wormhole was spread wide around the station, and seemed to stretch out far past visual range. When the first Star Army ships emerged through the Mishhu were only just beginning to react, having been taken by complete surprise following the Kaiyō's initial strike. Some small number of Mishhu vessels even flashed away from the battle straightaway, apparently abandoning their stronghold without a fight. Unbeknownst to the Star Army attackers, these runaways were shepherding off abominable members of the Mishhuvurthyar Council who'd been caught by the Kaiyō crew's whirlwind interruption.
But what the enemy lacked in preparedness and force concentration was somewhat mitigated by the Star Army fleet's need to trickle in through the wormhole rather than appear as a unified front out of hyperspace fold.
"This is Joto Heisho Yoshiro Tanaka, callsign Poet. Heard you need assistance." Yoshiro said over comms to the teams on the star fortress "We are on the way to help." He turned to his team and smiled. "Time to show these slugs what we are made of! Head'em up and move'em out!" He suited up and got ready to lead. He had his weapons loaded and ready to go after suiting up.
Getting a call from one of the team leads coming through the wormhole was a welcome suprise to the Kaiyō's captain on the space fortress. She had just regrouped with her own team after battling on her own to avoid complete capture by the Mishhuvurthyar and her voice was out of breath but full of fervor.
"Give them your all," Captain Hoshi responded to Yoshiro and the Resurgence crew. "They know we're here now, so their starships are scrambling."
Sanda stood suited up in her Mindy in the Hangar Bay. She untied her hair for the fourth time and retied it before putting on her helmet. Rock'n Roll music was blasting out of the helmet as she placed it on her head and sealed it.
Yayoi stood in her own Mindy beside Sanda, as she mentally prepared herself for battle like she'd always had. She focused on the Mishhu, like they were Kuvexians, only worse. However, she was distracted by Hoshi's voice for a second, recognizing it from her bar, but she didnt let it distract her for long.
Chiheisen clipped her helmet onto her Mindy, the sapphire winged Elysian just finishing up with her preparations. She took her place next to Yayoi as she preformed some system checks out of habit, and also verifying that her weapons were good to go.
Sanda looked over at Chiheisen. "You good to go Nightingale?" The Ranger had been impressed with their resident bird the last few missions. She had proven to be dependable and level headed.
Chiheisen glanced towards the Mindy clad Nepleslian as she flicked her LATR's safety off with a satisfying little click. "Hai, Thunder" Whether she gave Sanda a small smirk or not was completely shielded by her helmet.
"Let's go get'em Resurgence!" He said as he jumped out of the hangar bay. "Time to have some fun! Let's go hunting for bugs! WOOOHOOO!"
"Berserker Actual to Fang Tac-ops" Came the voice of Nepleslian Marine Captain William Sanders. "Fang Tac-ops, reading you 4-5. Send your traffic." Came the terse reply of the Nepleslian ship's tactical officer. "Tac-ops, I am uploading my senor data. Hope it helps." "Copy that Berserker Actual, keep your head down. Fang Tac-ops, out." The data was displayed on the Fang's CIC holo display. "Captain Adler, we have Berserker's tactical data. Updating the plot." The map updated to display the multitude of NMX ships speeding their way. "Understood, send the data to the rest of the battlegroup." Came the reply of the Fang's CO. Captain Adler was a short woman, with crimson hair and hard hazel eyes. "CAG, deploy the 555th."
As the Fang burned through space, launch tubes began opening on the port and starboard sides of the ship. Soon a flight of 20 Na-F/A-6(b) "Sabres" launched out into space. The fighters quickly fanned out, heading straight into the path of the oncoming battlepods.
The NMX ships were still trying to figure out what to do for a moment but then they started to return fire and dump thousands and thousands of battle pods, drones, and torpedoes, flooding the Star Army's targeting displays with red dots as the enemies missiles and small craft raced towards them in anger. The Resurgence rolled and zigzagged evasively around the burning wreckage of an NMX Escort it had just destroyed. As the cloud of death launched by the NMX fleet closed in, the Resurgence's quad AA gun turrets came to life, prioritizing the enemy torpedoes as they unleashed a flurry of sun-yellow beams.
"Time to get some! Callsign Poet engaging the enemy." Yoshiro said as he dodged enemy fire and launched missiles of his own.
Yayoi moved forward and began her attack, sending missiles like Yoshiro was, to keep enemy pods off of the ship. She also aimed with the Aetheric Pulse Cannon and fired as well on the pods.
"I hate this," Cassie said, "This is too much like the fall of Ketsurui Military Sector," she shuddered, shooting at one of the approaching pods. She hit it in the big orange sensor eye and it spun out of control. "That was the worst day of my life," she said, recalling how her entire unit was killed and she was left stranded in space thinking she would run out of air and die.
"I lost my father to these bastards, never again will I lose friends or loved ones to these bugs!" Yoshiro said and kept firing his weapons and missiles at targets. "It won't be the fall of any more people that we love Cassie, fight and kill them all and we will be better for the enemy's destruction." He had his mother and siblings to protect too, he thought to himself. He would honor his family with his victory.
Chiheisen was keeping close to the resurgence for the time being, using her rather long ranged rifle to begin to pick off incoming battle pods and whatever else dared to approach the Fuji-Class. Her eyes darted about her holographic HUD, this being likely her largest space battle to date.
Sanda was also sticking close to the Resurgence at the moment. The time that the ship was boarded by that advanced type Mishhu and the Captain killed was still fresh in her mind so she wanted to be able to get into the ship fast if something managed to get through their sheilds again.
The tattooed Ranger was maglocked to the Resurgence outer hull and had two shoulder mounted 50 cal gauss cannons blasting away.
Ahead they could see hundreds of starships, all firing their weapons. It was weirdly beautiful in a way but also they knew that all of the burning ships were full of people...below their feet the Resurgence shifted and shuddered as it was struck by enemy fire, which seemed to have a special attention for the Resurgence because of its reputation.
Suddenly, out of the darkness came a large Mishhuvurthyar mecha that landed on the Resurgence's hull as soon as the shields had flickered for a moment. It began shooting the ship's rollbar, damaging the ship's torpedo launchers, then began to try to disable the ship's turrets, which had a hard time hitting something on the hull.
Yayoi stood at Sandas back, firing her Aetheric Pulse Cannons, and Shoulder-Mounted Scalar Machine Guns at her enemies that dared approach. "We need something bigger, say didn't Trowa get a mech?' she asked Sanda as she fired.her eyes widening at the Mishhuvurthyar mecha that dared dirty the hull. She turned her focus on the Mecha.
"Enemy contact, large enemy mech on the hull of the Resurgence!" Yoshiro said and opened fire at the mech. "Come at me you sluggy looking slimy bastard! This line and no further! You have taken a part of me already, you will not take more!!! YAHHHHH!!!" He fired at the Mishhu mech, taking the time to reload his GP12 when it needed fresh ammo.
Sanda ran across the hull to the opposite side of the ship. She couldn't miss the enemy Mech standing there blasting away at the ship. She locked her suit into place and began to shoot everything she had at the Mech, wishing see had something bigger. There was a flash on her HUD as something big was approching. She turned in time to see another Mech come flying towards the one of the Res.
Shosa Trowa Yamamoto flew his Mech at the Mishhu one and slashed at it with his sword. The one eyed Nepleslian had aquired the prototype mech in a last chance salvage and this was the first time he had had a chance to use it in a real fight against an enemy mech.
Chiehisen spotted a group of pods heading right for the ship. The middle had a torpedo on it, which it was lining up, and the others had racks of mini-missiles, which they began to spray in excess, trying to hit the ship's defenders.
"Seems like the kitties need a hand." Came a feminine voice over their comms. "Valkyrie flight at your service. Point us at a target." With this, a flight of five Nepleslian fighter passed over the Resurgence, firing missiles into the incoming battlepods.
Chiheisen gritted her teeth as she turned away from the mech, and facing towards the incoming assault. "Incoming, Ive got it, focus on that mech!" She grunted into comms as she lined up her rifle and took a shot, aimed straight at the lead battle pod, specifically attempting to hit the torpedo. She deployed her NSB's opting to use them to fire at the rest of the battle pods. The Elysian was hoping the formation was close enough together that the torpedo's detonation could affect the others, if not take them out entirely.
"Valkyrie flight, Callsign Poet requesting attack on large enemy mech on the Resurgence, on the hull near the torpedo launchers." Yoshiro said to the Flight and then switched the comms to Sanda. "Sanda, get out of there! Strike on the Mishuu Mecha incoming!"
"Valkyrie 1, copy that. Targeting the big ugly on your hull. Keep your heads down." The five fighters broke off, and lined up an attack run. "Stick to guns people. Don't want to scratch the hull." The four remaining members of Valkyrie flight sent their acknowledgement, and sent a burst of cannon rounds into the mech.
