- RP Date
- YE 46.1
- RP Location
- Concordia Sector
YE 46.1
YSS Resurgence
The YSS Resurgence raced through space towards the secret location of the wormhole the ship has transited before, headed back to the Concordia Sector, as it was being called until someone a better name for it. As the minutes counted down to their arrival at the huge space station on the other side, there was a tension in the air as the crew prepared for battle.
"NMX Forces have returned to the station in an attempt to take it back from the Star Army and the resident AI. This time they sent a pretty substantial fleet," Captain Aoba announced over the ship's intercom system. "The First Fleet has been tasked with responding and keeping them from capturing or destroying the station. We'll be there in about 20 minutes, so prepare the ship for combat and load up your power armor and away team supplies. There will be two main teams, a ship defense quick response force that will stay on the ship in case the Mishhu attempt to board us, and an away team for sending strikes out to enemy ships."
Power Armor Bay
Yayoi was silent as she began suiting up in her Power Armor, ready to bring pain and destruction to the NMX Forces. Silently, she recalled information about them, how they were also Mishuu, and how the NMX were changed manufactured Nekovalkyrja, or atleast some were Nekovalkyrja. Even so, she didnt think anything of it, as she suited up, and armed her power armor with as much fire arms as it can handle, like her batch sister, Kiyo prefered.
Sanda suited up silently and quickly. She was shaping up to be an all out fight with little opportunity for stealth. So the recently married Nep was packing some heavy guns. Lastly, she drew her Straight Silver blade with the dragon engraving on it and kissed it. "Préstame tu fuerza, mi amor." She whispered to the blade, as if it was a communicator to her husband.
Cassie tucked her tail into its spot and lowered herself into her armor in a smooth, well-practiced motion. "Looks like we'll have a target-rich environment," she said. "Watch the balance of blue versus red, if you have too many of them around you they'll target you and the entire group will hit you at once. It's like the NMX uses MMO strategies. No other gamers here? Anyone?"
"Yo." Erika said, turning her attention away from donning her suit. "If you're feeling overwhelmed I have an oversized teleporter with... cooldown cheese? I think that makes sense. I can pull you out unless you're deep in tentacle trouble." The P4003 teleporter attached to her back and a capacitor on her shoulder allowed her to make two teleports in rapid succession. The suit sealed around her with a click.
Yayoi silently, checked her hidden blades, including retracted them, to test how they came out in her mindy's gauntlet. "MMO? ah, gaming, You'd be better asking Yuri about that.. I.. allowed her to play those games, when she was a kid." Yayoi commented to Cassie, while thinking of the strategy she mentioned. Being attacked by a whole group was a familiar one to her, as a stretegy that she'd tried to employ in the past while stuck on Hanako's world.
"VRMMOs are great." Erika said, collecting an Aether Carbine and loading up a few butt packs with grenades and explosives. "PANTHEON does its best, but it either gets things to hard or too easy. There's nothing like fighting a flesh and blood oponent, Even if it is their digital representation. They do weird things that keep you on your toes."
Chiheisen had just finished getting into her Mindy power armor, the Elysian was a little uncomfortable, mainly due to her wings.. But she’d get used to it soon enough. She’d equipped a shiny new Ke-W5-1A LATR, for all her sniping needs, and after some training in the simulator, the birb had chosen to heed Erika’s advice. Drones are love, drones are life: and thus, she had a complement of NSBs ready to fight. She glanced towards the rest of the combatants getting ready, standing by for orders.
Norita, the ship's armorer, came around with a cart full of Type 41 Mini-Missiles and helped load them into armor missile pods for whoever needed some. "Shield piercing, armor piercing, subspace detonator..." she offered various types of munitions.
Yuri stood at the entrance of the Power Armor bay, she took in a deep breath, then silently sent a message to Yayoi, and to Sanda. "Stay safe out there, mom, Aunt Sanda, i know she has your back, and you have hers, but stay safe too!" She said, before she stepped back, looked at the others before hurrying back to the Medical Bay.
Sanda was all suited up save for her helmet. She had already tied and retied her ponytail twice, something she did before a fight. To keep herself from doing it again, she moved around the bay and checked on her teammates. Noticeing the new girl, the birb, Sanda moved over. "You good to go?" She asked.
The Elysian looked over at Sanda from inside her armor, before giving her a firm nod, her wings twitching a little as she gripped onto her LATR. This was after all, her first real combat mission. As realistic and exhilarating as the VR rooms and training was, the looming knowledge that it was faked ruined the vibes. It was pretty fair to say that the birb was very much on edge.
Sanda eyed the new girl. A head nod wasn't going to do it for her. "You sure? Not nervous are you?" It was a little test. If the girl said she wasn't nervous then Sanda knew she was lying and should probably stay back to guard the ship.
"I am ready, just awaiting orders." The Elysian simply responded, before glancing to the view of space provided to them by the exit of the power armor bay. She knew she'd be lying if she said she wasn't nervous, but she didnt really want to admit it either.. "On edge, first time"
Sanda smiled her lightning bolt tattoo across her eye almost seemed to flash. Una Buena respuesta. "I'd be more worried if you wern't a little on edge. The Mishhu arn't pushovers. You'll be fine. Remember your training and stay with the group and you may come out of this alive with a couple of shiny new metals for your baptism of fire."
Sanda would get a simple "Understood" and a small nod from the rather reserved Elysian. She kept watching space fly by, standing by. Not a very social birb this one huh?
Yoshiro was in the armor bay prepping his armor.after he heard that the enemy, the Mishhu had come back to take the station "Not this time." Yoshiro said as he armed his Power armor. He had lost his father to the bastards but he would not let the Mishhu hurt anyone else.
"Who's on defense QRF and who's on offense?" Erika asked after her helmet locked around her head.
Colby Wando and some of the new infantry people were gathering in one part of the armor bay. "I figure we'd watch the ship, unless the senior folks want it the other way," Colby told Erika. "I heard you guys stole an aether generator out of a Mishhuvurthyar ship once, so it sounds like you have that boarding action thing covered."
Colby was soon answered by the First Officer in the affirmative. They would be the reaction force. Appropriate arms were slated for release by the Resurgence's armorer.
"Alright, we'll try and only let a few through to keep you getting bored." Erika replied, smiling under her helmet.
Yayoi glanced to the doors of the Power Armor Bay, before turning her attention to the conversation happening inside.
Yoshiro got in to his armor and started to calibrate his targeting and sensor systems. He stretched his arms and brought his sword he got from the salvage and was sharpening it, getting ready for battle. After sharpening his sword he took a practice swing. Smiling evilly, he put his sword in its sheath and prepared to launch. "I ask for the chance for blood, to slay my enemy and watch his life drain from his eyes!" He said to himself.
"Away Team?" Koyama's voice filtering into their commnet, "What's your status?"
"Raven, ready and wating for co-ordinates." Erika answered. "Feel free to send it."
"Blade Ready for Deployment" Yayoi said tersely as she stepped from her bay now clad in armor.
"Thunder here. Ready to strike." Sanda said as she tied her hair up one last time and donned her helmet.
"Ready to deploy." Chiheisen simply confirmed, awaiting the time to deploy.
"Poet ready to read our enemies the rites of death" Yoshiro said
"The Taisa's come out swinging and is wanting you to deploy. I'm sending you your coordinates and mind the fire. Resurgence is going full tilt with her weaponry. Battle Pod swarms are running pretty thick out there."
"Copy That:" Yayoi said as she prepared to jump out into battle.
- - -
Space
As the ship approached the wormhole, on the bridge navigator Gabriela Lively lined the ship up on the optimal course and sent the ship through the swirling, glowing maw, making the stars outside streak and blur into lines of white and sending the ship floating through an endless ocean of energy. Then they shot out the other side like a cannon and the battle was on. Thousands of ships from the Star Army's First Fleet, their brothers and sisters of battle, were here and engaged in a massive space battle with plentiful NMX ships of all sorts and sizes. Some of the Mishhu ships were familiar models from the Second Mishhuvurthyar War, and others were new models, with reddish hulls covered in spikes and flesh-like material. Quickly the Resurgence's main cannon began to blaze with fury, getting ready to strike. From behind, the YSS Renaissance followed as a wingman ship.
Aboard the Resurgence, alarms sounded briefly as the ship went to full alert, and the various parts of the ship were sealed off with pressurized isolation doors. Inside the medical lab, Poppy sat in a chair on the wall of the medical lab, strapped in and waiting for the first casualties or to be summoned. She was wearing one of the new explorer suits that could almost pass for a Star Army Type 42 jumpsuit. Down in engineering, Pidole was similarly dressed and strapped in, monitoring the ship's systems as the little spikes of energy from the shield system started to appear. Her blue beetle buddy looked at her face with concern and gave a reassuring wing flutter.
"I've tasked Norita to release the appropriate small-arms and other necessities to the QRF personnel." Koyama said to Aoba looking up to the Taisa from her station. "Other stations are reporting ready." She paused then spoke up again, "I'm starting to pickup reports from the station itself and the forces we have down there."
"Excellent, let's find some juicy targets. Any escort ship that's targeting the station or moving towards the station will do. How about that one?" Aoba said, bracketing the target with his telepathic interface. The target info was relayed to the their sister ship, too.
"Firing, captain," Kalena said, training the turrets on it and unleashing the ship's fury.
As the ship drew closer to the enemy the massive swarms of battle pods filled the surrounding space, attempting to get close to any Star Army ship they could and drop torpedoes or pepper the ships with aether fire and missiles.
"Let's get some armor soldiers out there," Aoba said to Koyama, noticing the AA guns struggling to keep up with the sheer volume of targets that needed zapping. It was like a laser lightshow out there as the point defense systems did their thing.
Koyama nodded, "I've got the away team on the line as we speak, Taisa. They're reporting ready. I'll give them the go ahead." Checking her console again she hastened to add, "Renaissance is deploying support out there as well sir. I don't think they want us to take all the glory."
"Lets try this bad boy out." Trowa said to himself. He was aboard the prototype mech he had received from the last chance salvage. He had spend a good deal of time with Norita and some other armors fitting it out and making it combat ready. The suit was fast for its size. It honestly handled more like a Mindy than the huge mech it actually was. It was armed with a long sword for close combat. All it's other weapons were for long and medium range. It was packing a wide range of micro missles and heavy guns.
"Cowboy here. Launching to provide cover." Trowa reported to the Resurgence.
Yoshiro decided to recite his poetry as he launched from the armor bay "Once more unto the breach dear friends, Let us spill the dragon's blood and win the war. I am heavy with rage and the enemy will pay for what they took." Yoshiro said. "Poet launching and engaging the enemy."
The furball of the battle was a sight to behold, with millions of Mishhuvurthyar battle pods, endless shrapnel, Mindy armors, missiles exploding everywhere, mighty Star Army ships and their evil counterparts trading blows and suffering damage. The NMX had charged the First Fleet, and mixed their formation into the Star Army's ranks to make it far more difficult to use area-effect weapons, so this was a real "knife fight" as the starship jockeys called it.
Erika stood in awe of the battle for a moment, the vairous blips of her Mindy bringing her back to reality. "Absolute chaos." She mouthed
Yoshiro scanned the area for the enemy and engaged the nearest enemy with his sword and aether submachine guns.
"I swear if he keeps reciting poetry I'm going to mute his coms." Sanda grumbled to herself at Yoshiro's constant poetry. Space was mess. Sanda hadn't seem fight on this scale since Glimmergold. She'd been a green Santo Hei then. The veterian Itto Heisho got to work.
"Launching, ready to engage" Chiheisen was one of the later launches, due to being both more of a long range combatant and it being her first time. She hesitated momentarily, the Elysian a bit blown away by the sheer scale of the battle going on in front of them, before scouting for an unfortunate enemy contact, for an appetizer!
Yayoi felt the pull of gravity, as she shot out into the field of chaos. Her mind now in a sort of focused battle trance, that was ingrained in her batch, as she prepared to attack.
A small tan battle pod with oversized aether guns and a rack full of missiles immediately tried to get the drop on Erika, performing the Itano Circus missile massacre and sending 40 irregularly-flying mini-missles at her. Two more joined in one of those launched four missiles at Yoshiro and four at Chiheisen, while the other one tried to tag Yayoi with its quad aether cannons.
Erika's HUD blared with lock warnings as the missiles bared down on her. She instinctively teleported out of the way beside the pod. She grabbed hold of her attacker, watching to see if the steaking missiles would come around or if they lost lock.
It seemed like the Elysians appetizer had found her first. Chiheisen's heart made a little jump as her Mindy alerted her of incoming missiles! The Elysian went into reverse, deploying NSB's to shoot down those missiles before they got to her. Chichi aimed her LATR at the battlepod which was targetting her, laying down fire at it to get it off her tail.. err, wings? Also of course, making sure she didnt bump into anything. That'd be funny but not optimal.
"Oh no you don't!" Yoshiro shouted and fired at the pod firing at Yayoi. "You will not harm anyone that I consider my friend." He continued firing at where the pod was until he was sure the target was down.
Yayoi's Mindy warned her about the incoming attack, before Yoshiro came to her aid. She was touched by his bravery.
"Yayoi, it's Poet. You okay?" Yoshiro asked over comms. He was concerned but knew that Yayoi could take of herself.
Yayoi gave an approving gesture with her hands, before she shot off, back into the batttle. Her focus didn't allow her to speak as she fired at a pod with her Aetheric Pulse Cannons.
Yoshiro was blasting Mishhu pods with his aether SMG and cutting others down with his sword laughing maniacally as he did.
The missiles that had been tracking streaked off harmlessly in random directions, having lost their targets. After a moment they self-detonated. The pod slammed itself into the Resurgence's shields and melted, trying to take Erika with it.
Erika had a plan to place some explosives on the pod, but it seemed its kamikaze attack preempted it. Collision alearts blared and she teleported away again, letting the pod slam into the shields. She'd have to wait a few seconds before her teleporter recharged to try something like that again.
"Thunder to Resurgence. Stay alert. We know the mishhu can go through shields. There's so many out here it's hard to keep track of them all." Sanda said as she blasted with her two 50 cal gauss cannons from her shoulders.
"Roger, Thunder." Came the answer from the Resurgence.
In front of the YSS Resurgence, the Escort it had been hitting lost its shields and took a direct hit to the nose from the Resurgence's focused attack of its main cannon, which caved in the enemy ship's hull and went through the ship and out its back end. The ship tore open like a sub sandwich with a firework instead of salami.
As the rest of the First Fleet began to arrive from the Kikyo Sector, the balance of the battle was noticeably starting to shift and there gradually began to be more blue symbols on the HUD than red ones. The Mishhu began to bug out, flickering into hyperspace in shimmers of orange light, leaving a large number of their pods simply abandoned to become impromptu kamikaze drones.
The second NMX ship the Resurgence attacked wasn't lucky enough to escape. As it turned to leave, the Resurgence hit it in the aft engine cluster with a direct salvo and it stumbled towards a nearby planet, leaving a trail of debris and smoke.
Yayoi flew around, and began to perform a recreated maneuver that her old resistance buddies called the Jack in the Box. Where in she caught the attention of her enemies and as they came at her at full speed, she'd suddenly teleport behind them, allowing gravity to force them to slam into either, asteroids, the star, or other ships.
Yoshiro scanned for enemies as the fight continued and took out targets of opportunity as he was continuing the fight. He was enjoying his fights with the enemy and continued to fight the enemies that were close enough to reach.
When her capacitors had recharged Erika preformed a similar maneuver against another pod vectored to strike the Res. This time however she had a shaped charge stuffed with explosives in her hands. She appeared beside the pod and attached the device to its surface before kicking off and blowing it.
"Secure the area," Aoba ordered the away team, as the Mishhuvurthyar abandoned the attack on the station.
"I've got the Renaissance's XO on comms, Taisa. They've started to run sweeps of the area. Their armor team's reporting some of the pods are trying to play possum out there in the debris field." Aoba's First Officer reported, "They're saying they will be poking around the immediate area to try and make sure whatever's out there'll stay dead."
"All seems a bit easy doesn't it?" Erika commented as she continued to fire.
"Dont say that. Never say that" Chiheisen responded as she nestled up in an imaginary space nest as she began to take advantage of her LATR's lovely range, picking off as many kamikaze battle pods as she could to ensure none of them even had the chance to attempt to ram into the Resurgence, or other ships surrounding the vicinity. She continually moved positions to avoid incoming fire.
Sanda flew over towards Trowa's mech. The mech had taken out a number of battle pods with seemingly ease. "Pretty sweet mech there Trowa."
Trowa smiled. "Yep this thing sure packs a punch. I'm not sure about the heavy weaponry and the sword together though. I think I'll need to fine tune it a bit with Norita after this is over. Maybe have two loadouts. One for just pure destructive power and one for speed and close quarders."
Cassie charged after the overgunned Mishhu pods, feeling no remorse for their enslaved brains that acted as their pilots. It was better to put them out of their misery. She barely dodged a spray of aether from one. "Shit," she accidentally cursed on comms. "Okay, tag one," she said, finally hitting her target in one of its glowing orange eyes.
Yayoi appeared close by Cassie, as she came to her aid. She noted the Pods still attacking her, and began to divert their attention if possible with another few shots of her Aetheric Pulse Cannon.
"Time to die squiddies!" Yoshiro shouted as he stabbed a Mishhu in the head and shot it at the same time. "mwahahahahahaha! I will destroy you all!!!" He shot another one in the face and shouted "Squid's back on the menu, boys and girls! Yum yum, get you some!"
As things wound down, Aoba recalled everyone to the ship and they began to chase after the damaged Mishhuvurthyar vessel, heading towards the planet it had fallen on. Perhaps it had some clues...
= = =
OOC: JP by Wes, Cowboy, Charaa, Sunny D, Yoshiro, Soresu, Liza
YSS Resurgence
The YSS Resurgence raced through space towards the secret location of the wormhole the ship has transited before, headed back to the Concordia Sector, as it was being called until someone a better name for it. As the minutes counted down to their arrival at the huge space station on the other side, there was a tension in the air as the crew prepared for battle.
"NMX Forces have returned to the station in an attempt to take it back from the Star Army and the resident AI. This time they sent a pretty substantial fleet," Captain Aoba announced over the ship's intercom system. "The First Fleet has been tasked with responding and keeping them from capturing or destroying the station. We'll be there in about 20 minutes, so prepare the ship for combat and load up your power armor and away team supplies. There will be two main teams, a ship defense quick response force that will stay on the ship in case the Mishhu attempt to board us, and an away team for sending strikes out to enemy ships."
Power Armor Bay
Yayoi was silent as she began suiting up in her Power Armor, ready to bring pain and destruction to the NMX Forces. Silently, she recalled information about them, how they were also Mishuu, and how the NMX were changed manufactured Nekovalkyrja, or atleast some were Nekovalkyrja. Even so, she didnt think anything of it, as she suited up, and armed her power armor with as much fire arms as it can handle, like her batch sister, Kiyo prefered.
Sanda suited up silently and quickly. She was shaping up to be an all out fight with little opportunity for stealth. So the recently married Nep was packing some heavy guns. Lastly, she drew her Straight Silver blade with the dragon engraving on it and kissed it. "Préstame tu fuerza, mi amor." She whispered to the blade, as if it was a communicator to her husband.
Cassie tucked her tail into its spot and lowered herself into her armor in a smooth, well-practiced motion. "Looks like we'll have a target-rich environment," she said. "Watch the balance of blue versus red, if you have too many of them around you they'll target you and the entire group will hit you at once. It's like the NMX uses MMO strategies. No other gamers here? Anyone?"
"Yo." Erika said, turning her attention away from donning her suit. "If you're feeling overwhelmed I have an oversized teleporter with... cooldown cheese? I think that makes sense. I can pull you out unless you're deep in tentacle trouble." The P4003 teleporter attached to her back and a capacitor on her shoulder allowed her to make two teleports in rapid succession. The suit sealed around her with a click.
Yayoi silently, checked her hidden blades, including retracted them, to test how they came out in her mindy's gauntlet. "MMO? ah, gaming, You'd be better asking Yuri about that.. I.. allowed her to play those games, when she was a kid." Yayoi commented to Cassie, while thinking of the strategy she mentioned. Being attacked by a whole group was a familiar one to her, as a stretegy that she'd tried to employ in the past while stuck on Hanako's world.
"VRMMOs are great." Erika said, collecting an Aether Carbine and loading up a few butt packs with grenades and explosives. "PANTHEON does its best, but it either gets things to hard or too easy. There's nothing like fighting a flesh and blood oponent, Even if it is their digital representation. They do weird things that keep you on your toes."
Chiheisen had just finished getting into her Mindy power armor, the Elysian was a little uncomfortable, mainly due to her wings.. But she’d get used to it soon enough. She’d equipped a shiny new Ke-W5-1A LATR, for all her sniping needs, and after some training in the simulator, the birb had chosen to heed Erika’s advice. Drones are love, drones are life: and thus, she had a complement of NSBs ready to fight. She glanced towards the rest of the combatants getting ready, standing by for orders.
Norita, the ship's armorer, came around with a cart full of Type 41 Mini-Missiles and helped load them into armor missile pods for whoever needed some. "Shield piercing, armor piercing, subspace detonator..." she offered various types of munitions.
Yuri stood at the entrance of the Power Armor bay, she took in a deep breath, then silently sent a message to Yayoi, and to Sanda. "Stay safe out there, mom, Aunt Sanda, i know she has your back, and you have hers, but stay safe too!" She said, before she stepped back, looked at the others before hurrying back to the Medical Bay.
Sanda was all suited up save for her helmet. She had already tied and retied her ponytail twice, something she did before a fight. To keep herself from doing it again, she moved around the bay and checked on her teammates. Noticeing the new girl, the birb, Sanda moved over. "You good to go?" She asked.
The Elysian looked over at Sanda from inside her armor, before giving her a firm nod, her wings twitching a little as she gripped onto her LATR. This was after all, her first real combat mission. As realistic and exhilarating as the VR rooms and training was, the looming knowledge that it was faked ruined the vibes. It was pretty fair to say that the birb was very much on edge.
Sanda eyed the new girl. A head nod wasn't going to do it for her. "You sure? Not nervous are you?" It was a little test. If the girl said she wasn't nervous then Sanda knew she was lying and should probably stay back to guard the ship.
"I am ready, just awaiting orders." The Elysian simply responded, before glancing to the view of space provided to them by the exit of the power armor bay. She knew she'd be lying if she said she wasn't nervous, but she didnt really want to admit it either.. "On edge, first time"
Sanda smiled her lightning bolt tattoo across her eye almost seemed to flash. Una Buena respuesta. "I'd be more worried if you wern't a little on edge. The Mishhu arn't pushovers. You'll be fine. Remember your training and stay with the group and you may come out of this alive with a couple of shiny new metals for your baptism of fire."
Sanda would get a simple "Understood" and a small nod from the rather reserved Elysian. She kept watching space fly by, standing by. Not a very social birb this one huh?
Yoshiro was in the armor bay prepping his armor.after he heard that the enemy, the Mishhu had come back to take the station "Not this time." Yoshiro said as he armed his Power armor. He had lost his father to the bastards but he would not let the Mishhu hurt anyone else.
"Who's on defense QRF and who's on offense?" Erika asked after her helmet locked around her head.
Colby Wando and some of the new infantry people were gathering in one part of the armor bay. "I figure we'd watch the ship, unless the senior folks want it the other way," Colby told Erika. "I heard you guys stole an aether generator out of a Mishhuvurthyar ship once, so it sounds like you have that boarding action thing covered."
Colby was soon answered by the First Officer in the affirmative. They would be the reaction force. Appropriate arms were slated for release by the Resurgence's armorer.
"Alright, we'll try and only let a few through to keep you getting bored." Erika replied, smiling under her helmet.
Yayoi glanced to the doors of the Power Armor Bay, before turning her attention to the conversation happening inside.
Yoshiro got in to his armor and started to calibrate his targeting and sensor systems. He stretched his arms and brought his sword he got from the salvage and was sharpening it, getting ready for battle. After sharpening his sword he took a practice swing. Smiling evilly, he put his sword in its sheath and prepared to launch. "I ask for the chance for blood, to slay my enemy and watch his life drain from his eyes!" He said to himself.
"Away Team?" Koyama's voice filtering into their commnet, "What's your status?"
"Raven, ready and wating for co-ordinates." Erika answered. "Feel free to send it."
"Blade Ready for Deployment" Yayoi said tersely as she stepped from her bay now clad in armor.
"Thunder here. Ready to strike." Sanda said as she tied her hair up one last time and donned her helmet.
"Ready to deploy." Chiheisen simply confirmed, awaiting the time to deploy.
"Poet ready to read our enemies the rites of death" Yoshiro said
"The Taisa's come out swinging and is wanting you to deploy. I'm sending you your coordinates and mind the fire. Resurgence is going full tilt with her weaponry. Battle Pod swarms are running pretty thick out there."
"Copy That:" Yayoi said as she prepared to jump out into battle.
- - -
Space
As the ship approached the wormhole, on the bridge navigator Gabriela Lively lined the ship up on the optimal course and sent the ship through the swirling, glowing maw, making the stars outside streak and blur into lines of white and sending the ship floating through an endless ocean of energy. Then they shot out the other side like a cannon and the battle was on. Thousands of ships from the Star Army's First Fleet, their brothers and sisters of battle, were here and engaged in a massive space battle with plentiful NMX ships of all sorts and sizes. Some of the Mishhu ships were familiar models from the Second Mishhuvurthyar War, and others were new models, with reddish hulls covered in spikes and flesh-like material. Quickly the Resurgence's main cannon began to blaze with fury, getting ready to strike. From behind, the YSS Renaissance followed as a wingman ship.
Aboard the Resurgence, alarms sounded briefly as the ship went to full alert, and the various parts of the ship were sealed off with pressurized isolation doors. Inside the medical lab, Poppy sat in a chair on the wall of the medical lab, strapped in and waiting for the first casualties or to be summoned. She was wearing one of the new explorer suits that could almost pass for a Star Army Type 42 jumpsuit. Down in engineering, Pidole was similarly dressed and strapped in, monitoring the ship's systems as the little spikes of energy from the shield system started to appear. Her blue beetle buddy looked at her face with concern and gave a reassuring wing flutter.
"I've tasked Norita to release the appropriate small-arms and other necessities to the QRF personnel." Koyama said to Aoba looking up to the Taisa from her station. "Other stations are reporting ready." She paused then spoke up again, "I'm starting to pickup reports from the station itself and the forces we have down there."
"Excellent, let's find some juicy targets. Any escort ship that's targeting the station or moving towards the station will do. How about that one?" Aoba said, bracketing the target with his telepathic interface. The target info was relayed to the their sister ship, too.
"Firing, captain," Kalena said, training the turrets on it and unleashing the ship's fury.
As the ship drew closer to the enemy the massive swarms of battle pods filled the surrounding space, attempting to get close to any Star Army ship they could and drop torpedoes or pepper the ships with aether fire and missiles.
"Let's get some armor soldiers out there," Aoba said to Koyama, noticing the AA guns struggling to keep up with the sheer volume of targets that needed zapping. It was like a laser lightshow out there as the point defense systems did their thing.
Koyama nodded, "I've got the away team on the line as we speak, Taisa. They're reporting ready. I'll give them the go ahead." Checking her console again she hastened to add, "Renaissance is deploying support out there as well sir. I don't think they want us to take all the glory."
"Lets try this bad boy out." Trowa said to himself. He was aboard the prototype mech he had received from the last chance salvage. He had spend a good deal of time with Norita and some other armors fitting it out and making it combat ready. The suit was fast for its size. It honestly handled more like a Mindy than the huge mech it actually was. It was armed with a long sword for close combat. All it's other weapons were for long and medium range. It was packing a wide range of micro missles and heavy guns.
"Cowboy here. Launching to provide cover." Trowa reported to the Resurgence.
Yoshiro decided to recite his poetry as he launched from the armor bay "Once more unto the breach dear friends, Let us spill the dragon's blood and win the war. I am heavy with rage and the enemy will pay for what they took." Yoshiro said. "Poet launching and engaging the enemy."
The furball of the battle was a sight to behold, with millions of Mishhuvurthyar battle pods, endless shrapnel, Mindy armors, missiles exploding everywhere, mighty Star Army ships and their evil counterparts trading blows and suffering damage. The NMX had charged the First Fleet, and mixed their formation into the Star Army's ranks to make it far more difficult to use area-effect weapons, so this was a real "knife fight" as the starship jockeys called it.
Erika stood in awe of the battle for a moment, the vairous blips of her Mindy bringing her back to reality. "Absolute chaos." She mouthed
Yoshiro scanned the area for the enemy and engaged the nearest enemy with his sword and aether submachine guns.
"I swear if he keeps reciting poetry I'm going to mute his coms." Sanda grumbled to herself at Yoshiro's constant poetry. Space was mess. Sanda hadn't seem fight on this scale since Glimmergold. She'd been a green Santo Hei then. The veterian Itto Heisho got to work.
"Launching, ready to engage" Chiheisen was one of the later launches, due to being both more of a long range combatant and it being her first time. She hesitated momentarily, the Elysian a bit blown away by the sheer scale of the battle going on in front of them, before scouting for an unfortunate enemy contact, for an appetizer!
Yayoi felt the pull of gravity, as she shot out into the field of chaos. Her mind now in a sort of focused battle trance, that was ingrained in her batch, as she prepared to attack.
A small tan battle pod with oversized aether guns and a rack full of missiles immediately tried to get the drop on Erika, performing the Itano Circus missile massacre and sending 40 irregularly-flying mini-missles at her. Two more joined in one of those launched four missiles at Yoshiro and four at Chiheisen, while the other one tried to tag Yayoi with its quad aether cannons.
Erika's HUD blared with lock warnings as the missiles bared down on her. She instinctively teleported out of the way beside the pod. She grabbed hold of her attacker, watching to see if the steaking missiles would come around or if they lost lock.
It seemed like the Elysians appetizer had found her first. Chiheisen's heart made a little jump as her Mindy alerted her of incoming missiles! The Elysian went into reverse, deploying NSB's to shoot down those missiles before they got to her. Chichi aimed her LATR at the battlepod which was targetting her, laying down fire at it to get it off her tail.. err, wings? Also of course, making sure she didnt bump into anything. That'd be funny but not optimal.
"Oh no you don't!" Yoshiro shouted and fired at the pod firing at Yayoi. "You will not harm anyone that I consider my friend." He continued firing at where the pod was until he was sure the target was down.
Yayoi's Mindy warned her about the incoming attack, before Yoshiro came to her aid. She was touched by his bravery.
"Yayoi, it's Poet. You okay?" Yoshiro asked over comms. He was concerned but knew that Yayoi could take of herself.
Yayoi gave an approving gesture with her hands, before she shot off, back into the batttle. Her focus didn't allow her to speak as she fired at a pod with her Aetheric Pulse Cannons.
Yoshiro was blasting Mishhu pods with his aether SMG and cutting others down with his sword laughing maniacally as he did.
The missiles that had been tracking streaked off harmlessly in random directions, having lost their targets. After a moment they self-detonated. The pod slammed itself into the Resurgence's shields and melted, trying to take Erika with it.
Erika had a plan to place some explosives on the pod, but it seemed its kamikaze attack preempted it. Collision alearts blared and she teleported away again, letting the pod slam into the shields. She'd have to wait a few seconds before her teleporter recharged to try something like that again.
"Thunder to Resurgence. Stay alert. We know the mishhu can go through shields. There's so many out here it's hard to keep track of them all." Sanda said as she blasted with her two 50 cal gauss cannons from her shoulders.
"Roger, Thunder." Came the answer from the Resurgence.
In front of the YSS Resurgence, the Escort it had been hitting lost its shields and took a direct hit to the nose from the Resurgence's focused attack of its main cannon, which caved in the enemy ship's hull and went through the ship and out its back end. The ship tore open like a sub sandwich with a firework instead of salami.
As the rest of the First Fleet began to arrive from the Kikyo Sector, the balance of the battle was noticeably starting to shift and there gradually began to be more blue symbols on the HUD than red ones. The Mishhu began to bug out, flickering into hyperspace in shimmers of orange light, leaving a large number of their pods simply abandoned to become impromptu kamikaze drones.
The second NMX ship the Resurgence attacked wasn't lucky enough to escape. As it turned to leave, the Resurgence hit it in the aft engine cluster with a direct salvo and it stumbled towards a nearby planet, leaving a trail of debris and smoke.
Yayoi flew around, and began to perform a recreated maneuver that her old resistance buddies called the Jack in the Box. Where in she caught the attention of her enemies and as they came at her at full speed, she'd suddenly teleport behind them, allowing gravity to force them to slam into either, asteroids, the star, or other ships.
Yoshiro scanned for enemies as the fight continued and took out targets of opportunity as he was continuing the fight. He was enjoying his fights with the enemy and continued to fight the enemies that were close enough to reach.
When her capacitors had recharged Erika preformed a similar maneuver against another pod vectored to strike the Res. This time however she had a shaped charge stuffed with explosives in her hands. She appeared beside the pod and attached the device to its surface before kicking off and blowing it.
"Secure the area," Aoba ordered the away team, as the Mishhuvurthyar abandoned the attack on the station.
"I've got the Renaissance's XO on comms, Taisa. They've started to run sweeps of the area. Their armor team's reporting some of the pods are trying to play possum out there in the debris field." Aoba's First Officer reported, "They're saying they will be poking around the immediate area to try and make sure whatever's out there'll stay dead."
"All seems a bit easy doesn't it?" Erika commented as she continued to fire.
"Dont say that. Never say that" Chiheisen responded as she nestled up in an imaginary space nest as she began to take advantage of her LATR's lovely range, picking off as many kamikaze battle pods as she could to ensure none of them even had the chance to attempt to ram into the Resurgence, or other ships surrounding the vicinity. She continually moved positions to avoid incoming fire.
Sanda flew over towards Trowa's mech. The mech had taken out a number of battle pods with seemingly ease. "Pretty sweet mech there Trowa."
Trowa smiled. "Yep this thing sure packs a punch. I'm not sure about the heavy weaponry and the sword together though. I think I'll need to fine tune it a bit with Norita after this is over. Maybe have two loadouts. One for just pure destructive power and one for speed and close quarders."
Cassie charged after the overgunned Mishhu pods, feeling no remorse for their enslaved brains that acted as their pilots. It was better to put them out of their misery. She barely dodged a spray of aether from one. "Shit," she accidentally cursed on comms. "Okay, tag one," she said, finally hitting her target in one of its glowing orange eyes.
Yayoi appeared close by Cassie, as she came to her aid. She noted the Pods still attacking her, and began to divert their attention if possible with another few shots of her Aetheric Pulse Cannon.
"Time to die squiddies!" Yoshiro shouted as he stabbed a Mishhu in the head and shot it at the same time. "mwahahahahahaha! I will destroy you all!!!" He shot another one in the face and shouted "Squid's back on the menu, boys and girls! Yum yum, get you some!"
As things wound down, Aoba recalled everyone to the ship and they began to chase after the damaged Mishhuvurthyar vessel, heading towards the planet it had fallen on. Perhaps it had some clues...
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OOC: JP by Wes, Cowboy, Charaa, Sunny D, Yoshiro, Soresu, Liza
