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ON> NSS Hornet
"This simulation," Drei explained, the command table in front of the garts sparking to life, showing the image of a barren star systems. "Covers what we've seen of the NMX so far. If you are that eager to get into combat you should probably get a chance to try your skills before risking your soldiers lives."
While the NSS Hive was busy unloading combat drones that could be attached to gart ships, the NSS Hornet was hosting a small get together with a few of the Garts who had been a little to eager to jump into combat. Drei was hoping to show them that they stood a better chance if they took their time and waited instead of rushing in. Wazu had warned her about their 'warrior spirt' and this seemed the logical way to promote a course of caution.
"War games is the best way to get us familiar with an enemy we know little about." Drei responded. "Many of out commanders wish to simply rush in and put their warrior spirit to the test." She continued. Solar Commander Hujin considers this a joke, but Commander Tam is taking these exercises quite seriously. We intend to send the recordings of these war games to every ship in the fleet so that they may practice similar combat scenarios."
"Eager to get into combat is not a term I'd use. We would prefer to leave well enough alone, but your people have it on good authority that we should at the very least be prepared."
As she spoke Four of the Fleet's cruisers were docked with the Hive to be equipped with the drones. Gian, Commander Hujin, and Tam were both onboard the NSS Hornet, waiting to see what scenarios and situations drei had for them.
"I've rendered a few of your ships against similarly sized NMX craft based on a model that we encountered at Higaflan. I will be letting you command these starships while I run operations onboard the NMX starships."
The display would blink away from the star system which only had one planet of interest, a gas giant with an orbiting mining station, and instead show five Gartagen Union starships in transit to the system via hyperspace fold. "When you are ready, you may begin." She offered.
Hujin stepped up. "Commander Tam, you are in command of the D'jehendrezade." She said sternly. Gian stood back and silently watched Shara's defender's do their jobs. Tam pointed out "Set specifications to this craft to match those on the D'jehendrezade, Drei."
Hujin ordered the course held, and suddenly the five Mk1 Cruiser's completed their in system jump. The simulated craft enter the system in a simple line formation. "All Ship's scramble fighter wings. " She said looking up at the simulated scanner. "I want full scanner sweeps of the system, D'jehdrezade, give me all intel on that station in orbit of the gas giant. I want those fighters to organize into three groups of ssix squadrons."
"Keep weapons at the ready, counter measures and f2s."
The NMX had a handful of battlepods scattered about the system, in a typical orbit around the star. One would already be heading for the Gartagan battle group as it arrived. The main NMX battlegroup consisted of five escort class starships, four of which were full of battlepods. The moment that the Gart ships entered the system they would already be making their own hyperspace jump, flashing out of existence for a few moments.
The starships would then appear in a staggered sphere formation, all of them facing 10 degrees to the left of the Gart starships, only half a light second away from the garts at the 'end' of their line so that the Gart ships would be positioned in such a way as to block each other’s fields of fire while the NMX starships would be able to turn most of their weapons towards their targets.
They would then unleash a volley of anti-starship fire towards the closest Gart ship while launching their battlepods. The few anti-fighter turrets that were unable to take aim at the Gart ships would begin spitting out beams towards the sides and rear of the ships, trying to build up a pattern of weapon fire that would discourage the garts from jumping to those locations.
The destroyers upon making contact immediately began maneuvering their formation, and launched their f2 drones. so that they would be able to bring their weapons to bare against the incoming enemy destroyers. The enemy had gotten the drop on them, but the closest Gartagen ship released a defensive cloud into the cone of fire. Coupled with the fact that it had maneuvered to avoid taking the brunt of enemy fire, it did take a brutal set of hits. The Cruiser was now dead in the water, suffering massive hull breaches and power failures across all decks. The only thing that still seemed to function was the surviving drones that swiftly detached from the craft.
As the f2 drones activated, they fired beams into their respective ships, activating their FTL drives. The f2 then activated their own FTL drives and jumped to with in point blank range of the enemy cruisers.
The Sundancer squadrons who had been abandoned went into action as they moved to intercept the incoming battle pod squadrons. They are at point blank range so each fighter set their missiles to the cruisers and fired them off in one solid volly.
The Gartagen Cruiser's did not jump very far however. it had been preprogrammed into the drones to make them get behind the enemy fleet. The four remaining cruisers winked into existence, and immediately open fire with their XRASER cannons into the rear of the NMX destroyer formation
As the NMX starship's shields started absorbing XASER fire, their weapons turned to track the Gartagan ships, this time splitting their firepower between three of the remaining starships as their battlepods turned towards the last starship. They were going to destroy their enemy regardless of losses.
With the starships still at point blank range, it would take only fractions of a second for the weapons fire to reach the gart ships. At the same time the battlepods that had been launched would use their own FTL systems to close the distance with the 4th, so far untouched, Gartagan starship. They would appear at point blank range and begin unloading cannon and missile fire into the ship. All of the pods remained in the forward quadrant of gart ship, where its weapons were already targeting the NMX Destroyers...
...Which would be able to turn on their interdiction fields for a few moments as Drone after Drone impacted their shields, which flickered and shut down one by one, letting the drones slam into the sides of the ships, blowing them to pieces long before the nuclear missiles arrived.
As the NMX returned fire, the Ablative armor on the three craft were struck, and managed to Turn back some of the damage before failing and letting the damage through to the armor. The first Cruiser was rocked and began suffering hull breaches and massive power failures, and began drivting as the crew struggled to get primary power back on.. The second cruiser Had advanced into their cone of fire as a sacrificial lamb in an effort to save the rest of the group. The force of the damage seemingly ripped the vessel in half, with the majority of her crew being killed in the spectacular explosion. The Third suffered medium level damage thanks in part to the sacrifice of its sister ship, and formed up with Hujin's command ship and the D'hendrezade. They deactivated the missiles, and began moving in to assist the protecting the fourth cruiser which was crippled.
The remaining drones that had not suicided in immediately turned around, and hit their engines up to .5c in an effort to aid the Sundancer squadrons in fending off the Battlepods.
HE missiles and XRASER cannons began striking the battle pods as the Sundancers desperately tried to defend the fallen MK1 Cruiser. They seemed un stoppable until some of the Gartagen Pilots exited the frey, and dumped a massive sand cloud from their mini sand casters.
Ultimately, the Gart ships and drones would be too late, only able to react to the FTL assult from the battlepods that were tearing into their target at only a few hundred kilometers distance. Without their own FTL systems they wouldn't even be able to get in the way before their weapons fire reached its target. By this point the Battlepods would turn towards the fighters and drones, spreading out and beginning their attack but it didn't really matter. Without capital ships the smaller fighters and drones were stranded while the NMX merely needed to wait for their next batch of reinforcements to arrive.
Drei looked a bit disappointed, "I am certain I can improve upon my NMX AI program." She said out loud, "That result was a bit disappointing, they should have activated their interdiction field earlier."
Hujin smirked. "Ambushed, and caught off guard, they will still beat us in numbers." Tam merely shrugged. "Mutual destruction is not the goal we need to strive for." he said looking up to Drei "The harder the A.I. the better, because in real combat we will only get one shot to win. Their ships are faster then our own, but our weapons can still hurt them, this is good knowledge to have."
"As I am sure you are aware, even dust particles moving fast enough pack enough power to destroy even heavily armored starships. This ship has less armor than most in its size class because of the sheer difficulty in using armor to protect against attacks."
"So our sand cannons used in mass would prove a viable weapon against targets of this nature?" Tam said stroking his blue chin. "Fascinating."
"I was under the impression that was the reason you employed sand cannons?" Drei asked.
"Typically we use the sand cannons to act as a screen for enemy strike craft, missiles, and space debris. It has been found that setting a cloud in the face of enemy fire can scatter, and filter it out, however when doing that it does the same to our weapons as well." Tam said. "Typically that tactic is used when defending a planet or a damaged ship."
"I see." Drei said, "First off, you should be using Carbon or Boron rather than a silicon based projectile. The higher vaporization point per energy makes these materials a superior choice. Also, for the same amount of mass, it is generally better to use a solid material for protection in the form of a whipple shield. Pre-scattered sand might do some damage to a missile but it would be ineffective against a laser."
"Experimentation with Carbon is being conducted for the Sand Cannons. As far as a whipple shield. A device was invented, just never utilized. Too specialized." Hujin said calmly.
"There are over 30 types of that shield being used to protect this starship. They are highly effective against extreme velocity impacts and size factors are not an issue with space based hardware." Drei explained, "Now, would you like to try again?"
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"This simulation," Drei explained, the command table in front of the garts sparking to life, showing the image of a barren star systems. "Covers what we've seen of the NMX so far. If you are that eager to get into combat you should probably get a chance to try your skills before risking your soldiers lives."
While the NSS Hive was busy unloading combat drones that could be attached to gart ships, the NSS Hornet was hosting a small get together with a few of the Garts who had been a little to eager to jump into combat. Drei was hoping to show them that they stood a better chance if they took their time and waited instead of rushing in. Wazu had warned her about their 'warrior spirt' and this seemed the logical way to promote a course of caution.
"War games is the best way to get us familiar with an enemy we know little about." Drei responded. "Many of out commanders wish to simply rush in and put their warrior spirit to the test." She continued. Solar Commander Hujin considers this a joke, but Commander Tam is taking these exercises quite seriously. We intend to send the recordings of these war games to every ship in the fleet so that they may practice similar combat scenarios."
"Eager to get into combat is not a term I'd use. We would prefer to leave well enough alone, but your people have it on good authority that we should at the very least be prepared."
As she spoke Four of the Fleet's cruisers were docked with the Hive to be equipped with the drones. Gian, Commander Hujin, and Tam were both onboard the NSS Hornet, waiting to see what scenarios and situations drei had for them.
"I've rendered a few of your ships against similarly sized NMX craft based on a model that we encountered at Higaflan. I will be letting you command these starships while I run operations onboard the NMX starships."
The display would blink away from the star system which only had one planet of interest, a gas giant with an orbiting mining station, and instead show five Gartagen Union starships in transit to the system via hyperspace fold. "When you are ready, you may begin." She offered.
Hujin stepped up. "Commander Tam, you are in command of the D'jehendrezade." She said sternly. Gian stood back and silently watched Shara's defender's do their jobs. Tam pointed out "Set specifications to this craft to match those on the D'jehendrezade, Drei."
Hujin ordered the course held, and suddenly the five Mk1 Cruiser's completed their in system jump. The simulated craft enter the system in a simple line formation. "All Ship's scramble fighter wings. " She said looking up at the simulated scanner. "I want full scanner sweeps of the system, D'jehdrezade, give me all intel on that station in orbit of the gas giant. I want those fighters to organize into three groups of ssix squadrons."
"Keep weapons at the ready, counter measures and f2s."
The NMX had a handful of battlepods scattered about the system, in a typical orbit around the star. One would already be heading for the Gartagan battle group as it arrived. The main NMX battlegroup consisted of five escort class starships, four of which were full of battlepods. The moment that the Gart ships entered the system they would already be making their own hyperspace jump, flashing out of existence for a few moments.
The starships would then appear in a staggered sphere formation, all of them facing 10 degrees to the left of the Gart starships, only half a light second away from the garts at the 'end' of their line so that the Gart ships would be positioned in such a way as to block each other’s fields of fire while the NMX starships would be able to turn most of their weapons towards their targets.
They would then unleash a volley of anti-starship fire towards the closest Gart ship while launching their battlepods. The few anti-fighter turrets that were unable to take aim at the Gart ships would begin spitting out beams towards the sides and rear of the ships, trying to build up a pattern of weapon fire that would discourage the garts from jumping to those locations.
The destroyers upon making contact immediately began maneuvering their formation, and launched their f2 drones. so that they would be able to bring their weapons to bare against the incoming enemy destroyers. The enemy had gotten the drop on them, but the closest Gartagen ship released a defensive cloud into the cone of fire. Coupled with the fact that it had maneuvered to avoid taking the brunt of enemy fire, it did take a brutal set of hits. The Cruiser was now dead in the water, suffering massive hull breaches and power failures across all decks. The only thing that still seemed to function was the surviving drones that swiftly detached from the craft.
As the f2 drones activated, they fired beams into their respective ships, activating their FTL drives. The f2 then activated their own FTL drives and jumped to with in point blank range of the enemy cruisers.
The Sundancer squadrons who had been abandoned went into action as they moved to intercept the incoming battle pod squadrons. They are at point blank range so each fighter set their missiles to the cruisers and fired them off in one solid volly.
The Gartagen Cruiser's did not jump very far however. it had been preprogrammed into the drones to make them get behind the enemy fleet. The four remaining cruisers winked into existence, and immediately open fire with their XRASER cannons into the rear of the NMX destroyer formation
As the NMX starship's shields started absorbing XASER fire, their weapons turned to track the Gartagan ships, this time splitting their firepower between three of the remaining starships as their battlepods turned towards the last starship. They were going to destroy their enemy regardless of losses.
With the starships still at point blank range, it would take only fractions of a second for the weapons fire to reach the gart ships. At the same time the battlepods that had been launched would use their own FTL systems to close the distance with the 4th, so far untouched, Gartagan starship. They would appear at point blank range and begin unloading cannon and missile fire into the ship. All of the pods remained in the forward quadrant of gart ship, where its weapons were already targeting the NMX Destroyers...
...Which would be able to turn on their interdiction fields for a few moments as Drone after Drone impacted their shields, which flickered and shut down one by one, letting the drones slam into the sides of the ships, blowing them to pieces long before the nuclear missiles arrived.
As the NMX returned fire, the Ablative armor on the three craft were struck, and managed to Turn back some of the damage before failing and letting the damage through to the armor. The first Cruiser was rocked and began suffering hull breaches and massive power failures, and began drivting as the crew struggled to get primary power back on.. The second cruiser Had advanced into their cone of fire as a sacrificial lamb in an effort to save the rest of the group. The force of the damage seemingly ripped the vessel in half, with the majority of her crew being killed in the spectacular explosion. The Third suffered medium level damage thanks in part to the sacrifice of its sister ship, and formed up with Hujin's command ship and the D'hendrezade. They deactivated the missiles, and began moving in to assist the protecting the fourth cruiser which was crippled.
The remaining drones that had not suicided in immediately turned around, and hit their engines up to .5c in an effort to aid the Sundancer squadrons in fending off the Battlepods.
HE missiles and XRASER cannons began striking the battle pods as the Sundancers desperately tried to defend the fallen MK1 Cruiser. They seemed un stoppable until some of the Gartagen Pilots exited the frey, and dumped a massive sand cloud from their mini sand casters.
Ultimately, the Gart ships and drones would be too late, only able to react to the FTL assult from the battlepods that were tearing into their target at only a few hundred kilometers distance. Without their own FTL systems they wouldn't even be able to get in the way before their weapons fire reached its target. By this point the Battlepods would turn towards the fighters and drones, spreading out and beginning their attack but it didn't really matter. Without capital ships the smaller fighters and drones were stranded while the NMX merely needed to wait for their next batch of reinforcements to arrive.
Drei looked a bit disappointed, "I am certain I can improve upon my NMX AI program." She said out loud, "That result was a bit disappointing, they should have activated their interdiction field earlier."
Hujin smirked. "Ambushed, and caught off guard, they will still beat us in numbers." Tam merely shrugged. "Mutual destruction is not the goal we need to strive for." he said looking up to Drei "The harder the A.I. the better, because in real combat we will only get one shot to win. Their ships are faster then our own, but our weapons can still hurt them, this is good knowledge to have."
"As I am sure you are aware, even dust particles moving fast enough pack enough power to destroy even heavily armored starships. This ship has less armor than most in its size class because of the sheer difficulty in using armor to protect against attacks."
"So our sand cannons used in mass would prove a viable weapon against targets of this nature?" Tam said stroking his blue chin. "Fascinating."
"I was under the impression that was the reason you employed sand cannons?" Drei asked.
"Typically we use the sand cannons to act as a screen for enemy strike craft, missiles, and space debris. It has been found that setting a cloud in the face of enemy fire can scatter, and filter it out, however when doing that it does the same to our weapons as well." Tam said. "Typically that tactic is used when defending a planet or a damaged ship."
"I see." Drei said, "First off, you should be using Carbon or Boron rather than a silicon based projectile. The higher vaporization point per energy makes these materials a superior choice. Also, for the same amount of mass, it is generally better to use a solid material for protection in the form of a whipple shield. Pre-scattered sand might do some damage to a missile but it would be ineffective against a laser."
"Experimentation with Carbon is being conducted for the Sand Cannons. As far as a whipple shield. A device was invented, just never utilized. Too specialized." Hujin said calmly.
"There are over 30 types of that shield being used to protect this starship. They are highly effective against extreme velocity impacts and size factors are not an issue with space based hardware." Drei explained, "Now, would you like to try again?"
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