Fred
Retired Staff
MISSION 5
AMAYA'S GATE
Miharu left orbit of Yamatai only a couple of days after arriving. The ship had barely replenished its supplies, exchanged a few heads for newer ones and then she left without any progress reports and without notice; leaving some wondering about the sudden departure.
Questions were asked, and the only answers to be found were how the ship had made a brief stop at the end of the Nepleslian homeworld's star system to have the border patrols retrieve Heram Wazu. Nearly as soon as the Nepleslian shuttle had undocked that Miharu had spun around and hurtled away out of Nepleslian space.
From there, few knew of the ship's whereabouts. The NDI outpost of Ether was isolated Nerimian territory so when the vessel had eased into a spacedock, few would even learn that the ship had visited until days later. Princess Kotori had approached the officials there with an appeal for aid for an important long range Black Ops strike that she needed to keep very quiet due to fears that part of Yamatai's intelligence operatives had been taken over by Mishhuvurthyar parasites.
The Nerimians were quickly won over by her plight - they after all had pledged that they would be willing to assist the Star Army of Yamatai in their fight against the Mishhuvurthyar. Resources and time to refit their vessel in a spacedock was something they could provide. A Super Phalanx Construction pad was also a pittance. But at the demand of 32 drone fightercraft - a mix of Tempest and Urikos - they balked.
They could spare 12 Uriko bombers that they would have retrofitted to network compatibly with Yamataian technology by the time Miharu left, but they were unwilling to give any Tempests, or provide more fighters than Miharu's crew could effectively man. The misdeed of SAINT prior to the International Relations Conference were not forgotten and while they did not mean to say that the Ketsurui Princess was untrustworthy, they also made a point of saying that whatever she was going to do... they did not want it traced back to them.
The next couple of days were spent with Tom's technician staff working hard to deliver on the promises the Chief Engineer had made.
The Port Multifunction bay was lined up with twenty-four more M10 'Daisy' power armors with their planetary armament loadout and capacitor batteries for their power supply. The other armors in Hoshi's bays also had their configuration changed to function well either in the vicinity of the Blue Rift's unstable space limitations - or beyond the Gate in the space-time frozen null-aether dimensional pocket where the Second Draconian Fleet was trapped like an insect frozen in amber.
Of particular mention were the Mindy II power armors. Thanks to Miyoko's findings, their forearm weapons and aether generators were adapted to grant near optimal operations despite the adversarial environment the Blue Rift's vicinity offered.
Miharu's hull armor was disassembled, her innards opened to space. There Tom's people worked their magic, not only restoring the ship's propulsion systems, shielding and weaponry, but also adapting them to unstable space operation - again thanks to the information Miyoko had obtained from the Bowhordia datacore.
Most of the adaptations were actually suboptimal in normal space, but once Miharu would enter the Blue Rift Expanse, it was hoped that the advantages she would have from it would perhaps give the crew an extra edge in winning against what still looked like very stiff odds.
It was with lingering foreboding that the escape pods were removed in order to replace them with six palladium cold fusion reactors, four on Miharu's main hull and two on Hoshi.
Finally, the hull was closed up again, this time with the embedded systems required to have Asamoya's energized hull armor functional; another edge for them for when things would turn ugly.
With the repairs complete and 12 modified Uriko drone bombers in tow, Miharu left Ether and then arrowed through space to reach the Blue Rift Expanse. Once it had reached the edge of the expanse, the vessel was forced to go to lower super-luminal speeds in order to negociate safely through the occasional anomalies ad the gravitational eddies the region in spatial flux offered, until they finally found sign's of Amaya's Gate.
Taisa Kotori Ketsurui had the vessel stop shy of the area. Through passive instruments, they could confirm the presence of the gate at extreme range, along with ten other ships: five Nozomi-class scouts that appeared on patrol and five other vessels whom were more closely guarding the Gate itself; Amaya's squadron which included the cruiser Dominion, 2 Vampire-class vessels and 2 Xianthrafruglu-type Mishhuvurthyar gunships.
With the goal in sight, Taisa Kotori gave the order for Miharu to go silent for the moment, deciding to evaluate the situation and prepare to attack the Gate early on the next day.
That day, is today.
AMAYA'S GATE
Miharu left orbit of Yamatai only a couple of days after arriving. The ship had barely replenished its supplies, exchanged a few heads for newer ones and then she left without any progress reports and without notice; leaving some wondering about the sudden departure.
Questions were asked, and the only answers to be found were how the ship had made a brief stop at the end of the Nepleslian homeworld's star system to have the border patrols retrieve Heram Wazu. Nearly as soon as the Nepleslian shuttle had undocked that Miharu had spun around and hurtled away out of Nepleslian space.
From there, few knew of the ship's whereabouts. The NDI outpost of Ether was isolated Nerimian territory so when the vessel had eased into a spacedock, few would even learn that the ship had visited until days later. Princess Kotori had approached the officials there with an appeal for aid for an important long range Black Ops strike that she needed to keep very quiet due to fears that part of Yamatai's intelligence operatives had been taken over by Mishhuvurthyar parasites.
The Nerimians were quickly won over by her plight - they after all had pledged that they would be willing to assist the Star Army of Yamatai in their fight against the Mishhuvurthyar. Resources and time to refit their vessel in a spacedock was something they could provide. A Super Phalanx Construction pad was also a pittance. But at the demand of 32 drone fightercraft - a mix of Tempest and Urikos - they balked.
They could spare 12 Uriko bombers that they would have retrofitted to network compatibly with Yamataian technology by the time Miharu left, but they were unwilling to give any Tempests, or provide more fighters than Miharu's crew could effectively man. The misdeed of SAINT prior to the International Relations Conference were not forgotten and while they did not mean to say that the Ketsurui Princess was untrustworthy, they also made a point of saying that whatever she was going to do... they did not want it traced back to them.
The next couple of days were spent with Tom's technician staff working hard to deliver on the promises the Chief Engineer had made.
The Port Multifunction bay was lined up with twenty-four more M10 'Daisy' power armors with their planetary armament loadout and capacitor batteries for their power supply. The other armors in Hoshi's bays also had their configuration changed to function well either in the vicinity of the Blue Rift's unstable space limitations - or beyond the Gate in the space-time frozen null-aether dimensional pocket where the Second Draconian Fleet was trapped like an insect frozen in amber.
Of particular mention were the Mindy II power armors. Thanks to Miyoko's findings, their forearm weapons and aether generators were adapted to grant near optimal operations despite the adversarial environment the Blue Rift's vicinity offered.
Miharu's hull armor was disassembled, her innards opened to space. There Tom's people worked their magic, not only restoring the ship's propulsion systems, shielding and weaponry, but also adapting them to unstable space operation - again thanks to the information Miyoko had obtained from the Bowhordia datacore.
Most of the adaptations were actually suboptimal in normal space, but once Miharu would enter the Blue Rift Expanse, it was hoped that the advantages she would have from it would perhaps give the crew an extra edge in winning against what still looked like very stiff odds.
It was with lingering foreboding that the escape pods were removed in order to replace them with six palladium cold fusion reactors, four on Miharu's main hull and two on Hoshi.
Finally, the hull was closed up again, this time with the embedded systems required to have Asamoya's energized hull armor functional; another edge for them for when things would turn ugly.
With the repairs complete and 12 modified Uriko drone bombers in tow, Miharu left Ether and then arrowed through space to reach the Blue Rift Expanse. Once it had reached the edge of the expanse, the vessel was forced to go to lower super-luminal speeds in order to negociate safely through the occasional anomalies ad the gravitational eddies the region in spatial flux offered, until they finally found sign's of Amaya's Gate.
Taisa Kotori Ketsurui had the vessel stop shy of the area. Through passive instruments, they could confirm the presence of the gate at extreme range, along with ten other ships: five Nozomi-class scouts that appeared on patrol and five other vessels whom were more closely guarding the Gate itself; Amaya's squadron which included the cruiser Dominion, 2 Vampire-class vessels and 2 Xianthrafruglu-type Mishhuvurthyar gunships.
With the goal in sight, Taisa Kotori gave the order for Miharu to go silent for the moment, deciding to evaluate the situation and prepare to attack the Gate early on the next day.
That day, is today.
