Magnus
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Murf was quiet. The cold, rocky system had not seen heavy activity for several years. But the scars of war were still evident along its fringes. Scars that might never heal.
The boundaries of realspace and hyperspace ruptured suddenly. Long talon shaped ships pierced the inky blackness and reached into the system. As the large ships reached in, contingents of black wing-shaped fighters began to swarm towards the few outposts on Murf. Close behind the fighters followed the larger shapes of bombers. Slowly from another corner of the system, another ship disgorged from a hyperspace fissure. The arthropodic shape shifted, as its spires were the last things to leave the fissure. As it was expelled, anti-FTL fields were deployed along with arrays of disruptive and jamming signals. Nothing was leaving the killing field.
The fighters threw themselves headlong through the think asteroid belts of Murf. Ignoring those that collided with the space debris and were destroyed, their targets were fast approaching and they would not hesitate for a moment.
The fighters poured a hailstorm of fire at the defenseless mining colonies. Small groups of lifeboats and freighters attempted to flee the onslaught but were massacred before they could even escape Murf’s asteroid belt. While the fighters mercilessly attacked anything moving, the bombers to the moved with a purpose. Weaving through the high traffic combat zone they wound their way around to all the major colonies.
Just outside the asteroid belt, the ship that had full exited from hyperspace was engaging the squadron of Irim gunships. The large ship poured fire on the much smaller ships and was giving their shields a thrashing. When the invading ship turned as it if was moving in retreat, the Irims pursued. Their thoughts of victory vanished as the invader sprung its trap. An intense beam of light erupted from the now aligned main weapon of the invader. Three of the Irims were cleaved in half instantly and exploded in a violent display of light. The remaining ships were now struggling to escape from the trap, but were being bracketed on all sides by aether missiles and the invader's main cannon.
At this moment the majority of the bombers had reached their targets. With a single massive salvo, they deployed their anti-installation torpedoes. The mining colonies were vaporized in seconds upon impact. Hundreds died inside the burning installations. The marauding fighters continuously cut down more of the fleeing colonists.
Across the star system, fighter and bomber packs hunted and destroyed the isolated and undefended mining stations. Every freighter and tug in the system was viciously surrounded and picked apart by various high potency weapons. Within minutes the system was devoid of colonial life. The last of the Irim defense squadron valiantly tried to ram the invading ship. But the main cannon tore the much smaller ship in two and brushed aside any of its debris.
With this newfound silence the invaders quickly retreated back to the hyperspace fissures that they had come from. Any damaged fighters and bombers were quickly destroyed entirely but their retreating comrades. With the last of the small craft crossing the threshold, the single ship in the system itself opened a hole before in and left the system behind.
As a final act of abuse to the ruins of the Murf system, the ships that had been holding the fissures open let loose with a massive barrage of aether torpedoes. As the torpedoes exited the fissures the holes collapsed and closed the pathway between the two worlds. The torpedo impacts pulverized the ruins of the Murf system just as one last insult.
And again the scars of Murf were reopened.
The boundaries of realspace and hyperspace ruptured suddenly. Long talon shaped ships pierced the inky blackness and reached into the system. As the large ships reached in, contingents of black wing-shaped fighters began to swarm towards the few outposts on Murf. Close behind the fighters followed the larger shapes of bombers. Slowly from another corner of the system, another ship disgorged from a hyperspace fissure. The arthropodic shape shifted, as its spires were the last things to leave the fissure. As it was expelled, anti-FTL fields were deployed along with arrays of disruptive and jamming signals. Nothing was leaving the killing field.
The fighters threw themselves headlong through the think asteroid belts of Murf. Ignoring those that collided with the space debris and were destroyed, their targets were fast approaching and they would not hesitate for a moment.
The fighters poured a hailstorm of fire at the defenseless mining colonies. Small groups of lifeboats and freighters attempted to flee the onslaught but were massacred before they could even escape Murf’s asteroid belt. While the fighters mercilessly attacked anything moving, the bombers to the moved with a purpose. Weaving through the high traffic combat zone they wound their way around to all the major colonies.
Just outside the asteroid belt, the ship that had full exited from hyperspace was engaging the squadron of Irim gunships. The large ship poured fire on the much smaller ships and was giving their shields a thrashing. When the invading ship turned as it if was moving in retreat, the Irims pursued. Their thoughts of victory vanished as the invader sprung its trap. An intense beam of light erupted from the now aligned main weapon of the invader. Three of the Irims were cleaved in half instantly and exploded in a violent display of light. The remaining ships were now struggling to escape from the trap, but were being bracketed on all sides by aether missiles and the invader's main cannon.
At this moment the majority of the bombers had reached their targets. With a single massive salvo, they deployed their anti-installation torpedoes. The mining colonies were vaporized in seconds upon impact. Hundreds died inside the burning installations. The marauding fighters continuously cut down more of the fleeing colonists.
Across the star system, fighter and bomber packs hunted and destroyed the isolated and undefended mining stations. Every freighter and tug in the system was viciously surrounded and picked apart by various high potency weapons. Within minutes the system was devoid of colonial life. The last of the Irim defense squadron valiantly tried to ram the invading ship. But the main cannon tore the much smaller ship in two and brushed aside any of its debris.
With this newfound silence the invaders quickly retreated back to the hyperspace fissures that they had come from. Any damaged fighters and bombers were quickly destroyed entirely but their retreating comrades. With the last of the small craft crossing the threshold, the single ship in the system itself opened a hole before in and left the system behind.
As a final act of abuse to the ruins of the Murf system, the ships that had been holding the fissures open let loose with a massive barrage of aether torpedoes. As the torpedoes exited the fissures the holes collapsed and closed the pathway between the two worlds. The torpedo impacts pulverized the ruins of the Murf system just as one last insult.
And again the scars of Murf were reopened.