- RP Date
- 1日 3月 YE 35
- RP Location
- YSS Kikyō
Kikyō Sector
YSS Kikyō
1日 3月 YE 35
0800 Hours
There was a lack of stillness on the YSS Kikyō as Taiyou Hoshi was in the Captain's suite, kneeling at a diminutive and flowering sakura tree. She had been given it one year ago, some short time after she herself had first lost her life. The Plumeria-class medium gunship's MEGAMI reiterated the full readiness condition throughout the ship, even in Hoshi's private quarters and then spoke to her in a quiet, subdued voice.
"The captain's place is on the bridge," the artificial intelligence told the lithe Nekovalkyrja as Hoshi moved to pick up a pair of bonsai cutting scissors. Her bubblegum-colored cheeks slacked as her blue brows furrowed. Her fingertips curled and uncurled around the scissors and then she stood while she zipped her Type 21 bodysuit up fully over her flat pink chest. She pulled her hair up and out from behind her back and draped it over her shoulder so that the white tips touched at her rank pink that deemed her a Shosa.
Stepping out of the captain's suite and onto the bridge, Hoshi took the command chair from her XO, who stood and put his hands curtly behind his back.
"Report," the captain spoke out.
Her XO was quick to say, "We're well within striking range and their sensors are still blind to us."
"Condition one," Hoshi said and put her hands in her lap.
The MEGAMI spoke out, "Maximum readiness condition one. All weapons online. CFS on shields. Blast shutters deployed."
To the pilot, Hoshi said, "Take us out of the event horizon, maximum speed. Sublight engines on standby, combined field system at maximum."
"The further from this singularity, the better," the pilot let the bridge know as she turned from her navigational side of her console to the side of it suited for flying them out of the black hole's rim.
"This black hole has hidden us from them this long, I am personally thankful to it for our continued survival," Hoshi looked to the sensors' readouts on her console, seeing that the pilot was doing their job, despite it being a difficult one. "For anything slower than the speed of light, escaping an event horizon is impossible. For a Yamataian starship, nothing is impossible."
"We're breaking free," the pilot reported. "At maximum output. Under normal circumstances we would be going just under than two and a half light years. Right now we're moving, but barely."
"Hold steady, just ten more seconds by my calculations. MEGAMI?" Hoshi asked of the ship's AI. She turned to her XO, then spoke in a low voice, "Howards, see to it the away team wipes them clean."
There was something of a hopeful smile on the XO's face as he bowed to his captain and left the bridge.
"A little less than ten, now. Six," MEGAMI replied then began counting down after Hoshi gave a terse nod. "Five, four, three, two..." there seemed to be a pause in the MEGAMI's voice and she went on, but not with the final number. "We're are free of the event horizon."
"FTL engines cut, back to sublight power output," Hoshi called. "Weapons, select targets and fire on a second sweep. Pilot, I want our main weapon array at your fingertips. Full spread. Avoid the station we're taking." The captain raised her blue diamond-like eyes up to look at the view screen that showed the enemies that they had been lurking in wait for.
The enemy orbital installation was being moved from nearby core Yamatai and to a defensible location in the Western portion of the Kikyō Sector when it had been laid to siege. Passing the black hole cluster of this region had given the Empire's opponents the belief of security from Yamataian forces.
That belief was being reconsidered now as the first shot of the Plumeria's full spread of aetheric shock array blew to nonexistence those within a thirty degree cone. The pink conical glow from the nose of the Plumeria splayed right before the ship began banking hard towards starboard. She threw herself towards the enemy's other half dozen ships, this time, she was shooting with positron accelerator cannons at very nearly light speeds. When close enough, heavy anti-starship gun turrets began blazing towards the enemy ships as the YSS Kikyō passed by one more time, this time in the wake of her destruction as a few enemy shots zipped through tar black space, unable to hit the fast-moving YSS Kikyō.
"Four enemy stealth corvettes have been completely destroyed, already. Two more have been heavily crippled by our cannons and turrets," the MEGAMI informed the bridge.
Hoshi turned to the pilot when the aetheric shock array had charged and was once more ready to shoot, "Fire at rapid pulse as often as possible. Every two seconds I want to see one of their ships blown apart!" As she saw the fifth ship to be completely downed, she nodded, "Like that! Bring her about once you've—Exactly!" Hoshi exclaimed as she saw the sixth ship cascade outward in an aetheric plume of demise. "Keep going... Weapons!"
"Hai, Shosa?" the operator asked, then there came a small tremor throughout the ship as they were finally and for the first time in the engagement, hit.
"Hold strong!" Hoshi shouted. She looked from her readings to the visual displays and spoke again, "Heavy quad cannons and torps aimed at the flagship of their little task force, got it?" On the view screen nearest the weapons operator a heavy cruiser was marked out for them.
The pilot loosened one more rapid pulse that shot out its cherry blossom pink aether from the Plumeria and struck a series of gunships that had been traveling in a row.
"Sitting ducks," Hoshi murmured as she saw how the bright plasma was pulled from the aether, thanks to the ship's nose that blew through the first ship and struck the second, then third and fourth. The aether continued streaking through space, ready to continue its reign of terror further on for another few hundred kilometers.
The ship was again struck while she turned about, but was now ready and positioned for the cruiser to be taken down.
"Pilot," Hoshi said, "bring us nearer the flagship and to their damaged portside."
The weapons operator followed Hoshi's instruction, but it wasn't yet enough until they had closed the gap between the two ships. Once within range of heavy striking power, the YSS Kikyō's power was discharged once more. Within the first pass, the flagship was crippled, then its chassis snapped and it was soon in many pieces, mainly composed of two hulking segments of what was once a formidable starship.
A distant series of shots rang out from nearby ships and Hoshi's blue brows knit together as she waited to feel the shock of them against strong shields and thick Zesuaium hulls, but no shuddering of the ship, small or large, came.
"Report," she said to her bridge.
"We were barely touched," the systems and safety monitor spoke up. "No hull breeches, shields are at 70%."
"How is their station?" Hoshi asked, looking now at the orbital installation.
"Unscathed, totally. No damage," the monitor replied.
"There are a few scrambling ships left," Hoshi said to her crew on the bridge while going over sensor readings. She looked to her communications operator portside and said, "Tell the XO it is time for him to act."
"Right away, Shosa," replied the brunette at the station next to Hoshi, who looked to the door forward of the bridge before her sky blue eyelashes closed.
The thought of the blooming sakura tree behind the closed doors called out to her. She blinked twice while she heard the warbled speech of the communications operator as they used comms to talk to her XO as if it was from within a fishbowl and the captain's eyes shut once more. Her hand found its place on her pink forehead and she moved aside her sky blue bangs to rub at her temples. Her hands fell and rested on the arm of her command chair while she surveyed the sensors through her SPINE interface, still serene-looking with her pink lids closed.
"Belay my order," Hoshi said as she looked back up a few moments' of thought later.
YSS Kikyō
1日 3月 YE 35
0800 Hours
There was a lack of stillness on the YSS Kikyō as Taiyou Hoshi was in the Captain's suite, kneeling at a diminutive and flowering sakura tree. She had been given it one year ago, some short time after she herself had first lost her life. The Plumeria-class medium gunship's MEGAMI reiterated the full readiness condition throughout the ship, even in Hoshi's private quarters and then spoke to her in a quiet, subdued voice.
"The captain's place is on the bridge," the artificial intelligence told the lithe Nekovalkyrja as Hoshi moved to pick up a pair of bonsai cutting scissors. Her bubblegum-colored cheeks slacked as her blue brows furrowed. Her fingertips curled and uncurled around the scissors and then she stood while she zipped her Type 21 bodysuit up fully over her flat pink chest. She pulled her hair up and out from behind her back and draped it over her shoulder so that the white tips touched at her rank pink that deemed her a Shosa.
Stepping out of the captain's suite and onto the bridge, Hoshi took the command chair from her XO, who stood and put his hands curtly behind his back.
"Report," the captain spoke out.
Her XO was quick to say, "We're well within striking range and their sensors are still blind to us."
"Condition one," Hoshi said and put her hands in her lap.
The MEGAMI spoke out, "Maximum readiness condition one. All weapons online. CFS on shields. Blast shutters deployed."
To the pilot, Hoshi said, "Take us out of the event horizon, maximum speed. Sublight engines on standby, combined field system at maximum."
"The further from this singularity, the better," the pilot let the bridge know as she turned from her navigational side of her console to the side of it suited for flying them out of the black hole's rim.
"This black hole has hidden us from them this long, I am personally thankful to it for our continued survival," Hoshi looked to the sensors' readouts on her console, seeing that the pilot was doing their job, despite it being a difficult one. "For anything slower than the speed of light, escaping an event horizon is impossible. For a Yamataian starship, nothing is impossible."
"We're breaking free," the pilot reported. "At maximum output. Under normal circumstances we would be going just under than two and a half light years. Right now we're moving, but barely."
"Hold steady, just ten more seconds by my calculations. MEGAMI?" Hoshi asked of the ship's AI. She turned to her XO, then spoke in a low voice, "Howards, see to it the away team wipes them clean."
There was something of a hopeful smile on the XO's face as he bowed to his captain and left the bridge.
"A little less than ten, now. Six," MEGAMI replied then began counting down after Hoshi gave a terse nod. "Five, four, three, two..." there seemed to be a pause in the MEGAMI's voice and she went on, but not with the final number. "We're are free of the event horizon."
"FTL engines cut, back to sublight power output," Hoshi called. "Weapons, select targets and fire on a second sweep. Pilot, I want our main weapon array at your fingertips. Full spread. Avoid the station we're taking." The captain raised her blue diamond-like eyes up to look at the view screen that showed the enemies that they had been lurking in wait for.
The enemy orbital installation was being moved from nearby core Yamatai and to a defensible location in the Western portion of the Kikyō Sector when it had been laid to siege. Passing the black hole cluster of this region had given the Empire's opponents the belief of security from Yamataian forces.
That belief was being reconsidered now as the first shot of the Plumeria's full spread of aetheric shock array blew to nonexistence those within a thirty degree cone. The pink conical glow from the nose of the Plumeria splayed right before the ship began banking hard towards starboard. She threw herself towards the enemy's other half dozen ships, this time, she was shooting with positron accelerator cannons at very nearly light speeds. When close enough, heavy anti-starship gun turrets began blazing towards the enemy ships as the YSS Kikyō passed by one more time, this time in the wake of her destruction as a few enemy shots zipped through tar black space, unable to hit the fast-moving YSS Kikyō.
"Four enemy stealth corvettes have been completely destroyed, already. Two more have been heavily crippled by our cannons and turrets," the MEGAMI informed the bridge.
Hoshi turned to the pilot when the aetheric shock array had charged and was once more ready to shoot, "Fire at rapid pulse as often as possible. Every two seconds I want to see one of their ships blown apart!" As she saw the fifth ship to be completely downed, she nodded, "Like that! Bring her about once you've—Exactly!" Hoshi exclaimed as she saw the sixth ship cascade outward in an aetheric plume of demise. "Keep going... Weapons!"
"Hai, Shosa?" the operator asked, then there came a small tremor throughout the ship as they were finally and for the first time in the engagement, hit.
"Hold strong!" Hoshi shouted. She looked from her readings to the visual displays and spoke again, "Heavy quad cannons and torps aimed at the flagship of their little task force, got it?" On the view screen nearest the weapons operator a heavy cruiser was marked out for them.
The pilot loosened one more rapid pulse that shot out its cherry blossom pink aether from the Plumeria and struck a series of gunships that had been traveling in a row.
"Sitting ducks," Hoshi murmured as she saw how the bright plasma was pulled from the aether, thanks to the ship's nose that blew through the first ship and struck the second, then third and fourth. The aether continued streaking through space, ready to continue its reign of terror further on for another few hundred kilometers.
The ship was again struck while she turned about, but was now ready and positioned for the cruiser to be taken down.
"Pilot," Hoshi said, "bring us nearer the flagship and to their damaged portside."
The weapons operator followed Hoshi's instruction, but it wasn't yet enough until they had closed the gap between the two ships. Once within range of heavy striking power, the YSS Kikyō's power was discharged once more. Within the first pass, the flagship was crippled, then its chassis snapped and it was soon in many pieces, mainly composed of two hulking segments of what was once a formidable starship.
A distant series of shots rang out from nearby ships and Hoshi's blue brows knit together as she waited to feel the shock of them against strong shields and thick Zesuaium hulls, but no shuddering of the ship, small or large, came.
"Report," she said to her bridge.
"We were barely touched," the systems and safety monitor spoke up. "No hull breeches, shields are at 70%."
"How is their station?" Hoshi asked, looking now at the orbital installation.
"Unscathed, totally. No damage," the monitor replied.
"There are a few scrambling ships left," Hoshi said to her crew on the bridge while going over sensor readings. She looked to her communications operator portside and said, "Tell the XO it is time for him to act."
"Right away, Shosa," replied the brunette at the station next to Hoshi, who looked to the door forward of the bridge before her sky blue eyelashes closed.
The thought of the blooming sakura tree behind the closed doors called out to her. She blinked twice while she heard the warbled speech of the communications operator as they used comms to talk to her XO as if it was from within a fishbowl and the captain's eyes shut once more. Her hand found its place on her pink forehead and she moved aside her sky blue bangs to rub at her temples. Her hands fell and rested on the arm of her command chair while she surveyed the sensors through her SPINE interface, still serene-looking with her pink lids closed.
"Belay my order," Hoshi said as she looked back up a few moments' of thought later.