The Confederation ships in the system of Gadzair cloak, and shoot off toward the Coalition ships to observe.
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Huron
A fleet of 2 Defenders and 10 Carriers jump into the system of Huron. They start attacking all ships in the system when the carriers unloaded. Hundreds of fighters zoom around, attacking all ships in sight. When the system was clear, the fighters went into the atmosphere and started blasting ground batteries. By the time that was done, the defence fleet was out and attacking the fighters that stayed up to protect the carriers and defenders. All fighters pulled up and the battle began.
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------Omm System------
The Coalition has the advantage of suprise, however the advantage is temporary. It is obvious that Pirate pilots are much more skilled, as numerus dogfights break out. Soon, reinforcements from surrounding systems jump in, with a dreadnought en-route.
MEssage to Coalition ships
We will never surrender. It is you that should give up.
End
Fighters swarm over the coalition fleet, avoiding a lot of the weapons fire. Many Coalition ships are simply overwhelmed as even more reinforcements jump in.
The Pirate ships are disabling and attempting to capture rather than destroy anything bigger than a heavy fighter. Even as the battle rages coalition ships are disabled and turn pirate.

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Redchigh jumps into the system in an azdara, and he finds the coalition ship. He tells them to land, and he lands at the only working port on the planet below.

Message to: Benden
From: Azdgari
The last message was not meant for you. It was meant for the civilians and personnel in the system working for you. We will not rest until you are locked up or dead. We mean that. Give up and we'll give you more comfortable quarters, or let you choose your sentence. Otherwise, you will die, along with your crew and guards.
End

Message to: Mamajama
From: Azdgari Fleet
(Highest encryption)
Our fleets are becoming weary. Can our fleet hide out in your system while we escape? you will be compensated and will earn our trust...
End

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"I dont follow the crowd.. I stand and make fun of all the people walking in a straight line." ~A. Rickman
"....This is only what I think. We can't in a million years guess what goes on in the snarling, churning bowels of Red's head."
~ESPilot

Paul listened to RED's reply, and gave the order for Miranu ships to return fire once again. "All ships, form up on your command cruisers. Formation Tetra 115. Disable those bastards, and when you do, move on to the next one. Call for help if you need it, and pull out when your capacitors need charging," he ordered. Next, he ordered the main computer to get him a collision course for the bridge of the Azdgari Command ship. Just in case.

There was not much left to say or do. All that there was left to do was fight. Shields at 90%, weapons at full. The remaining 10 CW's from the Command Wing formed up in a ovoid, keels to the inside. Several more such groups were forming up behind them. Fighter groups had been omitted from this order, and they were buzzing around between the groups, chasing down stray Azdara's. Soon, the formations moved toward the nearest group of enemy warships, firing with Lysew Cannons set on attract. The Azdgari ships were drawn closer, making them easier to hit but also making the Miranu ships easier to hit.

The battle was still a toss-up, but it was smaller scale. There were many fewer ships remaining than what each fleet had started with.
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"Thay what?" Saraine yelled.
"They cloaked, sir." his XO replied.
"It was a rehitorical question, forget it. It's time to teach these Confederacy people some manners. They can't just come in here and waltz all over our space without permission "
Every Dark Angel system had a fw drifiting hulks; old ore haulers mainly, kept filled with raw hyperfuel to act as large bombs to blockade the jump points with.
A short message to Rasael on Xarnes and Raven on Tollb ensured that the old ore haulers, filled with raw hyperfuel, were moved to blockade the jump points. Should the Confederacy ships jump in, they would recive a nasty shock.

(broadband message to: Confederacy ships)
(broadbamd message fr: Saraine)
(broadband message re: No Tresspassing)
You have yet to explain your presence here; incedentary devices have been set up to blockade the jump points into Azdgari and Tollb, as well as all jump points in Gadzair bar the hyperlink to the Mark system. You will use that link to exit Dark Angel space immediately; and do not return without prior arrangement!
Ciao,
-Saraine

(message to: Coalition ships)
(message fr: Saraine)
(message re: Your ships)
We have colonies in Tollb, Azdgari and Gadzair. It also appears there's a fourth reason for you to have warships: you'll notice we've moved old freighters to blockade the jump points. This is due to a fleet of five Confederacy Carriers and a Confederacy Defender intruding on our space; they are currently in the Gadzair system, and only have one hyperlink open, the one to Mark. We'll inform you should the situation change.
Ciao,
-Saraine

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Quote

Originally posted by -REDCHIGH-:
**Message to: Mamajama
From: Azdgari
We notice you fighting the miranu alone (Without your fleet), and wonder why.
We are about to give you a reason.
In return for cutting all ties with the miranu, we will help support your planet in times of need. Not to mention giving you access to all but the highest security military technology. We will ship food to end the drought we've heard about on your homeworld. We will relocate older citizens to more peaceful planets within our space. Look at the size of miranu and azdgari space. There is no way for the miranu to win this war, even with coalition help the casualties will be in the billions. We are not bloodthirsty. You notice, we are only disabling miranu vessels. We are going to take the civilians to our space and give them comfortable lives until benden is dead, then we will give them back their space. Reply si'l vous plait.
End

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Poch, Zimla System

Mamajama stared at Admiral Redchigh’s proposal. Drought relief. Alliance with a galactic power. New trade markets. Hmmmm. And a later message asked to use the Zimla system as a hideout from the war with the Miranu.

I can’t speak for the Planetary Council on Poch, or even for the House for Jama, anymore. I left my son, Jo Jama, in charge, so that my family wouldn’t be associated with my "treachery." But the House of Jama is the largest of the ruling Houses, and someone would have to present the Adzgari proposal. Should be easy to persuade Jo ..

"Mama, you did what??!!!!"

"Yes, yes, Jo, I p______d off Admiral Benden, our largest client and patron, because of something that happened thirty years ago. If you really want to know why, it’s a long story but right now, we have to deal with reality. Our planet is in a drought, and the Azdgari are offering relief. Benden made a mistake 30 years ago, and I made a mistake in following him. I found that planetary genocide is not only not good business, because it makes potential trading partners distrust you, it also annihilates those potential trading partners. I killed off billions of potential clients and customers when I blew up Veltes. That’s just not good business."

Jo Jama buried his handsome head in his hands. "And you blew up Benden’s precious antimatter, and that is good business? Mama, mama, mama. What are we going to do with you.?"

Mamajama smiled. When her oldest son started to condescend to her, she knew she had him where she wanted him. He would present the Adzgari proposal to the Poch Planetary Council. They would probably have the same objections, but eventually come around to accept their changed reality. At least, she hoped so.

After a pause, she said, "Jo, here’s another thing to consider. You know that we have installed the slug repeller fields on our ships? Well, they don’t seem to be 100% effective. Eventually, the larger slugs learn to compensate for the field, and they seem to be intelligent enough to locate the source of the electrical current and shut it off. We’re going to have to do better if we want to stay slug-free. I’m giving a skilled salvage operator orders to capture a live baby slug or two, feed it Grivan brains, and see if we can figure out any more about what makes them tick. The operation will be conducted in an isolated old freighter, and the scientists will work by remote robot controls where possible. Slugs have been sighted in Nemnel, one jump away. OK with you if a freighter tries to capture a slug there?"

After Jo gave his consent, MJ added, " And there is one more thing, maybe the most important thing. Some unknown enemy, possibly related to the pesky "peaceful" Attar, has been blowing up stations and devastating planets. We’ve read reports from DSN2131, and now Helios. So far, whoever it is has just attacked renegade and independent worlds on the rim of the known Galaxy; however, we can’t assume that they aren’t working their way inward. These attackers are powerful; We may need to ally with the Adzgari simply because they have a huge fleet of ships. Be practical, Jo; think with your wallet like a good Miranu.

Jo gave his mother a knowing look. "You aren’t sharing any of this slug research with your new Adzgari allies, are you?"

Mamajama smirked. "Of course not. We have to keep something in reserve. You can be sure that Admiral Redchigh hasn’t told us all of his plans, either."

Jo clicked through some screens until he found the report from Mo Jama in Zanat.

"Mo has dropped off all of the refugees on Kitrak, as you had requested. All of the surviving Jama fleet is now in position in Zanat, awaiting action by the Adzgari. Do you have orders for them?"

"I think we’ll have to see what our Planetary Council has to say about an alliance with the Adzgari."

Later, Mamajama leaned over her little grandson's crib and cooed like a good grandma. She had attached a loop of wire to the tiny toy Azdara she had rescued from the devastation of Veltes. She suspended it above the infant's crib as a mobile.

"Better get used to these, sweetie. You may be seeing more of them."

<TRANSMISSION>
TO: Admiral Redchigh of the Adzgari
FROM: Mamajama
RE: Possible alliance, hideout

Admiral,
You may not be aware that I am only one member of a ruling house on Poch. I am inclined to favor it, although we both would have to overcome the long and bloody history between our peoples. My son will present your proposal to the Council, and we must await that decision. Until then, I prefer that you not retreat to the Zimla system. However, the nearby system, Nemnel, is uninhabited....

<END TRANSMISSION>

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Live slug research: 3 posts

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Omm
seemingly endless Coalition reinforcments jump in in groups of 10 Warcruisers and 20 sharks every 15 min. totaly over whelming the Renegade fleet totaly decimateing 1/2 of it and still going strong. there were now 60 warcruisers + fighters and countless sharks.

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R&D;

Dreadnought Construction
Total: 10, ETC: 5 posts

Ionic Particle Beam turreted
ETC: 1 posts

Cenurion Force Engine: increases speed of Dreadnought and Warcruiser by 100
ETC: 8 posts

Turreted Spur Missle Launcher fited on all vessels that use Spur Missles
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Insanity has its advantages

MOD: The rules for posting is that you have to wait for at least one person to make an action (meaning that they have to do something besides sending a message).

ATTENTION ALL: I have now put up a technology list for the Acarra Empire at the (url="http://"http://www.carnotaurhq.com/webstories/wod/tech_info.html")WoD Technology Page(/url). Please visit it and check it out. And just as a reminder; everybody only knows of the Acarra as their covername; the 'Attar'. Nobody also knows about their technology; the only reason I put it up was to make sure everybody could make accurate battle-posts.

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Huron System

"To conquer, enemies must weaken. To weaken enemies, the balance must be maintained. To maintain balance, strife must exist," Second General Thrade said to himself. "Begin the assault."

At that exact moment, an Acarra warfleet of 29 warships and 32 fighters jumped in. There was the huge Command Ship Dagon , which was staying on the outskirts of the system, not wanting to engage the enemy fleet despite its vastly superior arsenal.

The Shrikes and Wraiths screeched in first, tearing through enemy fighter wings with their devastating energy lances. Easily outmaneuvering them all, the fighters caused massive amounts of havoc as the bulk of the fleet moved in to engage.

Psionic energy pulses tore through armor and shielding, energy lances cut enemy vessels in half, and all the while, any ship that got close to the command ship was incinerated in seconds by its massive arsenal. Though the Confederate fleet outnumbered the Acarra, the Acarra still had much more powerful ships, which gave them the advantage.

The battle was on.

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OOC: If I may say so myself, if I were the Pirates, I would just evacuate all ships from the Huron system and send them to Omm. Let the Confeds deal with the aliens.

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Hrekka System

"What the heck is that-"

BOOM!!!

"Call in reinforcements!! Noooo-"

BOOM!!!

"My god-"

BLAST!!! Dozens of Miranu ships fell as an Acarra warfleet slowly blasted its way through the system, its V-formation unbroken as it torn apart any that opposed it. The Miranu ships in the system scrambled to defend the base, but already they had suffered massive losses....

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Kelmoan System

"Holy sh-"

The Acarra Command Ship Amun Shiva plowed through a Confederate fighter wing, simply crushing the tiny vessels against its huge shield grid. It then stopped, and allowed its escort fleet of 22 warships and 23 fighters to move ahead and engage the Confederate defense fleet which had just been launched.

As the Acarra began to engage the Confederate with the same devastating results, Third General Ravaer, on the Amun Shiva turned and looked at a data pad. "What is it?" his lieutenant asked.

"It's a message from Thrade and Lhevak. Their attacks are going well, and Lythrawn is going to invade Qeird soon." He grinned. "Now we will see if this galaxy can ignore us any longer."

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Nemnel System

The slugs that had been spotted in Nemnel were presumably from the frieghter that was destroyed in Poch. No other slugs had been sighted since except for these, and the Miranu under the command of Mamajama quickly harvested the little creatures and carried them off to their research laboratory. The slugs seemed not to try to get out, and were placed in a special area where scientists could observe them through thick, laser-proof glass (which the slugs did not seem interested in).

Not much was learned about these things originally, and one actually died, and was consumed by the other two slugs that were still alive. Then they began to eat the brains they were fed. And then they continued to eat, and eat, and eat, until finally one of them crawled into a whole brain it had been given, and stayed in there.

Now the scientists just had to wait, and observe the second slug. It was obviously growing in size; when it had first been captured, it was 4 inches long. Now it was a little over a foot, and still a sort of green-ish/yellow color. It was tested against the slug repellers, and the Miranu found that it could indeed change its EM polarity to match the coil, and thus ignore it.

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Coming to the (url="http://"http://www.ambrosiaSW.com/games/ev/chronicles.html")EV Chronicles(/url).

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(This message has been edited by Captain Carnotaur (edited 04-10-2002).)

Paul's battlgroup was just finishing up with disabling a pair of Predators when he received a Mayday call from the Hrekka system that contained a live video feed. In a small portion of the battleroom, he started playing the video feed. He stood there as he watched a Ares CW melt under the fire of several alien warships of an unidentified type. He immediately opened a channel to the Azdgari Commander, and included the video feed.

"Even though I would love to continue this battle with you and settle this personal score that I thought I had evened 30 years ago, events move ahead of us. Aliens of an unidentified type have attacked the Hrekka system, and they seem definately warlike. We think these ships have also been responsible for the destruction of several innocent merchant vessels. They may pose a threat to the whole galaxy, so I suggest until we discover the intentions and aims of these aliens, I suggest we put off this little war of ours. The way these alien warships are tearing through our ships, they may kill me for you. Send a reply if you want to discuss the terms of a temporary truce. If you don't want to investigate this, don't bother with a reply."

The Miranu ships were ordered to keep firing until such time as the Azdgari were ready to discuss a truce.
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"You may not throw things at my dragon!"
"We remove the furry killing things. We think only of removing the furry killing things."-The Skies of Pern, Anne McCaffery

The Renegades were becoming more and more fearful. As they built up the defense fleet and the secret technicians working on the settlement deep in the relocation area. the only one who knew about it were OV's eliets(sp?) and and the workers.

As the defense fleet was nearly finished being constructed the rebelion groups dispersed and went back to their work. The civilians transport ships were ready in all docking bays. All ships were on standby alert. Now, the renegades in Mavs had to wait one more night of wondering. Will an attack come?

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OOC: Capt. Carno i dont control Kelmoan nor am i attacking Huron. that is the Confeds.
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New orders general. take those stations that we dispached befor and move the other 2 to Pax. "yes sir"
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Omm
all coalition ships jump out of the system and return to patrol.
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Azdgari
"we humans are quite numb to such horror as this as we have seen it in our own past but let us continue. in addition to the end of our war we also ask for an alliance........"
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(message to miranu)
(max encryption)
do you require assistance? now is the time as we have time.
~UE Admiral
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Dreadnought Construction
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Ionic Particle Beam turret Completed now fiting cannons and turrets on all vessels
ETC: 3 posts

Cenurion Force Engine: increases speed of Dreadnought and Warcruiser by 100
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Insanity has its advantages

OOC: Vwhups! (yes, vwhups!) Sorry about that UE Admiral; I'll edit my post immediately.

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"Fleet, set course to Nemnel"
Message to: Benden
Truce? Perhaps a temporary ceasefire. The only condition is that you not follow us..
You are allowed to keep any Azdgari ships that are disabled.
End

The Azdgari swing by and pick up several miranu out of the disabled ships before leaving.
And detonating all the un-rescued disabled azdgari vessels by remote as they jump out.

An hour later, they jump into Nemnel.
"What are those things?"
"I don't have a clue. Do they reply to messages?"
"Not in any language we understand."
"Well let's go. The miranu won't follow us."
The azdgari jump out, back to azdgari space.

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"....This is only what I think. We can't in a million years guess what goes on in the snarling, churning bowels of Red's head."
~ESPilot

Huron
"What the heck?!? Cloak!"The flet commander was very mad. 3/4 of his ships were now gone and he was ready to fight back.
"Attack plan 'Mindule'!"All fighters zoomed around to the other side of the Attar fleet and uucloaked, firing missiles and lasers, destroying several Attar fighters. Then the shpis layed a few mines. They cloaked the second the weapons were launched. When the Attar ships turned around to find out what happened, the fighters went to the other side and did the same thing. They kept doing this over and over...

"Whats that huge ship way out there in sector 1038? Defenders and bombers, attack it now!" The bombers got into Carriers and flew with the Defenders to the huge command ship. They were getting very close to it when the bombers flew over it and let go a volly of mines and missiles. A few slow bombers were blown away by laser fire but the rest escaped, cloaked. The two Defenders were right along side it now, and they started attacking it with everything they had. When both Defenders had no shields left, they cloaked and flew away safely. The command ship surrounded by mines that were only meters away. The ship couldn't move without setting off a huge amout of explosions, and if it shot a mine, it would explode and chain react to explode all mines near the command ship. The Defenders waited to see what the ship would do.
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Kelmoan
All ships cloaked and went near the planet at the commanders order. They layed hundreds of mines in the atmosphere and landed. A few Defenders that were on but landed activated thier broudcast cloaks.
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Kelmoan System

"What the heck do they think they're doing?" Third General Ravaer muttered. "All ships, surround the planet immediately."

The Acarra did this immediately, now surrounding the Confeds, leaving them no way of escape. Ravaer then hailed the planet, and at the same time, had every ship target its weapons on the planet.

"Surrender immediately, or you will be destroyed," Ravaer said over the comlink, his reptillian force filled with hate and malice. It could have been a demon speaking for all the Confeds knew...

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MOD: Just as a note, Grundy, your fighters would get pretty much incinerated as soon as they got close to the Command Ship. That thing has a lot of weapons. But, I'll let it go for now, seeing how the Acarra are new and thus it's sometimes hard to get a feel for how strong they are. No harm done.

Also, you'd still have at least 1/2 of your fleet left. Also, UE Admiral, your fleet in Omm would have to pass through Huron or Iothe to leave, and thus you may have stumbled into this little battle.

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Huron System

The Acarra fleet split up, one part heading towards the Command Ship, the other half heading the opposite direction. As the Confederate fighter wing moved into attack, the Acarra suddenly swung around with their own fighters, trapping the Confeds. As the huge Acarran warfleet descended upon them, the lead Confed pilot saw something that made him shiver.

All throughout the system was a familiar sight; the dark scouts flying about the system, observing the battle, and helping to coordinate the attack. Though when they had first been seen, they did not seem evil, but now, they seemed much more dark and menacing, and above all.... evil.

As the fighter wing was torn apart, the second group of ships was nearing the Command Ship, which did a rather odd thing. The crew of the command ship joined their minds into one psionic force, and with a great force, they were able to shove all of the mines a safe distance away from the Command Ship. The Acarra detonated the minds, and the Command Ship was damaged, but only moderately. One of the most powerful vessels in the galaxy was not about to give up very easily.

The Acarra then called in for another fighter wing of 8 Shrikes and 6 Wraiths, who immediately arrived via slipstream, and began to engage the Confeds all over the system, systematically hunting them down and destroying them. Two Wolf Starcruisers, and their escort of seven Enforcer Frigates, plowed through the Confed front line of warships, causing immense damage as the rest of the fleet torn in after them.

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Millennium. Its coming, prepare for it.
Coming to the (url="http://"http://www.ambrosiaSW.com/games/ev/chronicles.html")EV Chronicles(/url).

(This message has been edited by Captain Carnotaur (edited 04-11-2002).)

"The Confederacy vessels have left, sir." Saraine's XO announced.
"Good. Pull the hulks back into holding orbit - after all, the Coalition needs to leave Azdgari sometime!"
"Yes, sir."
Saraine turned back to his desk, and shuffled through the stack of reports to find anything interesting. "Hmmm, Akhanris has finished the Fireblade." he murmured.
"You! XO, whatever your name is! Open me a channel to Xarnes."
"Yes, sir."
Saraine accessed the channel, then began to type.

(message to: Rasael)
(message fr: Saraine)
(message re: Fireblade)
I see that young Akhanris has finished the Fireblade. Congratulate him, he may be an arrogant, egocentric fool, but he is a good shipbuilder. Have the shipyards begin building Fireblades immediately.
Ciao,
-Saraine

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Paul watched as the Azdgari fleet jumped out of the system, detonating their disabled ships as they left. Paul quickly began organizing things. "Detail half of the fleet to begin salvaging our disabled ships out there and any Azdgari ships that did not detonate properly. Have the scientists that were evacuated set up on Mira. Launch a bouy with a message explaining what happened here to passing ships. Order the ships fighting in the Hrekka system to keep the alien forces occupied long enough to let as many freightors filled with evacuees escape to New Mira. Order the rest of the fleet to the shipyards at Mira for repairs. We will follow to Mira."

The ships heading to Mira left the system a few minutes later. The warships in the Hrekka system fought a valiant battle, allowing more than 1/3 of the population to escape on freightors. There was no fleet within a day of Hrekka that was even capable of thinking of surviving an encounter with these invaders. When Paul arrived in the Mirava system, the sensors picked up a patch of high radiation with a 96.9807% probability of it being caused by an anti-matter explosion. Paul received a message from Mira traffic control containing a movie of the Fosters Revenge helping Dark Angel forces destroy the droid freightor. Paul sent a message to mamajama under a high encryption:

"I have just learned of your mutiny, and needless to say I am not very pleased. Unfortunately, under old Miranu law, you did not commit mutiny. Mutiny is classified as disobeying a superior officers order and/or commiting acts of terrorism against one own government. I never ordered you not to destroy the freightor, and you are not part of our government. However, High Command is very dissatisfied with what you have done. Tread lightly in Miranu space, as you might find yourself on the wrong end of a Adaah Emitter."

The next order of business was the Mechs. There were fifteen of them, but only one would be chosen. Most of them were two legged walking beasts, with a beam weapon welded to one arm and a grasper on the other. One of the better designed ones had two graspers and a kind of phase-gatling gun. Five miniaturized phase cannons had been mounted on a rotating power-mount and had been upgraded with better capacitors and phase-variance crystals, giving it a better firing rate and higher damage. It stood about 2.5 meters high, just barely small enough to creep through and airlock and down corridors in a ship. On one shoulder it had this kind of box, which held old pursuit missiles from before Paul was born. These had a very primitive guidance system(Pretty much straight line), but still had the same damage(6 ammo). On the other shoulder it had a miniaturized Dispersal Rocket launcher, which did about 1/4 the damage but took up less space(2 ammo). This was chosen to be mass produced.

Reports from the battlefield were coming in. Most crews from Miranu ships were gone, but about 1/5 of them still had crew. Enough to get them back with skeleton crews. It would take a few days to repair their engines and get them back to the shipyards. Several Azdgari warships had remained relatively unscathed from shoddily placed or incorrectly made scuttle-charges. A list was sent of the ships that the techs thought most likely to be salvagable:3 Phalanx Battlecruisers and 5 Draekon Light Cruisers. The Azdaras and Aradas had been so small that the scuttle-charges just obliterated them. It would take nearly two weeks to get them running and outfitted with Miranu technology. It would not make up for the Miranu losses.
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Miranu Warship Fixin' Up
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Azdgari Warship Fix up and Refit
ETC:12 Posts(These are ships that had more than 80% of their structure remaining. All others were deemed "Junk". Weapons stores were detonated or deemed unusable)
Mech Mass Production
25 Per Post(Contruction Will Comence after Miranu Warships are fixed)
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New Ship Stats
Vengeance-Class Medium Cruiser(Draekons)
For taking on smaller ships to free up CW's.
Shields:300
Armour:35
Accel:220
Speed:150
Turn:2
Weaps:
4 Lysew Turrets
1 Disruptor Cannon
1 Interceptor Bay+2 Interceptors
Diablo-Class Command Cruiser(Phalanx)
Meant to supplement Dragon Dreadnaughts.
Shields:400
Armour:15
Accel:175
Speed:80
Turn:2
Weaps:
5 Lysew Turrets
1 Disruptor Cannon
1 Heavy Fighter Bay+4 Heavy Fighters
OOC:Mods, if you think that I have not set ample time for the dev of my stuff, say so or change it to what you think is appropriate.

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"You may not throw things at my dragon!"
"We remove the furry killing things. We think only of removing the furry killing things."-The Skies of Pern, Anne McCaffery

<Removed Behemoth Juggernaught>

(This message has been edited by Admiral Benden (edited 04-11-2002).)

OOC: Carno you didit again. Grundy has Kelmoan not ME!!!!!!

the coalition fleet did get stuck in the huron system "what are those?!"
"we dont know sir." replies Lt. Commander
"say aren't those Attar scouts out there with some other ships?" says the captains kid
"your right, bobby!! those are attar scouts!!!!!" Capt.
"sir the targeting system says they are of the Acarra Empire." Lt.
"get this info to everyone in this galaxy as well as this battle now" Capt.
"yes sir" all on bridge
(message to Milkyway)
(milkyway encryption)
attenion milkyway the attar we all met befor are not attar the are of the Acarra Empire and they are very unfriendly. be on your guard as the must be the ones that obliterated the renegades and they are now on my front. i ask this galaxy to unite
and put aside hostile fellings to prevent us from the fate the ST Renegades had.
~Coalition Capt. Jack Shmit aproved by UE Admiral
(and)

(message to Confeds)
(max encrypion)
now that you have seen the threat these Attar or Acarra whatever they call themselves pose wil you give us away to defend ourselves give us cloaks or broadcast cloaks.
~UEA
(end)

"all vessels in huron system. this is UE Admiral i order you help defend the Confed fleet in that system. and should you be lost i asure you your families will be well taken care of."
"you heard him attack"

all the coalition vessels started blasting Acarra fighter back to their home world
taking out 5 befor losing a warcruiser and keep on blasting.
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Coalition of Worlds
R&D;

Dreadnought Construction
Total: 10, ETC: 3 posts

Ionic Particle Beam turret Completed now fiting cannons and turrets on all vessels
ETC: 2 posts

Cenurion Force Engine: increases speed of Dreadnought and Warcruiser by 100
ETC: 6 posts

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Insanity has its advantages

MOD: UE Admiral, the Acarra don't have IFF Transponders. You couldn't figure out that they were Acarra. They are still the Attar to you.

Also, Benden, I highly doubt you would have been able to disable a Predator warship; one of the most fearsome medium warships in the galaxy. I'm okay (unless Red isn't okay) with the Draekon and Phalanx, but not the Predator. Now, be happy with what you have, because in my stories, I don't allow for tech/ship stealing period.

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Huron System

"Jam that transmission!" Thrade ordered as sensors detected the Coalition fleet sending out something.

"Jamming complete. They'll get the first sentence, but the rest will all be hopelessly garbled. Once more, the Coalition won't know that it's been jammed."

The Acarran fleet was in grave danger of being outgunned at this point, and was suffering more and more losses. Out of the 29 warships they originally had, they now only had 19, and many were damaged.

"Call in reinforcements immediately!" Second General Thrade ordered. "I'm glad I left the 11th fleet nearby. These aliens can be rather resistent...."

At that moment, 24 more warships slipstreamed into the system and began to open fire on the Coalition fleet from the rear, catching them off guard and tearing through their lines. The charge was so powerful, that the Coalition formation actually broke up and was split in two. The Confeds didn't have to worry about this though; their formation was already broken up and scattered.

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Hrekka System

The Miranu simply couldn't defeat the might of the Acarran warfleet. As General Lhevak grinned evily and watched, the last of the fleet was disintigrated, and the Acarra ships quickly surrounded the planet.

About half of the population was still on the planet, and as they prepared themselves for what they thought was certain death, Lhevak was preparing his ground troops.

Turning to his seven division commanders, Lhevak grinned evily, then gave them their orders. "Hunt them all down. Do not stop until every last one has been found. Kill those who resist, but capture alive as many as you can..." He stopped, and his eyes glowed. "I want some slave laborers."

The other commanders grinned and stood at attention. "We do not know pain. We do not know fear. We do not death. We will fight and die for the empire!"

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"Citizens of Hrekka; you will surrender now, or we will make you surrender."

Thousands of Acarran soldiers began to take off on frigates and troop transports, and began to be deployed in whole legions on the surface. Marching forward quickly, they overran all resistence, using their psionic powers to power their weapons, throw people across rooms, freeze civillians were they stood, and inflict great pain in other minds which made them fall to the ground. It also seemed as if they could anticipate others moves, which they could; all Acarran soldiers recieved training in telepathy.

As the Acarra began to overrun Hrekka, Lhevak called in reinforcements to reinforce the system. He wanted to make sure this system stayed in Acarran hands...

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If at first you don't succeed...Hit it harder! - Me
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Millennium. Its coming, prepare for it.
Coming to the (url="http://"http://www.ambrosiaSW.com/games/ev/chronicles.html")EV Chronicles(/url).

Huron
"send more ships into the system to help the Confeds."
"yes sir"
a fleet of 30 warcruisers and 40 sharks jump in and quickly establish a formation
with the other vessels and charge the Attar fleet destrying 3 Frigates and 17 fighters
and then the Confeds attack.........
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(message to confeds)
(milkyway encryption)
you best hury on that invention whatever it is. we'll need it.
~UE Admiral
(end)

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Coalition of Worlds
R&D;

Dreadnought Construction
Total: 10, ETC: 2 posts

Ionic Particle Beam turret Completed now fiting cannons and turrets on all vessels
ETC: 1 posts

Cenurion Force Engine: increases speed of Dreadnought and Warcruiser by 100
ETC: 5 posts

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Insanity has its advantages

Huron System

As the Coalition reinforcements entered the system, they were suddenly ambushed by more Acarra reinforcements; four Wolf Starcruisers, escorted by three Centaur Carriers, and nine Enforcer Frigates. Coming at the Coalition from behind, as was a favored Acarra tactic, the starcruisers blasted away several weaker warcruisers before joining up with the main part of the fleet.

The Command Ship Dagon was now in the middle of the fight, surrounded by most of the Acarra fleet, as it plowed through enemy lines, obliterating everything that stood in its path.

Suddenly, the Acarra sent a message to the Confed and Coalition fleet, but it was not the normal type of transmission; it was telepathic...

"We are the Acarra Empire...." said the voice inside everybodies head. "We will destroy you... Surrender now...."

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Ancara System - Acarra Empire Homeworld

The room was completely black, as if it was a great void. No light penetrated the darkness. Not a bit.

Silence was total.

Suddenly, there came a light.

A pair of demon-like eyes glowed green for a moment in the room, but no sound pierced the air. The creature had no need for speech; he was a telepath, and one of the most powerful psionic warriors alive.

Let him in...

As if on command, the great doors slid open, and blue light entered the room, revealing a semicircle of 9 figures. Four of them had grey cloaks, which signified thinking. Two of them wore red cloaks, which signified the warrior. two of them wore green, which signified higher knowledge and wisdom, and finally, one wore a black cloak, for he was the leader.

This was the Covenant; a group of nine Acarran 'priests' who were the spirtual leaders of the Acarra. It was they who declared the 'slugs' which had attacked the milky way, and previously the Acarra as well, a threat to the Acarra, and denounced them as demons sent from the other world. They were powerful, but their concern was more spirtual. The real leader of the Acarra was the Supreme Imperator; Hk'ryund Carnotaur.

Stepping into the dark room, his eyes blazing red, the Supreme of the Imperator spoke to the leader, or Narya Savul, of the covenant; Daegon.

I have come... We await your bidding...

You have done well, Imperator.... The Great One Attar was indeed happy with your successes... But we have another problem... The Shamtul have increased in numbers, and the Miranu have also begun studying the Shamtul.... You know what that means...

Carnotaur nodded. I will destroy the samples as soon as I can, but they are resistent, and do not die easily...

Another covenant-member, or Narya Vahi, named Thelosk spoke. Time is on our side... You will succeed.... We have great faith in you...

Carnotaur grinned evily, his eyes ablaze. "They will fall," he said out-loud.

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If at first you don't succeed...Hit it harder! - Me
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Millennium. Its coming, prepare for it.
Coming to the (url="http://"http://www.ambrosiaSW.com/games/ev/chronicles.html")EV Chronicles(/url).