Grenits system...
As the Sladerei regrouped from their latest training excercies, suddenly, a Federation frigate in the system sent out an emergy transmission to the Sladerei.
"All Sladerei vessels, red alert! Edien warships inbound at vector 12.490! Charge your weapons! All hands to battlestations!"
The Sladerei scrambled their vessels as twenty nine Edien vessels, mostly destroyers and battlecruisers, jumped into the system. To the inexperienced, 29 ships was nothing. To experienced fighters like the Voinians and Federation, 29 ships was deadly. After all, only 200 Edien warships had engaged the whole Northern Crescent during the first invasion, which was home to the North Tip Renegades - one of the most powerful governments in that area. Only 50 ships had layed waste to a large fleet in Dirach. Only 31 ships had devastated 100 Zidagar vessels and the Kisani race when they attacked their homeworld. And the Sladerei were not technilogically advanced, which made them extremely vulnerable to even a mere 29 ships.
The Ediens charged before the Sladerei could even lock their targetting scanners on them. A barrage of quantum torpedoes annihilated the first wave of Sladerei interceptors and fighters as 4 battlecruisers tried to flank the Sladerei on either side.
A Sladerei Destroyer went down from repeated hits as the two sides met in a terrific exchange of fire. The fleets regrouped, then charged again, the Sladerei obviously tanking the brunt of it all...
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Akrehac system...
"Open fire!"
"All strike wings, engage enemy targets!"
"Commander Vrall to fleet; all hands to battlestations!!"
A wave of Kayan fireflies charged the Pirate reef formation, and was once again torn to pieces by a hail of turbophase fire. What the Pirates didn't know was that the Kayans were moving around their rift flank, attempting to catch them from behind.
It was now that the Pirates made their move.
Their rift wing turned tail and ran straight into the end section of the Kayan fleet, pushing the Kayans move towards the center of the Pirate fleet. The left flank did the same, and then the right and left met, and the Kayans were trapped in a ring of Pirate vessels.
The Kayan commander, Commander Vrall, knew how to handle such a situation. "Fighter wings A-D, distract the Pirates! Omega pattern! All other ships, follow me!"
As Fireflies drew enemy fire, the Kayan fleet grouped together and charged the area between the center of the line and the original right flank, which was weakest. Blasting through the Pirate line, taking heavy casualties along the way, Vrall knew the Kayan fleet was too weak to stand up to the 350 attacking Pirates.
But he was saved as another 150 ships jumped in.
There was now 250 Kayan ships to 350 Pirate ships.
The two sides charged each other in the second major battle of the same day...
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Antneb system...
As wings of Azgara bombers moved around the system, suddenly, a battlegroup of 75 Pirate aradas jumped in, loaded with space bombs and rockets.
The Azdgari were caught off guard, and not even they were swift enough to stop the Pirates as the Arada bombers charged towards the shipyards and fuel depots. Antneb was a major shipyard facility, and had 4 shipyard stations, and 3 fuel depots.
The Pirate assault was devastating. Space bombs and rockets flew into the shipyards, causing massive havoc. As a stray rocket hit one of the fuel depots, the explosion caused the whole area to look like hell.
After the Pirates were done, all the fuel depots had been destroyed, and only 1 shipyard remained intact. Nearly 150 warships and fighters had been destroyed in the surprise attack.
Screaming for revenge, the Azdgari reformed and charged the fleeing aradas, slaughtering dozens of them before 250 Pirate warships jumped into the system, destroying 50 Azdgari fighters and arads in three seconds.
The Azdgari now charged with their warships and bombers, causing the whole system to be lit up by massive explosions, bursts of light, and heavy warship firefights. It was as if a supernova was going on.
The battle raged and raged, with no end in site, but the Azdgari were obviously getting hit bad. Forming together, the Azdgari turned tail and ran for their lives, with the Pirates hot on their tail.
The Azdgari jumped into DSN-712, engaged in a small firefight which just cost them more casualties and an asteroid base, and then jumped out towards DSN-711, where they decided to make their stand.
As the Pirates jumped in, reinforced by another 200 ships, the Azdgari knew they were outgunned, but they simply couldn't let the Pirates get to Deneba. However, the outcome was inevitable; the Pirates destroyed the remnants of the Azdgari fleet, then jumped out towards Deneba.
Jumping into the system, they found the Rune and a fleet of 200 Azdgari warships to the Pirate fleet of 400 vessels. As the two sides charged, a lone arada wandered off towards the sub-space rift entrance.
As sub-space strained under the massive firefight raging in normal space between two military behemoths, the Rune was ambushed by a fighter wing of aradas, loading with space bombs. The old Voinian weapons floated towards the Rune supercruiser, then detonated, tearing gaping holes in its armor. Emporer Tasina was killed in the blast.
And during this, that lone arada entered the sub-space rift...
...And was swept along instantly through a swirling blue rift. As the Pirates marvelled at the site, they failed to notice 50 some unusual energy signatures approaching them. When they did notice, it was too late, and the Arada was mysteriously vaporized by a lone sub-space torpedo from an unknown ship...
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And during this time, other 30 billion people lived on peacefully, not knowing that on the same day, in two different galaxies, in three different systems, three different races were fighting for survival against the forces of evil...
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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).
(This message has been edited by Captain Carnotaur (edited 12-15-2001).)