Viper took it's time to walk down towards the hanger, making sure to check on it's comrades one last time before arriving onto the hanger floor just after Pippin.
"The planet's seems lifeless and barren from what our scans picked up, maybe there's some kind of underground sanctuary that lies beneath the surface of this dead rock?" The Sanghvi said as it stood next to Lion.
High Command's channel was quickly scrambled from a traceable source, Lt. General Brigg raised his eyebrow. He can tell this signal was near.
"Who is this, and what do you want?" He asked them.
"This is commander Seth Rollondos of the mercenary transport ship "Fang". We have an auxiliary ship here that could be used in reconnaissance. We request that we send it down to the planet to scout."
Brigg was thinking right now, reconnaissance already caught on that the planet has no signatures but they never actually landed on the surface of Zeruel. He turned to one of the military strategists on this operation.
"What are the odds the CS are already down there?" Brigg asked them.
"Sending a scout alone to that surface is risky, the odds it might trigger a security system could blow this out of proportion."
"And do we just stand here like sitting ugly ducklings?! General, we need to take action." Another said.
"This is what they want us to do, bait us in for the kill. Brigg, we can't afford that risk."
Brigg nodded and turned to the comm. He pressed it as he cleared his voice. "This is Lt General Brigg, unfortunately we cannot allow freelance scouts to enter the surface. The odds of the CS appearing at any moment is high to our standard, not to mention their stealth technology might be at this, we cannot afford it. I'm sorry." Brigg expressed.
"Understood, Rollondos out." Seth looked at Noble. "Tell Xavier to count his lucky stars and that he's on cleaning duty once we land."
Lion looked at Viper. "Interesting theory, actually that would make alot of sense. If their entire operation is underground they don't need too heavy shielding."
He then gestured outwards with his hands as he rose up. "In any case, let's begin with the briefing." Lion held his left hand with the palm upwards.
A shimmering blue light appeared from his hand, flickering before taking the shape of the Archius.
"Before we go to battle we need to go over the combat formation. As we go planetside, it's imperative that we have a airtight defense. So, let's get to it."
The hologram altered, now showing the Ranger, Roughrider, Talon and Eagle infront of the Archius.
"First we the Archius, Sheila will handle combat support and bombardment from afar and I've given her instructions to fire in volleys. For the attack group we have the Ranger upfront, manned by myself and Dwan. To the left we have Talon and to the right we have Eagle piloted by Viper and Andronicus separately.
I will use every single weapon mounted on my ship to clear us a path while Viper and Andronicus will keep our flanks covered. Dwan will be manning my top turret meaning that he will have a good position to observe, call out and engage targets. It is crucial that you call out your targets.
Finally Roughrider will be at our rear, piloted by Pippin. Using the magnetic locks I installed, Roughrider will carry Jaegermeister. Varn and Iska will either sit inside the ship, giving Pippin gunners covering the front and rear, or you'll sit inside the tank during transport which would allow for much faster deployment.
In any case we're gonna have to act fast, once Pippin descends we need to give him both cover and space. While halfway down, Viper and Andronicus will break off and engage anyone trying to tail Pippin. As soon as Pippin drops the tank we'll form up again and, if we have the opportunity, we'll perform a single strafing run to secure the imminent area around our LZ. After that we'll land around Jaegermeister and regroup where we'll wait for further orders."
Lion looked up. "Questions?"
[Gonna see a movie. Varn has control over Iska till I get back]
If they're not here, we should send some of our fleet just out of the system, incase they try to ambush us.
[Check updated post.]
"I don't thrust risking our lives on some synth that's still in the prototype stage but I understand your reasoning for it as we don't have the luxury of having an full range of starpilots on hand. Nevertheless Captain, I'm confident in your leadership sir." Viper said to Lion after finished his speech before looking over the crewmembers on deck.
"I appreciate your confidence in me." Andron deadpanned to Viper.
Dwan spoke up. "What will the others on the ship do?", he asked. "I know that folks like the Food and Basic Personnel will probably not do much, especially the Food Personnel and Pyrovik. I'll guess that the rest of the Engineering Personnel will be hard at work, making sure the ship is OK. The Science Personnel I'm guessing will also be hard at work, making sure people are OK. But what will Sledge and Lemmy be doing?", Dwan added to his question.
"What is this..?" Yanim whispered as she scanned the planet's surface for any signs of activity.
"The radio chatter is indecipherable- everyone's talking at once-" Neasha said as her eyes darted around the ship's console in search of any sort of hostile radar activity.
Rask sat with his arms propped up on his knees, bouncing his fingertips off of each other as he controlled his breathing. Virin paced the room, checking his OBV for combat readiness. They remained silent, waiting for Neasha to tell them what was going to happen.
"Got no problem being in the Roughrider. It's preferable, since the my suit AI can control the tank as long as I'm near it." he turned around to face Pippin "Just make sure you're close enough to the ground for us to jump out safely and far enough so you can get out of there quick."
"The feeling's lukewarm then I assume. Nevertheless, let's hope your ability to intercept me on Gadon is the same as intercepting bogies on my six." Viper snarky replied to Andron.
“Crimson Brigade!” A voice yelled throughout the room.
“Oi!” The crowd of men responded. Their firearms were made from the Conduit, synergic at its core. They spotted the man speaking without his helmet on, a normal man with blonde hair, a rough face structure.
“Our lives are at stake, a grand fleet has marched in our territory and think they’re playing us like a damn fiddle. Up there, right in our door step stands men who think they’re on top of the Galaxy.” He paced on as he saw their faces all of them, from Human to Kercan. He simply nodded.
“The path you chose is a wise decision, defending this planet is detrimental. Do not fail or else death will be the least of your worries.” He spoke up. The rows of soldiers raised their fist to their chest.
“Oi!” The men echoed.
“Get to your stations, man the Synergy SACs, and make everything count!” He yelled, he grabbed his helmet and sealed it tightly. He marched to the system and looked above. “They can’t see us, but we can.” He turned to the operator.
“Remember Lt, this gun is highly dangerous. But it can be compatible to the shield, so don’t worry about busting it.” A female grunt said.
“Good to know, man your station Ciera-21530.” Ciera saluted and went to the guns. The Lieutenant strapped in and activated all systems, the violet aura spawned within his armor as well as the gun.
Before he aimed he heard a final voice. “Sir, they’re waiting on us to respond.” A voice said.
“Even if they come to our surface or stay in their position, they are vulnerable. I’d say we give them what they want. A good fight.” He said.
The surface was rocky and dead, however, the entire area shook and raddled to the sound. The rocky terrain in specific spots cracked with wide gaps, revealing small cannons in place, barely visible. The Lieutenant sighed in tiredness, the only emotion he could feel. Fear was quite literally out of his system as his fear inhibitor disallowed it. What will the future hold? He didn’t know, he was just a factor.
War is hell after all.
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“CHARGE YOUR WEAPONS! I WANT TO HEAR THE MUSIC OUT OF YOU!” He roared.
…
The Grand Armada, laid silent until several chatters spawned throughout the channels.
Bruta could barely make out a thing. “What the fuck…?” He expressed as an entire structure of the planet was covered in a violet substance, right this way coming down were a barrage of bright beams coming out of the fucking ground.
“FUCK!” Ject screamed as he led his way out of the indirect firepower. His ship was barely out of the beam as it intercepted a Privateer vessel, piercing it through. An explosion engulfed the internal components of it, systems going critical. The ship descended down and shattered in half.
The three had barely noticed what was really going on.
“No way, no fucking way. They have a fucking shield with them?!” The suspense was gone, they were vulnerable for attack. Everyone.
“What the fuck do we do?!” A crazed Ject yelled.
“Ject, calm the fuck down-
“Don’t calm me down, we’re gonna die!” Ject said.
“Ject listen to him.” Elli pleaded as she manned the guns.
"Fuck, fuck fuck fuck!" Ject grabbed his hair.
…
Harken Saw gazed at this, looking down at the entire battle. He adjusted his tie and sighed. “You have ranged defenses of your own, if you’re trying to impress me then I’m not buying it.” He marched to his office and went elsewhere.
Vara stared at this enormous power, she widened her eyes at the beams along with the planet-sized shield covering Zeruel. “No…”
Hordes of drones came out of the planet, intercepting small fighters.
“All forces, engage!” An Admiral yelled to every single ship they had in their arsenal.
"Gokorat! [Damnation!]" Neasha jerked the stick and opened the throttle as the order was given to engage. "Help me!" she cried as Rask operated the targeting system. Drones were coming. Virin fell on the autocannon controls while Yanim directly controlled the popout machine guns via her implant.
Viper flashed to action instantaneously, rushing to it's vessel as it felt the void ignite into frames around them. ''Action stations! Action stations!" The Implant repeated very frequency within the Archius XI's comms as it jump and locked into the Talon, readying every system in seconds.
The sight outside of the Archius was quite intimidating to say the least, waves of beams made form solid energy shattered the sky around them. Drones deployed en mass with number from the plant's surface as an enormous shield went live to protect the world as fleet laid a countless amount of volleys from their main guns onto the planet.
"Sir, we have drones engaging our surrounding forces! Engage?" Viper yell across the comm to Lion as the Talon was ready for launch.
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"Command, our client's fleet has surrounded the prime target and are engaged with the prominent party's first set of active defenses, Advance?" An voice echoed within the hull of cold vessel lurking among the nearby stars with many others in tow of it.
"Negative, Patience, Watch..." A synthetic voiced replied as they sat in wait within an field of the shattered remains of orbital stations and burning debris in outer thermosphere of an distance planet, an target that had already been taken care off.
[You know, in hindsight I should have looked at the TV tropes page if there was a ship already called Talon :v: Time to fix that.]
Varn and Iska entered the Roughrider as it was being prepared to take off. Both seating in their positions.
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The drones started to approach the Fang. Luckily it was a Kraken class transport, so it wasn't totally defenseless "Arm the defenses and take out every piece they throw at us. Mercury, I wan't those interceptors in out of the hangar! Now!"
"There's about 5 of them. You sure you want to do this?"
"Question me again and I'll launch you as a torpedo."
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Mercury looked at the pilots. "Alright pups, listen up! Get inside those interceptors and stay in formation. Remember, you're the wolf teeth! Start tearing flesh and metal!"
The pilots got in their interceptors and flew out to engage the incoming drones.
"Sledge and Lemmy will act as backup, they'll remain here on standby." Said Lion. Just as he finished, he recieved an alert a mere second before volleys of weapons fire began hitting the fleet.
"Move! This is it!" Yelled Lion. He saw that Viper and Andronicus were already taking off while Iska, Varn and Pippin dashed towards Roughrider.
Lion ran through the interior of the Ranger, halfway through he hit a button before continuing, causing the turret ladder to drop down. "Dwan! Get on that gun!"
He sat down and started to power up the ship. "Alright crew, form up and let the fighter and bomber sorties begin their first runs. We got drones incoming, make sure none of them hit Roughrider."
The Ranger's engines roared and the ship took off.
Pippin and Varn ran straight to the front of the roughrider while Iska stayed behind in the cargo compartment to make sure the Jaegermeisters systems were ready for immediate startup.
When this was done she closed the door and readied the rear cannons.
She lit a cigarette and leaned towards the comm that lead to the pilot and gunner seats at the front.
"Ready" she said with a monotone voice.
The incoming drones were fast, and annoying to say from everyone's point of view. Both sides clashed with superiority, aiming to defeat one's force.
The drones went to the Archius and nevertheless surrounded it, firing at any target.
They also with to any vulnerable fighter in place, noticing the Belladonna at the center. They went in and shot bursts.
[combat a go]
"Roger Captain, I see that you all make it to the surface in one piece. " Viper responsed as the blast out of the hanger ahead of the roughrider and in full view of the carnage in the stars above the planet.
The sight was alot to take in for Viper before sapping out of it an moment later.
"Snyth, targets?" Viper said over the comms as trailed aling side the roughrider.
Dwan straightened up and ran into the Ranger, quickly getting into the top turret. Once the Ranger took off, Dwan took a look around to see how the outer space of Zeruel looked like.
He watched as the drones began surrounding the Archius. "Drones coming our way!", Dwan yelled, as he fired at them.
"Alright breaking off to intercept targets on my flank, I reckon you're be doing the same,synth. Just don't out reach too far." Viper said as it broke off to engage with an sect of drones that had was already in battle with the Archius's turrets.
"Targets acquired." Varn cracked his knuckles and began to fire at the few drones that made it through.
[QUOTE=Damian0358;48881475]Dwan straightened up and ran into the Ranger, quickly getting into the top turret. Once the Ranger took off, Dwan took a look around to see how the outer space of Zeruel looked like.
He watched as the drones began surrounding the Archius. "Drones coming our way!", Dwan yelled, as he fired at them.[/QUOTE]
Mini Roll Critical Failure[highlight][1][/highlight]: Dwan repeatedly fired around the drones as they surrounded the Archius, they noticed the suspect and flew towards the position as they went for the Ranger's tail. The drones aimed at the back, firing endlessly as the hull took damage.
[QUOTE=Deathgrunt;48881542]"Alright breaking off to intercept targets on my flank, I reckon you're be doing the same,synth. Just don't out reach too far." Viper said as it broke off to engage with an sect of drones that had was already in battle with the Archius's turrets.[/QUOTE]
Mini Roll[4]: Viper engaged the drones that were attacking the turrets of the Archius, some drones took off and fought Viper's ship, clashing endlessly. Thankfully Viper saw no hits land on his ship but he soon found the drones will still attacking the turrets, destroying them one by one.
[QUOTE=kilerabv;48881546]"Targets acquired." Varn cracked his knuckles and began to fire at the few drones that made it through.[/QUOTE]
Mini Roll[7]: Varn made it off to secure the ship's protection, aiming at these drones then using his turrets to destroy the few. While these drones were maneuverable they weren't tough and looked like they could be shot down with a few shots.
The ongoing battle with these drones have started to shoot at everyone. Ject steered clear of the drones while Bruta and Elli fired blindly. The everlasting beams already sunk a Privateer Ark Battleship from operation. The generals gritted their teeth in frustration. They were too blind to see that they bought the trap to them all along.
"This is High Command, forward in advance." He yelled out.
Orders were barely heard as everyone was too busy fighting and avoiding getting hit by the Crimson Son's defenses. "We have to enter through that shield!"
"[Yanim, steer them!]" Virin called out as Rask confirmed lock on to multiple targets. Yanim used the machine guns to create a cloud of fire which the drones were expected to avoid by falling into a "safe" corridor. There, Virin would attempt to knock them out using the flak autocannon.
"Serek, keep us vertical, belly at 190!" Rask shouted, instructing Neasha to point the nose of the ship directly at the planet with its gun placements pointed at the approaching drones.
Pippin looked at the drones flying by their ships, then down at the planet. "what the hell are we supposed to do with that shield up?" He shouted
(does the roughrider have any weapons the pilot can control?)
"[Shit!]", Dwan said to himself. Dwan aimed at the drones firing at them and counter-fired.
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"Serfs at the ready!", Aver Lagul yelled out, as the Golden Wave scrambled to send out its combat fleets out against the Son. "Anfall!", she shouted, as the fleets engaged in combat.
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