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Post by SeizedChief on Apr 27, 2014 6:51:39 GMT
Welcome all, as a reminder, if you need reference in the future always refer back to the (SU). Also, a request to all participants. I would like at least one post on the thread each day. Hope that it stops procrastinating ass-hats from holding up the whole RP. If there isn't a post in a day, I will simply advance the RP myself as I see fit. Trust me, I'm a dick when I do things like that, so you better post.  Now we begin, in the System of Ryloth, in the Outer Rim of the Andromeda Galaxy... |
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Post by SeizedChief on Apr 27, 2014 8:02:00 GMT
"Our reactor seems reaching critical levels, Fleet Master!" An officer shouted out. "The spike in activity is putting extreme stress on our drives. Engineers on all vessels are reporting similar anomalies, and are confused as to where the spike in activity originated from. They recommend we bring the fleet out of the void to analyse our drives safely."
"Understood." Voras replied. "Order the Fleet to drop out of the void. But we can not keep the Hierarchs waiting." He then ordered. He leaned back into his command chair, and watched the large blank purple view screen the dominated the front of the bridge. Normally it would display the view from the ship, as the Covenant had their bridges situated in the most armored sections of the ship. Far more efficient then Human designs which presented their bridge as a large target for attackers. The ship gave a large shake as it dropped out of the void, and the bridge lights shut off, before being turned back on dimly by emergency generators. "Report!" Voras shouted.
"All vessels have lost power and are currently rebooting their reactors." He heard. Voras pressed a couple glowing symbols on his command chair, and a purple hologram of his Assault Carrier appeared just in front of him. Status was indicated by symbols, and the whole ship had lost all power to all systems; except life support, lighting, and all basic bridge functions. "How long until the reactor is back online?" Voras asked, bringing up a hologram of the whole fleet with the same status across the board.
"3 Units, sire. No real damage has been done." Voras flexed his mandibles in thought for a second, and pressed the symbols on the chair again making the hologram of the fleet disappear. He stared straight ahead at the blank screen, waiting to see what might appear.
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Post by spartaneternal on Apr 27, 2014 15:55:01 GMT
Commander Alpha stands in the center of the command room, holographic screens all around of him. The Sphere Ship and the other three ships float in space The Hive seen in the distance. "Begin Spacial Warp." A beam shoots from the focus sphere into space creating a large worm hole. "Today we are running a surveillance mission, now forward." The small fleet shoots into the worm hole and it closes behind them.
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Post by SeizedChief on Apr 27, 2014 22:00:22 GMT
Garen raced to the holotable as the clang of boarding ship resounded throughout the Venator. There was something else too, Garen sensed a strong Dark Side presence nearby as well. The bridge of the Incorruptible was chaos, officers shouted out the status of each section of the vessel, and areas the Droids had boarded. What he mainly got form them was the engines were gone, but communication still fine for the time. "Whats the nearest Republic fleet to our position?" He shouted, receiving a quick reply.
"General Kenobi's, sir!" A officer shouted. Suddenly an image of Kenobi, along with Anakin Skywalker and Ahsoka Tano appeared on the table. "Master, I've been ambushed by a massive CIS fleet and need reinforcements. They easily destroyed two of my three ships, and are currently boarding."
"Calm yourself, Anakin and Admiral Yularen will be there soon, you need only hold them off a little-" Garen turned, ignoring Kenobi as two red sabers started cutting through the bridge's blast doors. Ventress. "Get back!" He shouted, and all clones obeyed. The officers took refuge in the trenches that ran along the side of the main walkway. Garen himself ducked down behind the holotable, next to Captain Falco. Falco was a grizzled vet, having served with Garen since the beginning of the war. He had his armor painted with light grey accents, and on his helmet was a Falcons head on each side. He had his two blaster pistols out, and pointed at the door. The two sabers finished cutting a large circle in the door, and the cut out circle flew forward, crashing into the holotable.
Waves of droids poured out of the entrance, killing off the clones one by one. Eventually leaving only Garen and Falco. The droids abruptly stopped, and Garen lowered his saber as he watched Assajj Ventress walk through the carnage. "Ah, Garen Marr. If you hand over that little holocron of yours I will make sure to make your death as painless as I can." She said, igniting her two sabers. Garen backed up, walking onto the center walkway of the bridge. "If you want it, you'll have to kill me for it." Garen replied.
"Oh how I love when Jedi are so stupid." She leaped at him over the holotable. Garen dodged to the left, missing the two blades by inches. She retaliated, putting him on the defense as she battered him with constant strikes. He was pushed back to the front of the bridge, now having no room to maneuver. He went on his own attack, attempting to break through her defense. She parried all attacks she could, having to dodge others. He pushed her back to the center of the walkway, and they locked blades. "You think you can beat me Jedi? You're a pathetic child, boy!" Garen broke out of the lock, and Ventress simply threw him back with the force. He crashed into the front wall of bridge, crumpling to the ground.
Falco fired a couple shots at the Sith assassin. She easily deflected the shots, and started force choking him into unconsciousness. Garen used that time to launch himself at Ventress, catching her off guard. She quickly brought up her blades, dropping Falco to the ground in a heap. Garen and Ventress clashed blades once more, furiously trying to kill each other. But Garen knew he was outmatched. He was only buying time. Ventess parried a couple more of his strikes and they locked blades once more. "Your Jedi friends won't be able to help you this time rat!" Garen kicked the assassin in the waist, knocking her down. He went in for another strike, but she reached out a hand. Snarling she started to choke him with the force, just as she had with Falco. He dropped his saber and it turned off. Garen clutched his throat as he was choked, and noticed a flash out of the corner of his eye. Out of the port side viewports he saw six massive ships exit glowing blue portals. One of them had to be over 5 Kilometers long, the others had to be around twice the size of the Venator he was on currently. Ventress turned to look at the disturbance as well, then turned back to the Jedi. "Be grateful that I need you Jedi scum. After your usefulness is outlived, I will kill you in the most painful way I can." She dropped him, and ordered some droids to drag him to a shuttle, and take him to the CIS flagship. She picked up his saber, examined it a little, and clipped it to her belt before walking off with him in tow.
"Fleet Master, we have visuals!" Voras heard. The blank screen lit up, and the first thing he noticed was a battle before him. A battle in which one side was obviously losing. Debris was scattered around the area from seemed to be several destroyed ships. One side had only one vessel remaining, the other side still had many. possibly up to twenty warships in fact. One side had a large, wedge shaped craft with two towers which seemed like bridges. The other side had numerous different types of warships. The two largest of which was a large disk with a central sphere; the other was a small ship with a huge tower above its engines. "They are not Human, at least from appearance." He said to himself.
"Sire, the construct can not recognize any local star positions." He heard. The construct, was a ship board AI. Used for navigation, communication, anything that would be unruly for a being to do by themselves. But it had no personality like Human constructs. So it was not an annoyance. "What?! Find our position!"
"We can not, sire. It does not seem we are in our own galaxy." Voras was angry after hearing that, dangerously angry. But he calmed himself. "Contact who ever wins the battle, and nobody before that." Voras ordered.
"Sire, we know who will win. Is it not obvious?" An officer replied.
"Have the Humans not snatched victory from the jaws of defeat? I see no reason why these creatures may not do the same." He replied.
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Post by Kutie Elsa on May 1, 2014 21:35:27 GMT
“Your majesty! The RIS fleet outnumbers us 3 to 1!” The deck officer was always in a panic.
“Calm yourself, I can’t have a panicking officer on deck… it makes us look weak.” A voice from the second deck was heard. The bridge was designed with a blast door to the rear and a deck above the blast door. To the rear of the top deck was a private lift to the ship captain’s quarters. Looking over the bridge from the second deck, to the left was a ramp down to the first deck where the helms stood in the center, to his right, was the cartographer’s station. Behind her was the Cyber warfare station. To the left of the helms was the engineering station and behind her was the chief of medical. There were plenty of other stations but those were the most important.
She stood up on her command chair and stared out the front view panes, a small girl who looked no more than 12 years old, long orange hair tied up in twin tails and red eyes. The bright colors of orange on her cloak contrasting her pale white skin. “I want Priestess Elise to move the Elysium to grid E8, Send Freki and Gere class cruisers to grid points D3 and D8.” The small girl continued to bark out grid points on their strategy maps. Her fleet was of over a hundred ships with hers and Elise’s combined. But the RIS was three hundred plus strong and determined to take the asteroid filled with a powerful crystal called Argesium. The crystals are blue and purple in color and provide more energy than uranium. They are highly toxic to exposed bodies, but are more stable than any elemental energy source. The Kurkairian empire must not lose this supply, “Send the mining craft out! Defend them at all costs!” She shouted to the bridge crew.
Sitting next to Klara’s command chair was a small white platform where another girl, around the age of 14, sat. The girl had long white hair and red glowing eyes. A collar around her neck had two wires going into the back of her head, and two more running down into her uniform of a white jacket and blue skirt. Her name was Lex and she the ship’s humanized AI. The Kurkairian Empire believes that Humans with bodily implants serve better as ship AI’s, but the conversion works best with young girls. The Conversion shortens the girl’s life span to about 5 years. So once she is roughly 16 years old, the girl is replaced and shortly dies after. They are highly obedient and have personalities of their own. “Onii-sama, I am detecting a spacial quake at grid k4.” The Girl said softly.
“Fuck, no, not now!” She yelled, “Hard to port! Abandon the mining operation! All ships prepare to jump!” Klara was standing in front of her chair leaning over the railing barking orders at everyone. “Elise, jump to sector KJ89, I will meet you there.” Klara said over her comms system to the other Priestess. The RIS was also in full retreat, their FTL drives activating and their ships leaving the sector. The Indulgence was one of the last ships to leave the area, the massive Rift took form and began to do its toll on the Indulgence. Before the Rift could actually damage the Indulgence severally, the ship was able to open its void and travel through phase space with 6 other Kurkairian ships.
In the midst of the republic battle against the separatists, yet another unidentifiable faction comes into play. A large void opened up just outside the range of battle and the bow of a 7 thousand meter long ship entered the space. The ship was mostly black and not a single light active on the vessel. The Bow read Indulgence, and beside the Indulgence were 3 other small cruisers roughly over a thousand meters in length. These cruisers looked highly similar to the Indulgence, but they lacked the massive blades on the hull.
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Post by Dark Templar on May 1, 2014 22:02:32 GMT
Siegmeyer sat across from a man, in one of the many holding cells the ship had. His helmet was set on the table, however the rest of his armor was still on him. "So, you thought you could go against the Black Knights? Didn't you Lieutenant?" He asked calmly, watching as the man in front of him gave a worried nod. "You know the consequences, now don't you? To think, I though a pitiful scum like you, could actually be of some use to me. However I digress." He spoke calmly as ever, before walking around the table. Siegmeyer quickly picked up the man by the collar of his shirt. "Strip, now. You don't deserve to wear that uniform. You only deserve death, and death you shall have."
Within the next fifteen minutes, the ships massive hangar was filled to the brim with men, and women of the Black Knights. They all shouted, and cheered in a mixture of anger, and delight. It had been months since last an execution was performed publicly, by their leader. So they tended to make it a rather public display, almost a celebration in a sense. The only few who were missing from all this were the mechanics, and those one the bridge. Sadly they had to busy themselves coordinating repairs on the ship, due to the traitor who was to be executed today.
However the crowd only continued to increase in volume as the traitor was escorted into the middle of the hangar. The man was stripped down to nothing more than his bare flesh, and a set of cuffs that bound his hands so he stood no chance to fight back.
"This man stands here before us now, for multiple attempts at destroying this ship, and several attempts at mutiny." Siegmeyer called out, his voice projected by a microphone. For those in the crowd who could not get close enough, several video screens were set up, so they could watch from afar with ease. "I will strip the flesh from his bone, and set him afire. So he may suffer, like he deserves. Should he survive, he will continue to serve this ship, until he dies." Siegmeyer yelled once more as he drew his katana. Several men strapped the traitor into place, so he could not move anymore.
"So, how's it feel? How's it feel to be helpless, and only a few minutes from death?" Siegmeyer asked to the man, since he had set his microphone down. As she spoke he actually began to drag the blade down the mans arm, watching as the flesh stripped, and fell away near instantly. It took him sometime to peel away every bit of the mans flesh, however soon enough all that was showing was the mans muscle tissue. Siegmeyer decided to leave at this point, listening to pained screams as he heard a flamethrower start to spew.
Soon enough Siegmeyer was sitting in his captains chair again, Rei was projected up in front of him now. "I always do wonder what happened to the Priestesses. Any information on them yet Rei?" He asked, however all he received from her was a shake of the head. "Understood, return to ship operation then."
However as soon as he finished speaking, it seemed Siegmeyer was launched much farther elsewhere. Of course he based that on the panic that his crew showed, since the radars went blank, and all mapping technology went down. They were officially in uncharted territory, all due to a slip-space jump, going wrong.
"Rei, status?" Siegmeyer ordered from his chair, even through all of this, the commander seemed to show no fear.
"Uncharted territory, possibly hostile enemies in the region. Arming all defensive, and offensive systems now." Rei replied, the projection of herself disappearing soon after, since she had to devote more time to working, than just chatting with the crew.
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Post by SeizedChief on May 1, 2014 23:38:48 GMT
Garen was half conscious as he was dragged into the port side hangar. A Separatist shuttle landed soon after, and he was hauled aboard. He heard the assassin talking to holoprojector, most likely talking to the droid commanders. "Contact all those ships, I want to know why they're here. Inform me of their reply once I am aboard the Providence." She cut off her communication, then contacted a man Garen knew. A man every Jedi knew, a traitor, and a Sith Lord. Count Dooku. "Master, I have captured the Jedi and the Holocron as you have requested. He was pathetic. And we are taking as much data as we can from their ship as we can as we speak."
"Good my apprentice. Bring the Jedi and the holocron to Raxus Prime. I shall meet with you there."
"There is another thing, Master. Several unknown ships have dropped out of... Portals it seems and are sitting there, watching us."
"Tell them to leave, if they do not, destroy them."
"They have at least two star dreadnoughts, Master. And most all ships with them make our ships appear small, and weak. My fleet will be overwhelmed if they attack." Ventress replied.
"I must tell my master of this. Contact them all, and wait for me to come to you."
"Yes, my Master." She replied, cutting off communication. The shuttle made its way into the large Providence Carrier, and Garen was soon dragged to cell with a containment field, rendering him immobile. The droids stepped out, and locked the door behind them. Garen closed his eyes, and tried his best to meditate on the situation.
Voras stared at the view screen, surprised to see new contacts. One didn't appear like a Human ship at all, but carried Human lettering along its side. That vessel intrigued him, but he also knew Human never built vessels that large. The second contact seemed like a Human flagship. And had even appeared from slipspace, unlike the other massive ship. Despite the obvious differences to the Humans he knew, he was almost certain they were Human ships. The only reason he did not order an attack was that the unknowns were between him, and them. He was quite curious of the two unknowns, and would rather not destroy them. In fact, if he could he would wish to report to the Prophets. The more species that joined their holy Covenant, the more would be saved by the Great Journey. But should they resist, they would be crushed. The Indulgence, how ironic... "We are receiving a transmission Fleet Master, from the unknown flagship it seems. A holopanel appeared in front of Voras, like a terminal of sort for communication. A construct, to rule a fleet? Fools to whoever designed it. Voras greeted it Sangheili. "Greetings construct. I do hope you are not the leader of this fleet." The robot acted like it didn't hear him, then spoke in English.
"Explain your presence in the Ryloth System."
"I will not explain myself to a construct. Fetch your master, or leave us be." Voras replied, this time in English.
"My Mistress will be here shortly." The droid replied.
"Contact me once she is, I do not wish to talk to an annoyance anymore." Voras switched off the holopanel, and went back to staring at the view screen. Humans? I do hope they are not... "Activate the Luminary, scan for any artifacts." Voras ordered. His crew complied, and he waited for the results to appear on a hologram.
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Post by Kutie Elsa on May 2, 2014 3:01:30 GMT
“Oh… a droid, that is how they are going to greet the oh powerful Klara Blüttraum! 3rd Priestess of the Kurkairian Empire! Humph. Not interested. If you want to talk to me again, then stop hiding behind a droid and speak with me face to face.” the girl tapped her comms button disconnecting it.
She looked to her right to see their AI sitting with her eyes closed. She was familiarizing herself with the space around the Indulgence using the super sensors array that deployed from the bottom of the ship. (The Array looks like a massive antenna/satellite extending from the bottom. In battle it retracts to stay protected inside.)
“Lex, Establish comms with our supporting ships.” She paused and thought, ee had 6 others but only 3 survived the travel…. “Also Lex, check the status of the Gere and Freki class frigates. If they are okay, then have the crews deploy.” The girl with wires from her head to a collar and wires going down her back to a belt, nodded.
“All frigates seem to be in order ma’am,” the AI stated. Klara leaned over and responded, “Good, tell their crews to be ready for detachment but on my mark. I don’t want our true numbers exposed.” She said.
(Freki and gere frigates are only 800 meters long, relatively small. The 3 cruisers on the other hand are only slightly smaller than a star destroyer, so roughly 1300-1400 meters long and they are Fenrir class cruisers best for long distance fighting. While the indulgence is fit for long range and close quarters.)
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Post by Dark Templar on May 2, 2014 3:36:38 GMT
"Incoming transmission sir, patching it through." Rei said calmly, pulling a up a screen in front of Siegmeyer, and the rest of the crew. Displaying a single droid to them, who seemed to be explaining something.
"Explain your presence, within the Ryloth system." The droid commanded, only to earn a small chuckle from Siegmeyer.
"Now listen here, you hunk of scrap metal. I will not explain my presence, beyond the fact I'm here to take every bit of money, weapons, and crew mates I can, before leaving this piece of shit part of the galaxy." Siegmeyer replied, earning nothing more than a small chuckle from his crewmen. After all, they knew most of what he said wasn't true. Aside from the fact he wanted more weaponry, and possibly some more crew.
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Post by SeizedChief on May 2, 2014 5:16:47 GMT
"The Luminary detects hundreds of symbols for reclamation! These are Humans, Fleet Master!" An officer shouted. A hologram of all nearby ships appeared, between the command chair and the view screen. It showed the symbols aboard all vessels, even the wedge shaped one. But only one aboard the droid flagship. The ship with the large tower. "We can not win. They outnumber us, four to one." Voras said.
"Then we shall fight! And die with honor!" One Elite yelled.
"We will brother, but not today. We must continue the Prophets work, we must find the artifact. Dying will not help us." Voras replied.
"What you speak is heresy! If we do not attack they will first! Numbers is the Human's only ally!" The Elite shouted.
"Calm yourself! Brother, we shall eliminate these vermin. But blindly charging into battle is not an honorable death! Honorable is when your Keep writes stories of your death upon its walls! Our valiant tails will never reach home!" Voras yelled in reply. The Elite that had spoken out quieted himself. "Relay the order throughout the fleet, I expect complete obedience from my warriors. Rebels are to be killed." The communication officer complied, spreading the order through the ship, and later, the fleet. Only a couple hundred Sangheili tried fighting back on each ship, and were easily put down. Almost all staying loyal to their Fleet Master. The same logic he had used was also used, and many wished to have their Keeps hold stories of their success, and death.
"Incoming transmission, Sire" A officer said.
"Put it through." Voras ordered. His holopanel appeared in front of him once more. Hovering right above his waist, like a normal console but for a commander. The communication was from the CIS flagship again, but instead of a droid, it was what looked like a hairless Human female with extremely pale skin. Two more feeds appeared on the console, and two more humans did as well. I will be crowned a heretic for this... "Humans..." Voras growled out the word, with as much hate as disgust in the word as would be in spit.
The woman, looked slightly angered. "I am Dathomirian. But I suppose a species from wildspace would not know that." Ventress replied. Voras grunted a reply, already cursing himself for letting this Dathomirian live. "I am Asajj Ventress of the Confederacy of Independent Systems, I would like to know how, and why you are all here." She said, and smiled as nice as she could. It would be a nice gesture, if she didn't look like she was about to kill someone. She dares to call me primitive... This pest will be the first to die...
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Post by Kutie Elsa on May 2, 2014 5:46:55 GMT
Appearing on the monitors on the bridge was none other than Voras, Asajj while the third remained blank for now. Klaras deep blood lusting red Eyes was not a normal human feature, Her pale as white skin and fangs were the only others keeping her from the technical term or Human. Back behind her was not only an obvious human, Lex, who still bore collars of wires and shiny blue pixilated eyes, but a tall alien in battle armor. He resembled that of a Minotaur in shining Platinum armor.
The small girl with Red eyes had the appearance of a child but the Armored Minotaur had just addressed her as Priestess before she spoke giving the impression that she was the ship’s commander. “Asajj Ventress… What a peculiar name, but it has a nice ring to it.” She picked up a glass full of a thick red liquid and sipped from it. “Before I give you my answer, I’d like to respond with a question of my own first…” She paused, “what do you fight for? And I am not asking for who.”
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Post by spartaneternal on May 2, 2014 16:49:01 GMT
A large spinning worm hole appears a decent distance from the other ships and from it emerges the CyberSapian fleet. " Prepare to hail all ships within the area!" A drone begins typing away on a computer. Once communications have been made Commander Alpha addresses the other ships captains. "By order of the Neo-CyberSapian Council you all are to cease this battle or be forcibly removed from your pitiful existence!" He then says to the drones, "Prepare the RedPlasma Laser." A small sphere appears circling the ship it stops pointing directly towards the other ships. Energy begins flowing from the ship into the sphere and the sphere glows stronger and stronger red.
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Post by Dark Templar on May 2, 2014 18:35:43 GMT
"God, what in the hell are you? Not you split lip, I mean you, you bald bitch! I expected a beautiful young woman, not something like you, hell the mutilated dead body of the traitor downstairs looks better!" Siegmeyer said with a smirk from under his helmet, as he leaned back his chair a bit.
"Sir, enemy up front, appears to be charging a laser cannon. Shall I fire all cannons at the enemy, and ready our own shields?" Rei asked, hearing the sounds of multiple guns, and turrets adjusting to fire on the invading enemy, who demanded the end of the conflict.
"It would be my pleasure to let you wipe that ship from existence, Rei. May as well wipe away those damn scum, before they cause any trouble to us." Siegmeyer replied, watching as several rail guns, and exceptionally large plasma cannons all went off in unison. From a barrage like that, the enemy ship would likely take a damn battering.
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Post by spartaneternal on May 2, 2014 19:30:34 GMT
When the plasma got almost to the ship a large red barrier appeared taking the hot, shuttering and cracks appear in it, then it disappearing just like when it arrived. " I will not tolerate this act of war. Move all ships into broadside bombardment poisitions. Fire the RedPlasma laser if these pests have any shielding this will rip right through it in no time." The small sphere let out a massive beam of red energy hurtling towards the shop that opened fire.
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Post by SeizedChief on May 3, 2014 1:31:18 GMT
Voras was surprised to say the least, not after seeing the one called Ventress; but rather after seeing a child. The child looked like it was about to die, and he also saw a large creature behind her. Obviously not Human. His eyes snapped up to the view screen, and watched as a new flagship appeared. The other Humans looked confused after seeing the new arrival. Then the ship started charging its weapons... He looked back down at the holopanel, and noticed a communication from the vessel. He put it through, and the ship's feed joined the others on the console. The thing looked like another construct, and it's threat only amused Voras. He heard one of the Humans giving out orders to engage, and Voras watched as the ships clashed. It is not Human, in a time like this they would not be trying to kill it... Ventress finally spoke up, angered over the past comments of the other Humans. "All ships, turn and engage! Launch all bombers and destroy their little ball!" The CIS ships all turned, almost in unison, and began to fire their turbo lasers at the fleet. Spots appeared near the ships, and hundreds of Bombers were launched. "You dare attack the Covenant, construct?! Your fleet will burn for your impenitence, fool!" Voras shouted, and cut off communication with the spherical ship. The other Humans were still in communication though. "The Feet of Furious Retribution will rule this day!" Voras shouted, receiving a series of roars from the other Elites. "Move the Cruisers closer, and power up the bow energy projector. We shall destroy these vermin with cold efficiency." The fleet began moving forward, the Battlecruisers far ahead of the Carrier. They moved between the ships of the CIS and the ships of the other Humans. The vessels began to power and fire their plasma torpedoes, sending bulbs of purple at their new foe.
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