I totally don't walk for hours outside at night despite horrific allergies listening to music and hoping I don't suffocate to death before getting a tissue.
*cough*
Terrorist Attack! After the attack on the data archive, the Earth Alliance has increased security at all installations and an official investigation has begun. All officials suspect the Sarkazjhit, and this attack has fueled the war effort even more by giving what seems to be another example of barbarism.
EAS Gozwroth
"As you are neither enemy nor ally, we will allow you to go without paying for the damages caused. However, please be more careful in the future. We are transmitting our starmaps to you now in case you wish to avoid or contact us later. Also, please don't hit any more of our supply ships. Outpost DS-6 will have to wait for their water longer now. Best of luck."
Enemy Propaganda
In response to the lizard long range weapon, the Earth Alliance has begun experimenting with converting comms systems into weapons. The current idea is to create a wormhole right in front of the target, and to then fire a barrage of positron pulses into it, then promptly close it. However, another idea is to simply fire a projectile at relativistic speeds from a light year away and wait a year and a half for it to reach it's target.
EAS Gozwroth
"Captain, they're not slowing down and have not answered our comms."
"Transmit another message!."
"Yes captain, channel open."
"This is Captain of the Earth Alliance Patrol Ship Gozwroth, you have collided with one of our supply ships and are not responding to comms. From this, we have deduced that you are either simply ignoring us for some reason or use a significantly different code. You are heading into our core areas, it may interest you to know that we are currently at war. If you do not respond, we will be forced to tag you as a Sarkazjhit ship and open fire. Respond immediately!"
Sarkazjhit War
Suspecting the coordinates to be an enemy world, the Earth Alliance has prepared an extremely detailed short film. It shows a decimated city, the streets littered with dead bodies. A fleet can be seen in the sky, all of the ships human-designed. One of them launches a missile at the remains of the city, and the screen goes black. Then a message appears in white font against the black, in the Sarkazjhit language. Translated to English, it reads "Punishment will come."
Sarkazjhit War
The Earth Alliance fleet moves into a closer orbit of Domu, and the most heavily damaged ships move into orbital drydocks while the lesser damaged ships are repaired by nanobots. Meanwhile, code breakers and hackers have been sent down to the planet to search for any relevant data on the captured computer. Supply ships have begun warping into the system, delivering building supplies, negative energy, and food/water.
Equestrian Gift
The Earth Alliance has thanked the Equestrians for giving them the technology to wirelessly transmit electricity between star systems, and have begun building the infrastructure.
War over Domu
The Earth Alliance fleet was rocked with explosions despite the Equestrian shield. Hundreds of Attack ships were instantly destroyed by the blast, while the closest larger ships took extreme damage. All but one of the 1st fleet ships came in though a wormgate. The fleets kept firing into the series of explosions, making sure no Sarkazjhit survive the battle. Once the explosions stop, all observers are met with completely clean space, all debris destroyed entirely by the FPPCs and antimatter mines. The fleet regroups and begins licking it's wounds, and a message is transmitted to Domu.
"We ask that we may use your facilities for repairs, and that you transmit the location of the Sarkazjhit worlds to us if you posses that information."
At the same time, a message is sent to the Equestrian fleet.
"Once we have completed repairs, we are going to attack the Sarkazjhit planets themselves. We invite you to join us."
Sarkazjhit Patrol Fleet
After receiving word of the newly begun war, all EA guard ships have been sent to attack the Sarkazjhit fleet sent into Earth Alliance space to defend from pirates. They are incapacitating the ships, then boarding them and killing all the crew aside from the captain, whom they keep prisoner. The databanks are ransacked and combed for any technology or intel, most importantly the location of the homeworld and technical specifications.
Production
The Earth Alliance has begun to increase the output of starships, and have phased out the old Ares-Class warships in favor the Attack Ships and the Defiance-Class. Older ships not on duty have been called in to undergo refit and have crew rotations.
Kepler 22b Orbital Alpha, Control Room
The robotic avatar of Commander Kaowa sat in the central chair, trying not to think about how her Dolphin body was in a tank directly behind her avatar.
"Commander! Long range sensors have indicated an FTL collision between the Supply ship Grasberg and an unidentified starship! The Grasberg set off from the orbital tether here just a few hours ago, it was delivering building materials and water supplies to a small rimworld colony! We're getting distress messages from six ten-man escape pods, they had a crew of sixty. It can be assumed that the ship was struck in the cargo hold."
"Order patrol vessels after that ship and get a rescue team to those escape pods! Open a channel to the ship that collided with the Grasberg, and include a translation matrix!"
"Understood, channel open."
"I am Commander Kaowa of Earth Alliance Orbital Kepler 22 Alpha! You have collided with one of our supply ships, we understand that this was an accident but we ask that you pay for the materials that were lost. We also invite you to a diplomatic meeting with our people on the planet below this orbital, called Kepler 22b."
War over Domu
"This is what we call a Code Black Event, a war started because of religion. Our laws make our mission clear now, the Sarkazjhit will be punished for their evils though complete annihilation unless they stop this madness."
The Earth Alliance attack ships begin to swarm the Sarkazjhit ships, and they begin unleashing volleys of FPPC shots upon the enemy. Some of the newer Defiance-Class ships begin firing antimatter mines at the enemy ships, some causing flashes of light larger than the mother missiles. The crews fought with unprecedented vigor, with ships out of ammo using their exhaust as a weapon before ramming the enemy, sometimes they used their escape pods as missiles before that.
Pixie Contact
"We have reasons for calling ourselves inferior, but all I will say right now is that we judge superiority not by strength but by history and morals, suffice it to say that our history causes us to be extremely inferior. Anyways, we would be happy to begin trade on those terms. We don't have enough workers to keep up with our resource production, so this could become an incredibly beneficial relationship for both our peoples."
The intercom in the room suddenly turns on, something that is most definitely not supposed to happen during a diplomatic meeting. "Admiral! We have a Code Black Event sir! Orders?" "Do exactly what you're supposed to! Mobilize all ships but this one, we don't want to take a diplomatic party into that kind of a conflict!" "Yes sir! All ships reporting prepared for battle, they're going to do a wormgate jump from Sol!" "Good! And one more thing, alert the Equestrians." "Acknowledged!" The intercom turns off, and through the windows Earth Alliance ships can be seen entering the wormgate back to Sol. "I apologize for that interruption, an allied species is under attack at this moment. Due to the nature of the conflict, it is completely and entirely illegal for me to take you into the battle, because such battles end with many of our ships ramming the enemy after hitting them with our escape pods first. A normal battle would be dangerous enough, but the enemy is motivated in a way that will make them just as ruthless as our people. IS there anything else you wish to discuss?"
Transmission from Sol to Equiis "A species called the Hach are currently the victims of a religious crusade by a species called the Sarkazjhit. We request that you help us defend their world, as the goal of the Sarkazjhit is to completely anhilliate the Hach."
((Uhh... an Earth Alliance attack fleet threatens to destroy the Sazkarjhit and nobody cares?))
Domu, Code Black Event
The EA fleet transmits a message to the Hach.
"Why have they attacked you? The reason is extremely important to us, it will decide our actions."
EAS Boulet, Fleeing from Hach Space
"Captain, we have received a transmission from Earth Alliance command. They have identified the ships attacking the Hach."
"What species are they?"
"Sazkarjhit, we recently rescued one of the fleets from pirates. We don't know much about them, but the fleet we rescued was sent to protect us."
"They seem nice enough, so why attack the Hach? We have no evidence that they have wronged them."
"Perhaps they didn't."
"What do you mean?"
"They may not have been wronged by the Hach, perhaps they are acting on their version a sense that bears quite a weight in our history."
"You mean-"
"Code Black, divert course to the system that is under attack and prepare for battle. Arm all weaponry and be prepared to ram the enemy, send a message to all free fleets to divert to that system!"
"Aye Captain!"
EAS Justice, command ship of the Earth Alliance 2nd Fleet
It was a fairly normal day, nothing exiting was happening and everyone was generally enjoying themselves. Micrometeorite holes were being patched up, and the crew was acclimating to the first batch of Dolphin tactical specialists. It was strange to them to talk to a robotic avatar knowing it was being controlled by an aquatic being in the cargo hold. Some of the groups were just starting to get used to it when the lights went red and alarms began to blare. The intercom blasted a message at extremely high volume.
"Attention all Earth Alliance personnel, this is not a drill! Code Black! I repeat, Code Black! Prepare for wormgate transit, all fighter pilots are to enter their craft and all gunners are ordered to their turrets! It is our duty to help these people and make sure nobody has to experience what our ancestors did! Pro Redemptio!"
Everyone scrambled for their stations, and within minutes the fleet was able to create a wormhole to the target system.
Domu, Code Black Event
The Earth Alliance 2nd Fleet appeared in the skies of Domu, the FPPC turrets on the newer ships glowing with the positron buildup. Attack ship squadrons began to organize into their individual formations, and the fleet as a whole organized into Formation Cog, the multipurpose formation that combines strength in strategy and numbers. A message is sent to the Sazkarjhit and Hach.
"The Earth Alliance wishes to query on the nature of this war. We have designated this as a Code Black conflict and unless you prove otherwise it will be treated as such and the aggressor species will be anhilliated if they do not cease the attack. We will not permit the horrors of a Code Black conflict. This is very much a threat to the Sazkarjhit."
((Earth Alliance ships just hope they don't hit an unrecorded object, and they pretty much just smash head on into particles floating around in space. This usually results in minor to heavy damage on all ships not using a wormgate, and sometimes a couple ships might be destroyed. They simply don't have the ability to do anything else, the only way they could actively avoid a collision with Warp Drive would be if every ship had a navigator that could see the different possibilities of the future and pilot the ship accordingly.))
Search
The Earth Alliance has begun sending battle groups of 30 attack ships, ten Defiance-Class ships, and ten armed exploration ship variants out to search for the species that attacked the passenger liner SXS Frontier. All ships involved are doing constant FTL scans and sending out the following message along with a translation matrix.
"The attack on the passenger liner SXS Frontier will not be tolerated, if your species has performed this barbaric act, let it be known that we are now at war. We have battle groups searching for you, and once one of them finds you the rest will come. You will be faced with thousands of our newest ships, be very afraid."
((I just realized that I got the 1000th post.
YAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA HHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!))
Pixie Contact
"Not really, we're almost there anyways. However, I do wish to again express just how big of an honor this is. Every new contact is a chance to learn of a new culture, all of which we consider to be inevitably superior to our own."
They arrive at a huge door, and Fergus uses his miniature RCS pack to smash himself into the door control, opening it. The opening reveals a room, decorated lavishly with objects perfect for the small size of the Pixies. It would appear that great care had been taken in preparing the room, especially since the chairs have designs on them that would be quite literally impossible for someone of human size to create.
"I'm glad we don't put pain sensors on these things, anyways, I hope you find this comfortable. If you want anything we may be able to synthesize it, but if you want some of our food it might have a much more pronounced taste than usual if synthesized. Oh yeah, it seems that the translator is taking things to literally, the name of our homeworld means dirt, and the alternate name does too. I guess you could refer to us as 'The Inferior Ones', it's a common name for our people in some of the more recently founded religions."
Ambush
The human ship begins the starting sequence for its warp drive, and just before it escapes the battle it sends two messages. One to the Equestrians and one to the agressors.
To Equestrians:
"The crew of our ship, the SXS Frontier, thanks you for saving us and our passengers. You have saved many lives today, your actions will be commentated once we reach Alpha Ortels."
To aggressors:
"You should have done your research before attacking us, our people don't take kindly to attacks on passenger liners. I can assure you that you will soon face the full might of the Earth Alliance military. Hope you find us a worthy enemy, it would be a shame to disappoint."
0
*cough*
0
Oh...
Uh...
Oh god...
Keyguyperson: Professional Hobo has a nice ring to it, doesn't it?
I sure hope so.
0
Terrorist Attack!
After the attack on the data archive, the Earth Alliance has increased security at all installations and an official investigation has begun. All officials suspect the Sarkazjhit, and this attack has fueled the war effort even more by giving what seems to be another example of barbarism.
0
"As you are neither enemy nor ally, we will allow you to go without paying for the damages caused. However, please be more careful in the future. We are transmitting our starmaps to you now in case you wish to avoid or contact us later. Also, please don't hit any more of our supply ships. Outpost DS-6 will have to wait for their water longer now. Best of luck."
Enemy Propaganda
In response to the lizard long range weapon, the Earth Alliance has begun experimenting with converting comms systems into weapons. The current idea is to create a wormhole right in front of the target, and to then fire a barrage of positron pulses into it, then promptly close it. However, another idea is to simply fire a projectile at relativistic speeds from a light year away and wait a year and a half for it to reach it's target.
0
"Captain, they're not slowing down and have not answered our comms."
"Transmit another message!."
"Yes captain, channel open."
"This is Captain of the Earth Alliance Patrol Ship Gozwroth, you have collided with one of our supply ships and are not responding to comms. From this, we have deduced that you are either simply ignoring us for some reason or use a significantly different code. You are heading into our core areas, it may interest you to know that we are currently at war. If you do not respond, we will be forced to tag you as a Sarkazjhit ship and open fire. Respond immediately!"
((Pageclaim))
0
0
Suspecting the coordinates to be an enemy world, the Earth Alliance has prepared an extremely detailed short film. It shows a decimated city, the streets littered with dead bodies. A fleet can be seen in the sky, all of the ships human-designed. One of them launches a missile at the remains of the city, and the screen goes black. Then a message appears in white font against the black, in the Sarkazjhit language. Translated to English, it reads "Punishment will come."
0
The Earth Alliance fleet moves into a closer orbit of Domu, and the most heavily damaged ships move into orbital drydocks while the lesser damaged ships are repaired by nanobots. Meanwhile, code breakers and hackers have been sent down to the planet to search for any relevant data on the captured computer. Supply ships have begun warping into the system, delivering building supplies, negative energy, and food/water.
Equestrian Gift
The Earth Alliance has thanked the Equestrians for giving them the technology to wirelessly transmit electricity between star systems, and have begun building the infrastructure.
0
The Earth Alliance fleet was rocked with explosions despite the Equestrian shield. Hundreds of Attack ships were instantly destroyed by the blast, while the closest larger ships took extreme damage. All but one of the 1st fleet ships came in though a wormgate. The fleets kept firing into the series of explosions, making sure no Sarkazjhit survive the battle. Once the explosions stop, all observers are met with completely clean space, all debris destroyed entirely by the FPPCs and antimatter mines. The fleet regroups and begins licking it's wounds, and a message is transmitted to Domu.
"We ask that we may use your facilities for repairs, and that you transmit the location of the Sarkazjhit worlds to us if you posses that information."
At the same time, a message is sent to the Equestrian fleet.
"Once we have completed repairs, we are going to attack the Sarkazjhit planets themselves. We invite you to join us."
Sarkazjhit Patrol Fleet
After receiving word of the newly begun war, all EA guard ships have been sent to attack the Sarkazjhit fleet sent into Earth Alliance space to defend from pirates. They are incapacitating the ships, then boarding them and killing all the crew aside from the captain, whom they keep prisoner. The databanks are ransacked and combed for any technology or intel, most importantly the location of the homeworld and technical specifications.
Production
The Earth Alliance has begun to increase the output of starships, and have phased out the old Ares-Class warships in favor the Attack Ships and the Defiance-Class. Older ships not on duty have been called in to undergo refit and have crew rotations.
0
The robotic avatar of Commander Kaowa sat in the central chair, trying not to think about how her Dolphin body was in a tank directly behind her avatar.
"Commander! Long range sensors have indicated an FTL collision between the Supply ship Grasberg and an unidentified starship! The Grasberg set off from the orbital tether here just a few hours ago, it was delivering building materials and water supplies to a small rimworld colony! We're getting distress messages from six ten-man escape pods, they had a crew of sixty. It can be assumed that the ship was struck in the cargo hold."
"Order patrol vessels after that ship and get a rescue team to those escape pods! Open a channel to the ship that collided with the Grasberg, and include a translation matrix!"
"Understood, channel open."
"I am Commander Kaowa of Earth Alliance Orbital Kepler 22 Alpha! You have collided with one of our supply ships, we understand that this was an accident but we ask that you pay for the materials that were lost. We also invite you to a diplomatic meeting with our people on the planet below this orbital, called Kepler 22b."
0
"This is what we call a Code Black Event, a war started because of religion. Our laws make our mission clear now, the Sarkazjhit will be punished for their evils though complete annihilation unless they stop this madness."
The Earth Alliance attack ships begin to swarm the Sarkazjhit ships, and they begin unleashing volleys of FPPC shots upon the enemy. Some of the newer Defiance-Class ships begin firing antimatter mines at the enemy ships, some causing flashes of light larger than the mother missiles. The crews fought with unprecedented vigor, with ships out of ammo using their exhaust as a weapon before ramming the enemy, sometimes they used their escape pods as missiles before that.
Pixie Contact
"We have reasons for calling ourselves inferior, but all I will say right now is that we judge superiority not by strength but by history and morals, suffice it to say that our history causes us to be extremely inferior. Anyways, we would be happy to begin trade on those terms. We don't have enough workers to keep up with our resource production, so this could become an incredibly beneficial relationship for both our peoples."
The intercom in the room suddenly turns on, something that is most definitely not supposed to happen during a diplomatic meeting.
"Admiral! We have a Code Black Event sir! Orders?"
"Do exactly what you're supposed to! Mobilize all ships but this one, we don't want to take a diplomatic party into that kind of a conflict!"
"Yes sir! All ships reporting prepared for battle, they're going to do a wormgate jump from Sol!"
"Good! And one more thing, alert the Equestrians."
"Acknowledged!"
The intercom turns off, and through the windows Earth Alliance ships can be seen entering the wormgate back to Sol.
"I apologize for that interruption, an allied species is under attack at this moment. Due to the nature of the conflict, it is completely and entirely illegal for me to take you into the battle, because such battles end with many of our ships ramming the enemy after hitting them with our escape pods first. A normal battle would be dangerous enough, but the enemy is motivated in a way that will make them just as ruthless as our people. IS there anything else you wish to discuss?"
Transmission from Sol to Equiis
"A species called the Hach are currently the victims of a religious crusade by a species called the Sarkazjhit. We request that you help us defend their world, as the goal of the Sarkazjhit is to completely anhilliate the Hach."
0
Domu, Code Black Event
The EA fleet transmits a message to the Hach.
"Why have they attacked you? The reason is extremely important to us, it will decide our actions."
0
"Captain, we have received a transmission from Earth Alliance command. They have identified the ships attacking the Hach."
"What species are they?"
"Sazkarjhit, we recently rescued one of the fleets from pirates. We don't know much about them, but the fleet we rescued was sent to protect us."
"They seem nice enough, so why attack the Hach? We have no evidence that they have wronged them."
"Perhaps they didn't."
"What do you mean?"
"They may not have been wronged by the Hach, perhaps they are acting on their version a sense that bears quite a weight in our history."
"You mean-"
"Code Black, divert course to the system that is under attack and prepare for battle. Arm all weaponry and be prepared to ram the enemy, send a message to all free fleets to divert to that system!"
"Aye Captain!"
EAS Justice, command ship of the Earth Alliance 2nd Fleet
It was a fairly normal day, nothing exiting was happening and everyone was generally enjoying themselves. Micrometeorite holes were being patched up, and the crew was acclimating to the first batch of Dolphin tactical specialists. It was strange to them to talk to a robotic avatar knowing it was being controlled by an aquatic being in the cargo hold. Some of the groups were just starting to get used to it when the lights went red and alarms began to blare. The intercom blasted a message at extremely high volume.
"Attention all Earth Alliance personnel, this is not a drill! Code Black! I repeat, Code Black! Prepare for wormgate transit, all fighter pilots are to enter their craft and all gunners are ordered to their turrets! It is our duty to help these people and make sure nobody has to experience what our ancestors did! Pro Redemptio!"
Everyone scrambled for their stations, and within minutes the fleet was able to create a wormhole to the target system.
Domu, Code Black Event
The Earth Alliance 2nd Fleet appeared in the skies of Domu, the FPPC turrets on the newer ships glowing with the positron buildup. Attack ship squadrons began to organize into their individual formations, and the fleet as a whole organized into Formation Cog, the multipurpose formation that combines strength in strategy and numbers. A message is sent to the Sazkarjhit and Hach.
"The Earth Alliance wishes to query on the nature of this war. We have designated this as a Code Black conflict and unless you prove otherwise it will be treated as such and the aggressor species will be anhilliated if they do not cease the attack. We will not permit the horrors of a Code Black conflict. This is very much a threat to the Sazkarjhit."
0
Search
The Earth Alliance has begun sending battle groups of 30 attack ships, ten Defiance-Class ships, and ten armed exploration ship variants out to search for the species that attacked the passenger liner SXS Frontier. All ships involved are doing constant FTL scans and sending out the following message along with a translation matrix.
"The attack on the passenger liner SXS Frontier will not be tolerated, if your species has performed this barbaric act, let it be known that we are now at war. We have battle groups searching for you, and once one of them finds you the rest will come. You will be faced with thousands of our newest ships, be very afraid."
0
YAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA HHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!))
Pixie Contact
"Not really, we're almost there anyways. However, I do wish to again express just how big of an honor this is. Every new contact is a chance to learn of a new culture, all of which we consider to be inevitably superior to our own."
They arrive at a huge door, and Fergus uses his miniature RCS pack to smash himself into the door control, opening it. The opening reveals a room, decorated lavishly with objects perfect for the small size of the Pixies. It would appear that great care had been taken in preparing the room, especially since the chairs have designs on them that would be quite literally impossible for someone of human size to create.
"I'm glad we don't put pain sensors on these things, anyways, I hope you find this comfortable. If you want anything we may be able to synthesize it, but if you want some of our food it might have a much more pronounced taste than usual if synthesized. Oh yeah, it seems that the translator is taking things to literally, the name of our homeworld means dirt, and the alternate name does too. I guess you could refer to us as 'The Inferior Ones', it's a common name for our people in some of the more recently founded religions."
Ambush
The human ship begins the starting sequence for its warp drive, and just before it escapes the battle it sends two messages. One to the Equestrians and one to the agressors.
To Equestrians:
"The crew of our ship, the SXS Frontier, thanks you for saving us and our passengers. You have saved many lives today, your actions will be commentated once we reach Alpha Ortels."
To aggressors:
"You should have done your research before attacking us, our people don't take kindly to attacks on passenger liners. I can assure you that you will soon face the full might of the Earth Alliance military. Hope you find us a worthy enemy, it would be a shame to disappoint."