Notes
Ok so this here is only my second attempt at writing anything, and my first attempt at writing fan-fiction, well my first attempt that got past the thinking of ideas stage, so, be nice.
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Chapter 1, Prologue.
September 15th 2045
As Fleet Admiral Thomas Ericson pulled himself off of the bridge deck plating and back into his command chair, a trickled of blood ran down from his scalp and dripped into his mouth. The taste of his own blood jolted him back to awareness and out of his concussion induced stupor. He was about to call for a medic but a glance around his command deck told him his bridge crew needed help sooner than he did. The navigation section was in flames, he could see Lieutenant Christopher's body draped over one of the consoles while the flames consumed the remains of one of the Plertin members of the crew, probably Ensign Gretir, or Specialist Ilio.
Admiral Ericson's attention was caught by a Female Solon's approach, her suit was torn in several places and he could see the orange glow that emanated from her skin through the holes in her radiation suit, which meant he was currently absorbing lethal amounts of radiation. The Solon, who he recognized as Vice Captain Leridia came over and attempted to say something to him, but he couldn't make out what she was saying over that ringing sound that he had heard since he pulled himself of the ground.
The vice captain shook her head and then took a medical emergency pack from her belt, withdrew a nerve inhibitor spray, and injected into the admirals neck, within seconds the mix of painkillers and regenerative chemicals had started to do their work, numbing the admirals head, and oddly enough his right arm. Mercifully the ringing stopped and the admiral spared his arm a glance, only to see that it was clearly broken. His attention was again brought back to the Solon, since he could now hear what she was saying, although he was having a hard time with her accent.
"Aadmiraal, aare you aalright?"
With the pain killers working and the regenerative chemicals in his system he was hopefully not fatally injured, so he answered with an affirmative.
"Good, The Caaptiaan was killed in the laast baarrage, The naavaagaation section was destroyed, we aare rerouting it to the communicaations section, since we lost the comm. aarraay. We haave multiple hull breaaches, the staarboard missile laaucnhers aare offline….."
Admiral Ericson let the Vice Captain continue while he looked out of the main view screen, and the view was, disheartening. One of his escort ships, The ASN Stalking Spider, a Ruby Class battle cruiser was breaking apart under a barrage of energy and missile weapons being fired from 4 cruiser class enemy ships. His entire fleet formation was falling apart, the enemy fleet was slicing through his lines and were gunning right for his command ships, or to be exact, this ship.
"Aadmiraal aare you listening to me? We need to order a retreaat."
A quick glanced at the tactical battle map on his personal consoled verified what he had thought, the enemy fleet had completely surrounded his forces, if he ordered a retreat now he would be lucky if even one ship made it through. In fact, the odds are, that no matter what happens at this point, his entire fleet would be destroyed in about 30 to 90 seconds. At best he could draw his defeat out, and try to destroy as many enemy ships as possible.
"Vice Captain, which ship is the one that just shot at us?"
His request clearly caught the Solon Vice Captain off-guard, she stammered for a second before responding, "Thaat Cruiser aat 8.6 vector 13.1, distaance 250."
The Cruiser in question was a newer model, from what he could see it was a state of the art warship. This was probably its first battle. Admiral Ericson almost pitied it for a minute, such a beautiful and young ship, and he was about to destroy it, but then he remembered that that cruiser had effectively killed his own ship. He steeled his resolve and addressed the entire bridge crew,
"Tactical, Lock all weapons on that cruiser at 8.6 vector 13.1, the one that just shot us. If you can't get a lock due to their scrambling fields, then target manually, at this range we can't miss. Set the Barrier Lancer Missiles to fire 1 second after the main volley. No one, No one has ever gotten away unscathed after shooting at the ASN God Hammer."
A chorus of "Aye, Sirs!" were yelled while the remaining bridge crew went about preparing for the God Hammer's final attack.
"Fleet Aadmiraal, aare you sure thaat we should not aattempt to flee?"
"We would never make it, This was not a battle that we could ever win, this wasn't even a battle we could survive. We are only here to inflict as much damage upon their fleet as possible, We sacrifice ourselves to hurt them enough that they halt their advance . Our 420 ships versus their 780, and what have we done so far?"
"Aadmiraal, so faar we haave lost more than 200 ships, exact numbers aare not possible due to the interference from their scraambler fields. We haave confirmed the destruction of 21 of their ships, mostly the smaaller frigaates aand a few destroyers. The laargest ship we haave confirmed destroyed waas a short raange baattle cruiser."
"So not even one battle ship or dreadnought?"
"Aas I said, the scraambler field maakes it haard to aascertaain exaactly whaat's going on."
"I bet those numbers are accurate, although we probably lost more than those 200 ships so far. What about our Ace and Striker forces?"
"Likely Aannihilaated, aalong with our strike craaft. The enemies haave not used their Strike craaft, or their Striker forces, they are currently circling behind our fleet in an effort to cut off our escaape. However their Aace forces haave been used to greaat effect against us, no estimaates on their losses. "
"Hmm… Try to get a message through to any surviving ships, tell them to concentrate fire on the smaller ships, do whatever they can to destroy as much as possible, ram them, or even self destruct, do anything."
"Yes, Aadmiraal, I will see whaat I can do, however our comm. Aarraay is down, I am not sure-"
"ATTENTION ALL HANDS, BRACE FOR IMPACT, ENEMY TORPEDO VOLLEY INBOUND FROM THE STARBOARD SIDE,"
"Bring point defense online! Fire decoy pods! Evaasive Maaneuvers!"
"TORPEDOES NUMBER AT 52"
"Shit"
"IMPACT IN 3"
"Get the ECM up! Now!"
"2"
"Hold on!"
"1"
"Everyone brace for-"
"0"
As 52 Clarity heavy torpedoes impacted the ruined starboard missile launchers and then detonated into brilliant white explosions, they set off a chain reaction in the stored missiles in the launchers. Milliseconds after the white flash faded a second, much larger neon green burst erupted out of the side of the ASN God Hammer. The explosion tore the exterior starboard heavy beam cannon battery from the ship and sent it flying into the ASN Blood Hawk, a Topaz Class long range destroyer. The Battery lodged itself into the center of the ASN Blood Hawk, likely crushing its main energy core. And when the Energy stored in the generators and capacitors in the Heavy cannons overloaded and exploded, the ASN Blood Hawk disappeared in a massive explosion.
Ten seconds later, as the remains of the ASN Blood Hawk were raining across the ruined armor of the ASN God Hammer, Fleet Admiral Thomas Ericson, for the second time in 2 minutes, pulled himself off of the deck plating and back into his command chair. However this time the process took longer, and this time the admiral was aware of the reasons why. The nerve inhibitors automatically targets injured parts of the body, numb them, and begins repairs. The fact that half of the admiral's body was numb, and that the other half hurt meant that the inhibitor targeted the high priority injuries and then ran out of chemicals before it could work on the rest. And as he coughed up blood and labored to breath, Fleet Admiral Thomas Ericson knew he was dying.
As he sat in his command chair he surveyed his bridge, some of his crew were pulling themselves up and were trying to finish their tasks, but most stayed down. His eyes fell upon the form of Vice Captain Leridia. Her Radiation suit was now completely torn open and her bright orange blood was oozing out as she lie on the floor. With every breath she took, more of the glowing orange fluid bubbled out and the glow from her body dimmed. With shaking hands she reached into her jacket and withdrew a small picture. She managed a small smile before her hand went limp and she dropped the picture, she coughed lightly once, and then in the orange haze of her evaporating blood, she stopped moving.
The Admiral tore his eyes away before he could see what was in the picture. In a weak scruffy voice he addressed his crew,
"It was an honor serving with all of you. You are all the finest crew that the Allied States Navy has ever seen. Take these last few seconds to make peace with yourselves. "
And to the ship's DAI he said, "Reroute targeting and fire control to my console"
"CONFIRMED, ALL TARGETING AND FIRE CONTROL COMMANDS HAS BEEN REROUTED TO THE COMMAND CHAIR"
"Target all remaining weapons onto the coordinates that contain that cruiser."
"ADMIRAL, WITHOUT A PROPER TARGET LOCK, OR ANY MANUAL AIMING, I ESTIMATE THAT THE SALVO WILL ONLY HAVE A 62% ACCURACY RATING."
"That's more than enough, do it."
"YES SIR, WEAPONS ARE ARMED AND READY TO FIRE"
"Prepare to fire all weapons, place Barrier Lancer missiles on a one second delay…FIRE!"
Even with its entire starboard missile launcher array in ruins, and with the damage to the rest of the ship, the ASN God Hammer still belched forth 204 light Sprinter missiles, 26 Decoy missile pods, 88 Shield Slicer heavy missiles, and 40 Endgame torpedoes. In addition to the missiles, the 4 Heavy beam cannons on the Port battery let loose, firing 4 massive deep violet beams, that along with the 2 heavy cannons mounted on the fore battery and all of the minor batteries all over the ship, lit up the entire sector of space. One second later 56 Barrier lancer heavy missiles were added to the mix. 414 propellant trails along with their dimensional wakes mixed with over 1000 blue bolts of energy and swirled around the 6 violet heavy beams, it was actually quite a breathtaking sight to see as the wall of destruction raced towards the doomed cruiser.
Admiral Ericson ignored the spectacle, he was more concerned about how much of it would miss its target. Just moments after the Barrier Lancers had left the launchers the cruiser brought its midrange directional shield system online, a technology previously thought impractical due to its massive energy and computing requirements. The admiral watched as a relatively small yellow shield complete with its Mid-Childan double square within a circle overlapped by no less than 4 Belkan triangle arrays appeared directly in the path of one of the energy beams at a 80 degree angle.
Shields work by blocking and redirecting the energy that hits them, they absorb it, tame it, and then send it back the way it came. Directional shields do the same thing, except they send it off at an angle, in effect deflecting it. For a Directional shield of that size to be used in a battle like this requires massive amounts of computing power, power that a ship of that size, or any size, should not have.
But more troubling than the ability to quickly make a directional shield, is the ability to make them at range. Usually shields are only functional within a few meters of its point of origin, however this cruiser made a directional shield almost 2 kilometers in front of itself and was able to deflect a class S+ energy beam. The ASN God Hammer would have to reroute all power into the shield arrays to do that, and it would likely overload the arrays.
For this cruiser, a ship less than half the size of his own ship to do this was unthinkable. But while one of his energy beams was being deflected a second directional shield appeared and intercepted another beam, in the 3 seconds it should have taken for his beams to reach the enemy ship, the small round shields intercepted and deflected 4 of his 6 beams harmlessly away from the cruiser and into his own escort ships. And the remaining 2 were not on collision courses; they missed by a wide margin. The cruiser had completely negated a point blank attack from some of the most powerful naval weapons in the Allied States Navy, and managed to damage his own fleet in the process.
As the admiral cursed silently to himself he was also made aware of another disheartening fact, that while it was creating the directional barriers, it was also firing its point defense weapons. The cruisers own bolts of brown energy mixed with his own blue bolts. As the space between to 2 ships exploded into action the admiral saw that in addition to standard point defense, the enemy ship also had advanced decoy pods and ECM. He watched as his missiles raced after glowing decoy pods falling away from the ship, or their guidance systems were hacked and re-targeted against the ruined hull of the ASN Stalking Spider. But the admiral was still confident, even with the amount of missiles being taken out, the remaining ones would still deal massive damage to the ship, and the Barrier Lancers, missiles designed to bypass Barriers, were virtually untouched by the Point Defense, that cruiser would be destroyed.
Then, as the missile volley closed in on the enemy warship, it released a brilliant flashing ball of what appeared to be pure electricity. The blue and yellow ball appeared to have formed right off of the side of the ship and then was launched towards the missiles. As it made its approach, it broke down into bolts of lightning, arched out, and sliced into the missiles, then jumped from one missile into others. For one split second a web of electricity connected over 100 missiles of various forms, and then all at once, the web exploded.
Admiral Ericson was speechless, not even the directional shields had stunned him as much as that had. This experimental weapon, it had to be, was nothing he had ever seen before. This weapon would be devastating against strike craft and any mages that would get caught in the blast radius. The power levels to form pure electricity in space like that must have been astronomical.
As his shock wore off he was pleased to see that although that weapon had destroyed a large chunk of his missiles, about 1/3 of them were still on-course, and would impact the enemy vessel in about 3 seconds.
And in exactly 3 seconds 97 missiles of various class slammed into the defensive barriers of the enemy cruiser, followed a second later by 49 Barrier Lancer heavy missiles. As the first wave of missiles exploded the enemy ship was obscured by the massive explosions all over its fore and starboard sides. Large black dimensional vibrations from the Endgame Torpedoes mixed with the greenish glow from the sprinter missiles while blue-green flashes from the Shield Slicers were visible through the smoke and debris. Then the Barrier Lancers cut through the explosions and slammed into the ships barrier before they began drilling through. Once they made an opening they opened up and released their true ordinance, a smaller, high yield Spring Rocket.
As the cloud dispersed and the explosions faded, Admiral Ericson was once again in awe of the abilities of this ship. Its barriers were clearly worst for wear, they flickered on and off and were visibly thinner than they were before, but they were clearly still there. Underneath the few holes that were made in the barriers, the ships armor was scorched and broken, but still holding. There were no hull breaches, no damage to critical components, in fact there was no real damage at all. He was pretty sure his own ship would have taken catastrophic damage from that attack, and the ASN God Hammer is roughly twice its size.
As Admiral Ericson marveled at the near indestructible warship, the ship in question maneuvered to face the God Hammer. After the ship lined up, it began charging its weapons in an effort to finish the God Hammer. As the energy gathered in the weapons, the admiral could see the burgundy glow as it prepared to fire, he counted 16 guns, likely heavy cannons, 6 on each arm, and 4 in the central command unit.
"What's the name of that ship?"
"TARGET IS A XV CLASS CRUISER NAMED, THE CLAUDIA."
"Claudia, huh? Sounds kind of weak to be a warship, but I guess that can be deceiving."
At that point the Claudia fired its heavy cannons, the deep burgundy beams sliced through the space between the two ships, slammed into the ASN God Hammer, and then released its dimensional energy into the hull of the god Hammer. Instead of a massive explosion like one would expect, the energy from these weapons causes the molecular bonds that form between atoms to break apart, in effect, every part of the ASN God Hammer that was hit with this energy, reverted to hydrogen gas. With the uncontrolled fires inside of the ship the hydrogen gas ignited. Where the ASN God Hammer once stood, a rapidly expanding cloud of fire had taken its place.
As his ship disintegrated and burnt around him, Admiral Ericson realized he was moments from death. Instead of having his life flash before his eyes, he was overcome with sorrow and guilt. The God Hammer had been the flag ship of the Allied States Navy for over 450 years. She had been retrofitted and upgraded more times than he could count, she had been damage and repaired, fallen into enemy hands and then recaptured, she was even sold once and then bought back at 5 times the price. She had served on the front lines throughout four major inter-dimensional conflicts, she had proved instrumental during the Ares incident, had helped evacuate refuges from the Norse cluster when their sun went nova. This ship had seen so much, done so much, received so much fame and honor. And under his watch it was going to be destroyed, vaporized. There would be nothing left of her. She would be killed by this ship, the Claudia, a ship half its size, a ship a fraction of its age, with none of its history or dignity.
As Fleet Admiral Thomas Ericson continued his train of thought, the disintegration effect reached the bridge. Admiral Ericson and the rest of his crew were quickly engulfed in a sea of flames as the ASN God Hammer, after 467 years of active services disappeared in a ball of fire.
Five dimensional miles away, on a large manufacturing star base orbiting Taleron Prime, a small gas giant, 3 men, 1 woman, and 1 Shahken inhabiting a male body stood around a tactical battle map. As the glowing symbol that represented the ASN God Hammer winked out of existence, the 5 beings, all wearing the insignia of Fleet admiral, stopped what they were doing and sat down. As the remaining 33 symbols that represented the remainder of the fleet winked out one after another the room became silent. The 5 fleet admirals and all of their attendants stood motionless and silent.
Finally, one of the males spoke up,
"Do you, do you think there were any survivors?"
No one responded to him, and after a few seconds he answered himself.
"No, I guess not."
Some of the attendants began continuing their previous tasks. They brought reports and updates to the fleet admirals. After viewing a report the female addressed her colleague.
"We need to evacuate. Worst case scenario, their faster ships could be here within 2 hours, or their entire fleet could make orbit in 6."
"Agreed. We must leave this area. Fleet Admiral Ericson took all of the ships to stop them, seeing as he failed, we will not be able to mount a defense at this location, we need to fall back to Oridian, with its fortifications we should be able to regroup."
After it finished speaking Fleet Admiral Weurkin, a Shahken, a mass of parasites that can control bodies with a hive mind, stood up and began to leave.
As fleet admiral Weurkin started to leave, Fleet admiral Sonya Lisanto began packing up her belongings, however they both halted when the first man to speak, Fleet Admiral Vincent Cool cleared his throat and began to speak again.
"Maybe we should, you know, offer to surrender?"
Fleet Admiral Hiroshi Siato, a human of Asian descent, who suffered severe burns over his entire body responded in his mechanical voice.
"Since hostilities broke out 3 months ago, we have had zero diplomatic contact, they refuse our envoys, they do not ask for terms or give quarter, there is nothing to indicate that they would accept our surrender. Furthermore we don't even know how to-"
Admiral Siato was cut off by the 5th person slamming his fist into the table. Fleet Admiral Hans Gregorvich was a large burly man and as his hand hit the table a loud thud echoed throughout the room.
"Cool, I always knew you were a coward, but not this much of one."
As he stood to his full height of 6'1 he dominated the small room.
"The Allied States has existed for over 700 years and we have never surrendered to anyone. No matter how bad the situation has gotten, the Allied States has never fallen. NEVER! To surrender now would be the greatest insult to every generation of Allied State citizens and military. We will Regroup and hold them off until our allies can mobilize their forces and come to our aid. As long as one out of the 5 of us still lives, we can still win, Do you hear me? There will be no more talk of surrender, we will stand firm, and we will not bow to the unchecked aggression of the TSAB! Understood?"
As the other fleet admirals nodded their agreement, they all began making their way to the few remaining vessels that would allow them to escape to Oridian to regroup. They walked in silence, not once mentioning the 330,000 refuges that they would be abandoning on this space station.
Ten minutes later, as the people left behind on the station realized their situation, the Fleet Admirals, the heads of the Allied States Navy, debarked on the few remaining military vessels. The 6 ships began the 20 minute journey to exit the planets gravity well so that they could enter the Dimensional Sea and make their escape to the naval base at Oridian. The 6 ships, 5 frigates and 1 destroyer, were then joined by 2 more ships, both frigates, operating under the most powerful stealth fields available. The ships bore the call names Io and Dre, and under their names were the words, "146th Striker Company, Black Shadows"
The 2 ships took flanking positions around the convoy. After they got into position the mechanical hatches opened and revealed their hangers to the cold void of space. And in each hanger, both on the Io and the Dre, 60 men and women of various species stood at the ready. They were dressed in suits of darkest black, not a single spot of any other color was on them, against the unlit hanger bays they were nearly invisible. Behind them a single red light came on. A second passed, the light turned yellow, another second and the light turned green. then all at once, 120 members of the 146th Striker company launched themselves out of the hangers and towards the convoy carrying the leaders of the Allied States Military. As they approached the ships that contained the 5 fleet admirals, against the blackness of space, they truly were invisible.
And minutes later, space was alight with bright rainbow flashes that could only be magic based reactor cores detonating.
Six of them.
Chapter Glossary
Plertin-
Alien Race notable for having 4 long tentacle arms that reach to their feet. Each arm ends with 2 fingers and a thumb.
Plertins make decent mages as almost all of them are ranked at C Class. However there is almost no variations in that, they almost never go higher or lower.
Other than that they are similar to humans. Their skin tones range in the dark brown to gray, and are hairless.
Solon-
Alien Race, similar to humans in almost all ways besides one, their core temperature reaches over 400 degrees and their blood is highly radioactive. The heat and radioactivity causes their bodies to glow, usually an orange but sometimes a yellow or dark red.
Solons have to wear special radiation suits so that they don't kill other creatures near them, and also so that their heat doesn't burn or ignite things near them.
A solons skin is semi transparent, but under the glow you can't see anything, only after death can you tell what they look like.
Allied States Navy-
Also called the ASN. The main military body of the Allied states, their ground forces are called the ASM, or Allied States Marines, and are considered to be a sub section of the navy.
The ASN is extremely regimented and well ordered, corruption is minor and they boast a robust military industry. Their ships are up to inter-dimensional technological standards.
The ASN names their ship classes after precious gems, Topaz, Ruby, Emerald, ect
Ship Sizes-
Strike craft- 1-2 man fighter and bomber craft.
Corvette- Smaller ship with a crew of 20-40, lightly armed and armored. Used for scouting, police uses, and light transport duty. Also the size of most civilian owned freighters
Frigate- Small Combat Ship with a crew of around 100. Smallest ship that is usually used in battles.
Destroyer- Main line midsized Warship with a crew of around 250, usually makes up around 40-70% of a fleet.
Cruiser- Mid Sized ship with a crew of around 400, roughly the same basics as a destroyer but uses the extra space to specialize in various fields, anti strike craft, command, ect
Battle Cruiser- Large Ship with a crew around 600. Has the same amount of weapons as a battleship but much less defenses, compensates with much greater speed
Battle Ship- Large Ship with a crew of around 850, Basis of space based warfare. Good Armor, good Weapons, Decent speed
Dreadnought- Massive ship with a crew of around 1200. Many Heavy Weapons, great Defense, and poor speed.
XXXXXX
Excluding strike craft and XXXXXX class vessels, ships are usually about 50% larger than a ship of a smaller class. So a frigate is 50% larger than a Corvette. Also a ship two classes larger is usually about twice as large, so 2 destroyers have the same mass as one battle cruiser.
Note, the ASN God Hammer is a battleship.
Coordinates-
Location of a target based of the ship its being viewed from. 2 ships side by side would have slightly different readings for the same object because they're not seeing it from the same spot.
Knowing how they work isn't important. There is a science behind it but it makes no difference.
Barrier Lancer Missiles-
Missiles Designed by the Irlian Empire and sold to almost all inter-dimensional militaries. Long Range heavy missiles that are tipped with a drill designed to drill through barriers, or to a certain degree, armor. After the drill pierces the barrier it pops off of the missile and from the opening a short range high yield spring missile fire out. In effect the main missile breaks the barrier and then shots a second missile through the opening.
Strikers-
Mage special forces. They are much more powerful than standard combat mages, have their own Devices and operate in squads with other strikers. A striker is not as powerful as an Ace. Even though some Strikers might be ranked higher than some Aces, an Ace focus on combat while a Striker focuses on other things such as, recon, communications, stealth, espionage, interrogation, deception, tracking, diplomacy, sabotage, ect.
About 1 in every 5000 people ever becomes a Striker, but due to their nature strikers, at least ones that focus in the black ops, are usually hidden from the public.
Strikers are organized into companies and are usually deployed in squads or even platoons.
Aces-
Elite combat Mages.
Aces are usually ranked around A class, a few are as low as B class and they can rise up to AAA+. Aces that raise to around the AAA class marker and who have showcased their strengths enough are considered to be Ace of Aces, so there can be a power level overlap.
Aces are Mages that focus almost exclusively on combat potential, they usually forgo other auxiliary skills such as stealth, communications, recon, or miscellaneous utility skills.
Aces are considered by Ground Force Strategic Command to be in equal strength as a battalion (1000 men) or for the stronger aces, as a Brigade (4000 Men). Naval Strategic Command Counts them as Frigates or Destroyers based on their strengths.
Aces are usually organized into Corps consisting of 20 to 45 Aces.
Aces are considered to be one of the most valuable military assets do to their extreme power and small sizes, a squad of aces can be quietly deployed to a planet where as 5 battalions of soldiers or 5 frigates could not be. The only things more valuable than an ace are certain advanced warships, Experimental tech and super weapons, and Ace of Aces.
Only 1 person in 1 million has the potential to become an Ace, most never reach that potential.
Space Combat-
Most Space Combat is Ship to Ship, however ground forces can attempt to board enemy ships but it almost never works.
Almost all Strikers and around half of all Aces, and even Some Ace of Aces, are not able to fight in space without environmental suits. The suits are fragile and tears will kill the mage inside. They also limit attack power do to dangers of excessive recoil, and reduce speed due to friction concerns. Also space junk presents a dangerous obstacle.
However Strikers and Ace, can be used to board enemy vessels. They can also get onto of a vessel and target its critical components, such as engines, the bridge, and weapons.
Mages capable of space combat without Environmental suits become deadly forces to be dealt with. Their small profiles and maneuverability make them extremely hard to hit, and inside of a battle their tiny heat signals and their lack of electronic signals allows them to hide.
Torpedo-
Torpedoes are much, much larger than missiles, have guidance systems and can often travel through dimensions. Can range any were from about the size of a bus to the size of a jumbo jet (minus the wings, sometimes) they contain a massive amount of destructive potential
Energy Beams-
Beams of energy, Phasors, lasers, Divine Buster. Energy Beams are a wave of energy that comes from an origin point and then moves outward towards its target. When the origin point stops releasing energy the beam stops.
Beams do not always go in strait lines.
Ship Directions-
When facing forward,
Starboard=Right
Port=Left
Aft=Rear section of the ship, inside of the ship.
Stern=Behind the ship
Fore= In front of the ship
Device AI / DAI-
Device with an AI installed. Since the complexity of the AI requires a higher grade device, Device AI's are not given to normal combat mages. Strikers get their own DAI's but they are basic ones. Aces usually custom make their own. DAI can be upgraded and learn to work with their partners, to increase their powers. Certain older DAI are technically considered Lost Logia
Missiles-
Rocket propelled guided ordnance with a warhead inside of it. Missiles range in size from as small as a 2 liter soda bottle to as large as car.
Energy Bolts-
Similar to beams, disrupters, blasters (starwars), however bolts lack the power of beams and almost always fly strait. The main difference being that the bolt is released from its origin point before it hits the target, or misses. Therefore a mage or ship can fire bolts and then move, or fire at other targets, or at the same one.
Shields-
The flat circle defenses that the mages create in the anime. Shields absorb the energy and then redirect it backwards. They function like mirrors, reflecting the energy off their surfaces. The larger the magical array is inside of a shield the more effective the shield is, but the more strain it puts on the user.
Shields block all damage, a person defended by a shield takes no damage from anything that hits the shield, but if the shield is overwhelmed then it breaks and provides no protection. Also when the shield breaks it sends a feedback pulse into the user which can injure and stun mages, and can overload the shield arrays on a ship.
Shields are particularly effective against explosives, missiles or energy balls that explode on contact. Even if the attack overloads the shield and destroys it, the energy from the attack is still wasted. Even the weakest shields can block missiles as long as they are created far enough away, however that is difficult. Creating any kind of defense further away from the user becomes much harder.
Directional shields-
Shields set to intercept an attack at an angle. Instead of redirecting the energy back into the attack it sends it off in a different direction. This is to help counter the shields weakness against beam weapons, but it is extremely hard to do correctly, if the angle is off the attack will slide off but still hit the user, and if the angle isn't strong enough it reflects a fraction of the attack into itself at an odd angle, which usually causes an explosion that destroys the shield.
Directional shields are particularly useful against single small attacks that are designed to penetrate inside of the target, before detonating, the energy bolts or balls just slide off of the shield. Used by Nanoha to block Fate's attacks in season one ep 11, just before she shoots off Phalanx Shift.
Directional shields are usually only used by experts and only when you have time aim up the shield against the attacks.
Mid-Childan Array-
Mid-Childan arrays consists of a single circle inside of 2 squares that rotate in opposite directions, the points of the squares then connect to another larger circle. A Mid-Childan array can be powered up by adding extra Squares, increasing the incantations wrapped around it, or as an advanced technique, adding secondary arrays onto the points of the squares, the array must maintain its symmetry so you must add at least 2 additional arrays on the sides.
Note. According to modern research, Mid-Childan arrays channel magic in a different way than the their Belkan counterparts, and thus, they cannot be effectively combined, any power gain if offset by the massive losses needed to reconvert the energy between the two arrays.
Belkan Arrays-
Belkan Arrays consist of a large triangle with a cross in center of it, on the points triangle circle arrays form along with the incantations. To increase the power of an array the user can increase the size of the circle arrays, increase the size of the cross and its incantations, increase the incantations, or place additional arrays inside of the circles connected to the triangle points.
Note. According to modern research, Belkan arrays channel magic in a different way than the their Mid-Childan counterparts, and thus, they cannot be effectively combined, any power gain if offset by the massive losses needed to reconvert the energy between the two arrays.
Point Defense-
Usually Guns of some form, but sometimes missiles, or even flak, can function as a point defense weapon. Point defense are rapid firing weapons that do light damage and have good tracking abilities. Their purpose is to shoot down really small targets that approach a ship, Missiles, torpedoes, and rockets, along with strike craft, and mages. Point defense is usually not powerful enough to be an effective offensive weapon, however against much smaller ships or at point blank range(Literally the ships need to be right next to each other) they can be a semi effective weapon.
Barriers-
Barriers are the dome shaped Defensive fields that mages and ships can create for defense. Barriers usually encase the target in a protective field, however if energy is an issue, or if a stronger barrier is need they can be set to face a direction.
Barriers do not block all damage like a shield does; instead they mitigate the damage received by a set amount. This is an oversimplification, but it will help to understand. Barriers have 2 strength ratings, the first is an overall strength rating, anything that overcomes that tears a hole in the barrier the more it beats that the larger the whole. The damage against that number is cumulative, so 4 attacks in the same spot add up, but barriers do regenerate over time, and that regeneration is a large part of barriers.
The second number is the mitigation amount. In effect that number is subtracted from the attack, if this reduces the attack to 0 or less than no damage is dealt, if it doesn't reduce it to 0, then any leftover passes through the barrier and harms the target.
As the barrier takes more and more damage the amount it can mitigate decreases. Its semi rare for a barrier to consistently block all damage from an attack. Barriers are used with armor, they decrease the damage dealt and then the armor absorbs the rest.
Barriers do best against beam weapons since they deal their damage over time, and the barrier can regenerate during that time. Were as a missile or energy ball attack is a single hit and then it releases all of its energy.
Armor-
A physical material placed over something to protect it, may or may not be used in tandem with a Field.
Armor ranges from simple leather jackets to full plate mail. On a ship it can be simple Iron plating, or something as advanced al ablative polarized ceramic plating, titanium alloys, reactive armor, or adamantine.
A Mage's Barrier Jacket is technically armor even though it's not a real material and is created by magic.
Claudia-
An advanced TSAB cruiser once, and possibly still, armed with an Arc-En-Ciel cannon. Was commanded by Admiral Crono Harlaown during the Jail Scaglietti incident.
Shahken-
Alien Race, Shahkens are a massive of parasitic worms that when properly nourished (inside of a dead body) are able to channel small amounts of mana to create a hive mind like conscious. The hive mind has only the most limited intelligence but the parasites are able to control the body with it.
In the event that the parasites inhabit a body with a linker core, they can use the mana from the core to enhance their hive mind, when inhabiting a powerful mage's body they can gain enough intelligence to be considered completely sentient. If the core is strong enough they can use it to regenerate the body back to a life like state, in which case they can cast spells as a mage of the same level as their host, they even gain rudimentary knowledge of all of the magical training the host body had.
Dimensional Seas-
Grouping of Sub Dimensions that boarder all other dimensions, is essentially the area between dimensions. Time flows about 300% faster in the dimensional seas as it does on 99% of other dimensions. Also the dimensional seas have "currents" that accelerate things that enter them. Inter-dimensional travel is conducted through the currents, allowing extremely fast movement over long distances. Also since time flows faster in the Seas, ships can cover great distances in minor amounts of observed time, but the ship will still experience the time. A 6 month trip through the seas will only take 2 months for those not on the ship.
Fields-
Basically Enchantments. Fields are anything that enhances the target. Examples of fields seen in the show would be, flight, sonic move, increased defense, increased strength, ect. Mages are not just automatically super strong or durable; fields are what allow them to handle getting shot with an attack that destroys buildings without being torn to pieces.
Fields are used by all mages in combination with armor, shields, and barriers. Besides armor which is granted by the device, fields are one of the first thing a mage learns. Without a strengthen field Mages wouldn't be able to handle the recoil from their own attacks.