Milky Way Galaxy
Ancera System
Orbit above Vuoyama
U.S.S. Armageddon
6:56 PM
September 26th
2557 C.E.
Johnathan Reed looked down upon the blue marble that was Vuoyama from the window in his quarters, admiring the sight for as long as he could until he had to report to the War Room to prepare for the final assault that would finally end this damn war that had gone on for far too long. Vuoyama, the world Johnathan was currently admiring from the sight out his window, was the homeworld of the Saqek species. They are a peaceful aquatic, yet humanoid species that had a small Republic that spanned over 100 light-years...until the Xyzox came and took that all away from them.
Vuoyama was one of the first targets to be hit and conquered by the Xyzox in the beginning of the war. At first the war started off as nothing but a small issue that everyone believed the surrounding empires could easily take care of, the Xyzox were nothing but a hive mind lead by a crazy psychopathic mushroom, right? That's what everyone thought at first, but oh god were they wrong, because within only a few months, thousands of systems were taken and annexed by the Xyzox, destroying all other life in their path. Not even the young civilizations were safe from the Xyzox's wrath, as they invaded their world's and threw every single living thing into extinction, including the intelligent species that dominated the planet. The Xyzox were a hive mind fungoid race that were under absolute control of their queen, which explains why they were so relentless and unmerciful towards other living things.
In about 3 months, the Xyzox controlled over 9,000 light-years and had caused many species to flee their space and retreat into other species space, and had caused the extinction of many other races. They were expanding at an absolutely insane rate, and nobody knew how they were doing it, because all the people that usually encountered a Xyzox, never lived to tell the tale. At this time, on the date January 12th, 2436, a coalition was made by hundreds of neighboring Republics, Empires, Federations, etc that were close to Xyzox space, that had put there rivalries and differences behind them to defeat the Xyzox, although they were never prepared for the technological advantage the Xyzox had over them.
The only reason the Xyzox manged to cause a galactic war that has lasted for over a century is because of there shielding technology. Their shielding seem almost indestructible, taking about 10 11 kiloton nukes to disable the shield, and all their troops, fighters, ships, and pretty much all of there military were equipped with this shielding. Of course 10 11 kiloton nukes doesn't sound so bad, well the shielding on their ships only got worse, taking about 40 500 Megaton nukes to just disable one shield.
It's still unknown to this day how they managed to get this technology and advance so quickly in the process, because it seemed like they were in a video game, cheating in the greatest technologies and weapons in the universe. Their rapid technological progress and insane territorial gains shocked the entire galaxy to it's core. In about another month, the Xyzox had successfully taken control of over 11,000 light-years, and this is when the galaxy realized that the Xyzox threaten every living thing the galaxy and perhaps even beyond, and with that the galaxy united in one giant alliance to destroy the Xyzox. This is pretty much all the Alliance knows about the Xyzox, they're still a huge mystery that people have been wanting an answer too for generations, but no one could find a direct answer. All the Alliance knows is the Xyzox's war crimes and where their home system is located, which is located near the very edge of the Scutum-Centaurus Arm.
For the next 30 years it would be nothing but victory after victory for the Xyzox, which now controlled over 60,000 light-years, over half the galaxy. But eventually the war turned around when scientists made the final breakthrough with there shielding tech, making there shielding just like any other. When the Xyzox finally reached Earth, they were greeted with a big surprise when they found out that there shields were being easily penetrated, and the battle was an easy win for the Alliance, but it was celebrated much more then just a victory.
For the next 91 years, the Xyzox were finally officially being pushed back, and the only reason they lasted so long was due to there gargantuan amount of troops and ships. Eventually they were pushed back to two systems, the Ancera system, and there home system of Orellius, and only two days ago the Battle of Vuoyama took place, which was a victory for the Alliance, and now the Xyzox had been pushed back to their home system. Although recently, a shocking revelation was made on the battlefield, the Xyzox have begun abducting alliance soldiers and basically assimilating them into there hive mind for more manpower, which brought high concern among the alliance. The way they got other species into there hive mind reminded Johnathan highly of the Borg from the sci-fi series named Star Trek, implanting machines and ton of different mechanisms into them.
Johnathan then heard a beeping sound coming from his laptop on his desk, which was an alert that he had received a notification. Johnathan backed away from the sight of the blue marble below before turning around completely to walk towards his laptop. Johnathan pulled out the chair near the desk and sat in it. He then moved his finger around the touch pad, making the laptop's screen come back on a second later. Johnathan very much preferred the style of laptops when you can actually touch and feel ACTUAL buttons over the touch screens and hardlight ones.
As the screen turned back on, the thing that was presented in front of him was a log in screen to sign into his laptop. John positioned his hands over the keyboard, and then began typing in his username and password at incredible speeds. Once he finished doing that, he was now logged into his laptop, and with that he moved his finger across the touch pad which moved the cursor across the screen towards the notifications tab. But before he could even click on the notifications tab, a beeping alert sound came from a small slot on his forearm.
Johnathan directed his attention away from the laptop and towards his arm, lifting it up towards him. As he positioned it towards his face, he pressed a button on the side of his forearm which caused the slot on his forearm to open up to reveal a small projector. With the slot opened he presses another button on the side of his arm, which then causes the projector to project his H.C.P., or the Hardlight Computer Projection. With the blue hardlight now projecting from the projector, Johnathan slide his finger across the hardlight, which then lead the screen towards his notifications. There was one notification in his notifications and it was labeled Top Priority. Johnathan pressed the message to open it, and the message was saying that it was time to report to the war room. Johnathan immediately closed his H.C.P. and then closed the slot on his forearm by pressing the same button and then he stood up.
"Right, let's do this." Johnathan spoke to himself as he then made his way towards his door.
Milky Way Galaxy/Ancera System/Orbit above Vuoyama/U.S.S. Armageddon/7:23 PM/September 26th/2557 C.E.
"And then after that, you will storm into the capital city, kill the queen, and then that should finally end the war once and for all." Captain Jefferson Andrews finished explaining the battle plans to assault the Xyzox homeworld of Xuwhypso to everyone in the room. "Now, Commander Reed will be leading the ground assault on Xuwhypso, he's one of the Alliance's best commanders, and right now we need the best leading."
"Hey Captain?" Johnathan called out Jefferson from across the large circular table which had a blue holographic display of Xuwhypso with many strategic plans on it, with a huge grin on his face.
"Is there a problem Commander? And you mind telling me why you have a huge damn grin on your face son?" Captain Andrews asked Johnathan with a raised eyebrow, as his comment now brought the attention of everyone in room towards John.
"I ain't doing shit until you say the magic word." Johnathan announced to Jefferson sarcastically, as he spoke with a southern accent.
Johnathan's joke earned some chuckles and laughs out of the crowd that surrounded the war table, and earning a rolling of eyes from Jefferson. "Please?" Jefferson asked John in a kind tone, going along with the joke.
"There you go, that wasn't so hard was it?" John asked Jefferson in a joking matter. But then the sounds of the sliding doors behind Johnathan opening brought everyone's attention towards the entrance to the War Room, and there everyone saw Ship Master Narrise Hoymuquar entering the war room.
"Ship Master on deck!" Johnathan shouted out to everyone else in the room, as he entered a serious attitude and saluted the Ship Master, as everyone else then followed except Jefferson.
Narrise Hoymuquar was a female Saqek, she was responsible for creating the plans that would lead millions of starship that we're made by thousands of other species to assault the Xyzox homeworld, a menace that the galaxy has suffered too much from. But of course she didn't do it alone, she had the help from many different Commander's, Captain's, Admiral's, and General's to plan this assault to near perfection, and the plans we're certainly one hell of an achievement. Narrise walked past the saluting men and women from all different types of species with pride and a smile, as she nodded towards them, making her way towards Jefferson. After walking past all the saluting men and women, she approached Jefferson with a smile full of many different positive emotions.
"Captain." Narrise announced Jefferson's rank in her soothing voice, as she finished approaching him.
"Ship Master." Jefferson responded to Narrise, as he then saluted her.
Narrise then saluted Jefferson back before continuing. "Are you ready to bring the might of the galaxy to bear on the Xyzox?" Narrise asked Jefferson in a proud tone, as she then dropped her salute.
"Yes ma'am." Jefferson declared, dropping his salute and then shaking Narrise's hand, which had webbed fingers due to her aquatic nature, making the handshake a little awkward.
"Then let's make sure the fleets are ready." Narrise told Jefferson, as she then walked over to the front of the war table that had the holographic display of Xuwhypso floating above it.
A human female officer next to the two commanding officers, turned around and began typing on a computer next to the war table, sending out a signal to the fleets and awaiting there response. Soon the holographic display of Xuwhypso was replaced with a display of the Milky Way, as many millions of yellow dots began appearing in the galaxy around the Orellius system.
"All fleets reporting in ma'am." The officer announced to Narrise.
"Open a channel to the fleets, and make sure you enable the translators...everyone needs to understand this message." Narrise give her order to the officer, as she prepared to give the fleets her speech.
After a couple seconds, a beep was heard as the channel had been opened. "Channels open Ship Master."
"My fellow warriors...for 121 years, our galaxy, this spiral of gas and dust that everyone of us occupy, the spiral of gas and dust that keeps us sheltered from the void that lies beyond, and the very spiral of gas and dust that gave birth to our home stars, our star systems, our homeworlds, and of course...all of us. For all these years, there has been a menace within it that has threatened the existence of every living thing in it, and we have battled this menace for over a century to save ourselves, too preserve our freedoms...but not from the threats of tyranny, oppression, or persecution...but from annihilation. The Xyzox have taken our homes, taken almost all of our natural resources, destroyed our cities and homes, killed our loved ones, killed trillions of innocent lives, thrown many thousands of species into extinction, the list goes on and on. But there's something they can't destroy, something that is unbreakable and cannot be shattered, and that is our unity...and because of this unity, all of our different species stand here today, alive. In less then an hour, millions of starships and aircraft of every space-faring species in the galaxy will join together, and we'll be launching the largest space battle in galactic history. The galaxy...this place should have new meaning for all of us today, we can't be consumed by our petty differences any longer. We will be united in our common interests, and we will form one galactic superpower that no other force in the universe can oppose. The Xyzox can no longer scare us, they can no longer harm our innocent, our loved ones, and our freedom. And that's why we all stand here today, we are fighting for our freedom, our right to live, to exist. And when we win the day and wake up from this eternal nightmare that has plagued all of us, September 26th will be known as the day when the galaxy declared in one voice, WE WILL NOT GO QUIETLY INTO THE NIGHT! We will not vanish without a fight. We're going to live on, we're going to survive, today we celebrate, our independence day!"
Immediately after she finished, everyone in the War Room erupted into applause and cheers, as well as billions of other voices on the channel. Johnathan on the other side of the room was sobbing as well as cheering at Narrise's speech. "NOW LET'S GO MAKE THESE BASTARDS PAY!" Narrise yelled before closing the channel and turning around. As Narrise announced that, everyone started walking out of the room and getting to there battle stations.
"Commander Reed!" Jefferson shouted at John through all the cheering.
"Yes Captain?" Johnathan also shouted through the crowd, as he stopped in place and turned to face Jefferson.
"Meet me on the bridge I'll be a minute." Jefferson pointed out to John.
"Yes sir." Johnathan acknowledged Jefferson, as he then turned around and began making his way towards the bridge.
Soon everyone had left the War Room, leaving only Jefferson and Narrise as it's occupants. The only thing that could be heard in the room at the moment was the sound of the oxygen flowing through the room and the vents, but the silence was soon disrupted when Jefferson's footsteps echoed within the room, as he turned around and approached Narrise, who was currently looking out a large window towards Vuoyama. Jefferson now stood aside Narrise looked out the window and observed Vuoyama.
The planet was one big huge blue marble, the entire surface nearly covered in water, but there was some decent sized continents that littered the surface, the largest one being about the size of Europe on Earth, but Vuoyama was about two times more massive then Earth. But another observation about Vuoyama, was the thousands of different ships orbiting the planet, all built by different species and different designs. The scene looked like something straight out of a movie.
"Beautiful isn't she Jeff?" Narrise asked Jefferson with a calm soothing tone, as she looked straight out towards her homeworld.
"Yes, yes it is. What I find surprising is that despite all this time it's been under Xyzox control, it looks mostly untouched, and the scans can confirm that. They must have kept it like that for some reason." Jefferson pointed out the anomaly to Narrise, as he continued to look at the planet.
"I know, the Xyzox usually just take control over a planet, take every natural resource it has, and just leave it drained and dead, and yet they leave Vuoyama almost intact. It doesn't make sense." Narrise expressed in confusion, as she turned to face Jefferson.
"And perhaps we'll never know why." Jefferson expressed with a shrug.
The two then sat in silence for about half a minute, observing Vuoyama and the fleet in all it's beauty, until Narrise broke the silence
"You know this is the first time I have ever seen my homeworld, correct?" Narrise pointed out towards Jefferson as she turned to face him.
"Yeah I know, your species has been exiled from Vuoyama for 121 years, and your only 37 years old, in Earth years." Jefferson explained to Narrise. "This must be quite emotional for you."
"It is...it is. In fact answer something for me." Narrise asked Jefferson, as she crossed her arms. "I've looked at other planets before, and yet when I look at Vuoyama, I feel so much different, as if it's...I don't know, calling out to me. You've looked at Earth before Jefferson, have you ever felt this, if so, then do you know why I feel this way?" Narrise asked Jefferson in a very curious yet confused tone, as she turned her full attention towards him.
Jefferson chuckled at her question. "Narrise I believe you're experiencing what we humans call the Overview Effect. Every human that has ever been to space for the past 600 years has experienced this effect. From the first human to have ever left Earth, which was Yuri Gagarin, to now, all of them have most likely felt the exact same thing you are feeling. Now as for why your feeling these kind of emotions, well it's quite simple, it's because Vuoyama is where your species was born. It's your birthplace, everything that's on that planet you're pretty much related to, from the trees, plants, and other living things that inhabit the planet, all of them stemmed from a tiny little cell that created every living thing for the past billions of years, including the Saqek. So I guess you say that basically Vuoyama is calling out to you, saying to "come back home" for you are part of Vuoyama...and it wants to have that missing piece back." Jefferson explained to Narrise, and concluded rather dramatically.
"That's...that's beautiful." Narrise whispered with a smile as she looked at Vuoyama. Narrise then sniffed and felt a small tear roll down her cheek. "Dammit it Jeff, now you got me all emotional." Narrise playfully expressed, as she then playfully punched Jefferson in the shoulder.
"Hey, it's what I do best." Jefferson expressed jokingly, as he shrugged his shoulders.
"Ugh, you and your ways." Narrise said sarcastically. "Anyways I have a fleet to command, and I believe you have a ship to command as well hmm?"
"That I do, anyways-" Jefferson then pulled Narrise into a hug. "Stay safe out there Narrise."
Narrise returned the hug. "You too Jeff." The two then patted each others backs before breaking the hug.
The two then walked towards the door to exit the War Room, and when they exited the War Room, they parted ways and left to command each others ships.
Milky Way Galaxy/Ancera System/Orbit above Vuoyama/U.S.S. Armageddon/Bridge/7:28 PM/September 26th/2557 C.E.
The doors that lead into the elevator opened with a hissing sound, as Jefferson then walked out of the elevator and was greeted with a scene of many of the senior staff talking with each other, discussing different things of many different topics. Laughing and joking could also be heard through the conversations, and everyone on the bridge seemed almost...happy, something that Jefferson hadn't seen in a long time. Jefferson was glad to see this type of scene on the bridge, and very soon he'll be seeing a lot more often. Jefferson also took in the calming looks of the bridge, the color black always brought a sense of relief and calmness into him. The bridge was almost all black, as well as the entire ship.
The Armageddon was one hell of a warship, 220 Railguns across the hall, 50 high powered Lasers, 100 Plasma Cannons, and 200 Torpedo Bays that can fire many different types of torpedoes. Most of the Torpedo Bays were located on the top and bottom of the saucer section facing vertically for orbital bombardment. So when the Armageddon wasn't looking down at a planet and bombing the shit out of it, it had 10 forward Torpedo Bays, and 10 Aft Torpedo Bays. Plus the black painting of the ship gave it an even more threatening look. This ship was given it's name for a reason. The rest of the crewmembers on the bridge then noticed Jefferson presence.
"And then-" Johnathan then noticed Jefferson's presence. "Captain on deck!" Johnathan shouted for everyone to hear, and soon the whole bridge was saluting Jefferson.
"At ease everyone." Jefferson announced to everyone on the bridge as he then began making his way to his chair. "Lieutenant what's our status?"
Lieutenant Maria Williams was the science officer of the Armageddon, she provided much information on the ship within that category. "Right now sir we're just waiting for the Ship Master's word." Maria responded to Jefferson question, as she typed commands onto her console.
"Good, why don't you give me a quick run through on all the primary systems?" Jefferson asked Maria, as he then sat down in his chair, with Johnathan then sitting in the chair besides him, setting down his helmet on the ground.
"Yes captain. All systems of the Zero Point Energy Reactor are ready for action, shielding is at 100%, Railguns, Plasma Cannons, Lasers, and Torpedo Bays are all green across the board. And hull integrity is at 100%, we are ready to kick some Xyzox ass sir." Maria listed the following systems proudly, as she then looked back up at Jefferson.
"Good to hear, just how I like it." Jefferson replied confidently and smugly to Maria.
Suddenly everyone's attention was brought towards a beeping alarm coming from pilots console. The pilot named Tommy Medvetz brought up the message on the screen on his console, and he confirmed that it was from Narrise.
"Captain, it's a fleet wide message from Ship Master Hoymuquar, she's ready to engage the assault on the Orellius System." Tommy announced to Jefferson, as well as everyone else on the bridge, as he turned to face Jefferson.
"Well, after exactly 121 years of fighting...it's finally come down to this moment, the beginning of the end. Jefferson, you ready to send these bastards back to hell?" Johnathan announced to the crew, and then asked Jefferson, as he then turned to face him.
"Hell yeah I am John. Let's finish this. The rounds on me once this is all over everyone, we'll celebrate with a couple of drinks, and possibly get drunk!" Jefferson announced to everyone on the bridge, as laughs could be heard from his statement on the drinks.
"Alright." Jefferson then pressed a button on the side of his chair. "Red alert, all hands to battle stations!" Jefferson announced through the intercom, his voice being heard all across the ship, as alarms and red lights began going off across the ship. "Engage!"
Tommy turned the huge ship that was the Armageddon to face the Orellius System, as the rest of the ships we're waiting for the Armageddon and the Thylacine, Narrise's ship. Soon the Thylacine opened a portal to Slipspace, and the Armageddon then soon followed, activating it's Alcubierre Warp Drive, expanding space-time behind the ship, and contracting it in front of it. The Armageddon then began riding the wave of space-time, sending it flying forward at impossible speeds, and then the millions of other ships around Vuoyama then followed by engaging there many different types of FTL travel, sending them towards Orellius.
Milky Way Galaxy/Approaching Orellius System/Interstellar Space/U.S.S. Armageddon/Bridge/7:56 PM/September 26th/2557 C.E.
The atmosphere on the bridge at the current moment was very tense. The only thing that could be heard was the sound of the air ventilation cycling air into the bridge, and the officers typing on there consoles doing many things. Jefferson and Johnathan looked straight ahead towards the window, watching the space around them rush by at many millions of miles per second. Johnathan looked away from the window for a moment and pressed a button on his arm, which then caused a small slot of his armor to open on his arm and revealed a small holographic projector. But it wasn't any normal projector, as John then press another button on his arm which then caused a hardlight projection of a screen to appear above his arm.
The Hardlight Projector basically projected a small computer, as John then pressed a few buttons on the projection, which sent a message to all tactical stations to prepare for battle. Johnathan then pressed the button again, and it stopped the hardlight projection, and then he pressed the other button again to close the slot in his armor. With that he went back to looking straight ahead.
"Approaching the Orellius System Captain." Tommy announced to Jefferson, his voice breaking the long held silence.
Jefferson began feeling anxiety after Tommy said that, but Jeff didn't let the anxiety have to much control over him and continued looking forward with a slight glare. The atmosphere of the bridge also changed after Tommy had said that, it went from being very tense to VERY tense, as everyone was now officially preparing for battle.
"We're dropping out of warp in 30 seconds." Tommy once again announced to the Captain, as he then looked over to the Co-pilot, Vincent Anderson and nodded.
"You ready Captain?" Johnathan asked Jefferson in a calm yet blank tone, as he turned to face him.
Jefferson turned to face Johnathan and smiled smugly. "I've always been ready for this John."
John smiled back. "So have I Jeff...so have I." Johnathan replied in a smug tone, as he then repositioned himself in his chair, preparing for the moment he's been waiting for for a long time.
"Dropping out of warp in 5...4...3...2...1." The rushing space that past by the window then began slowing down.
Milky Way Galaxy/Orellius System/Space above Neyruta/7:57 PM/September 26th/2557 C.E
Neyruta, the farthest out planet in the Orellius System. Neyruta is a large green gas giant that has over 20 moons orbiting it, all of these moons having many different distinct features. Neyruta also had a small yet clearly visible ring, although it's rings were not as visible as Saturn's. It was a very calming view, the moons orbiting Neyruta elegantly, the ring sitting gracefully around the gas giant, and then there was the green aurora that surrounded the gas giant. But this beautiful scenery was suddenly interrupted by a portal opening near the gas giant, and out came through the portal was the Thylacine.
The smooth, large, and beautifully made Saqek vessel flew gracefully out of the portal to Slipspace with a deadly beauty. A second later the large black, deadly looking, and battle ready warship that was the Armageddon suddenly appeared next to the Thylacine after dropping out of warp. Another second later, thousands upon thousands of starship of many different designs began coming though portals, dropping out warp, and many different FTL methods. Thousands more ships kept appearing and coming out of portals, the stream of ships seemed almost endless, as if they would never stop coming. After about 2 minutes, the stream of many different alien starships finally stopped, as the gargantuan fleet of ships could be seen from thousands of miles away from Neyruta. The fleet now had over 6.7 million ships within it, and then the fleet began flying towards Xuwhypso.
Tommy on the other hand, was piloting the Armageddon when suddenly thousands of reports from all the different fleets began flooding in. Tommy was prepared for this and brought up the list.
"Pruakx Fleet reporting, Blygoss Fleet reporting, Flubla Fleet reporting." Tommy listed the fleets of many different species that were currently in this massive fleet, and as he did, Johnathan could be heard chuckling evilly in he background. "Xonsirf Fleet reporting, Wuprarc Fleet reporting, Vroesyr Fleet reporting, Xruelalt Fleet reporting, Phebykhine Fleet reporting, Gnilfen Fleet reporting, Saqek Fleet reporting, Krowrurc Fleet reporting, Human Fleet reporting, Zilphie Fleet reporting, F- You what you get the point." Tommy casually said, as he then just read the number of fleets that needed to report in, and all of them had reported in.
"All fleets reporting in Captain. Ready to engage on Ship Master Hoymuquar command." Tommy reported to Jefferson in a stern tone.
"That's what I like to hear, these bastards don't stand a chance." Jefferson said confidently with his statement. As he adjusted himself in his chair.
A beeping sound could then be heard coming from the Co-pilot's console. "Sir, it's a fleet wide channel from the Ship Master." Vincent reported to Jefferson as he turned slightly to face him.
"Open the channel." Johnathan ordered Vincent, as Vincent complied and opened the channel.
A beep could be heard as the channel was open."All fleets, we will be approaching the Xyzox homeworld in exactly 20 seconds, so prepare your weapons if you haven't already. The other fleet will be arriving shortly, they'll launch a surprise attack while the Xyzox have there attention on us, although I highly doubt we'll need more ships, it's best if we get this over with as soon as possible. Keep this channel open for everyone to communicate with each other. Hoymuquar out."
With that everyone's attention now look towards the window, and Xuwhypso could be seen rapidly approaching. "All fleets, disengage warp drives!" Narrise ordered, as the all the ships disengaged there warp drives. Every ship had a warp drive, the aliens that used Hyperspace, Slipspace, or Wormholes for FTL usually used the warp drives to get around star systems faster.
The Xyzox homeworld of Xuwhypso could now clearly be seen through the windows on the bridge. They were currently approaching the dark side of the planet, so red lights could be seen scattered all across the surface of the planet. There was also huge bridges that lit up the oceans around them, as these bridges connected to many different continents all across the planet, these bridges even passed through huge bodies of water. The whole planet looked to be mostly urbanization.
"So, this is the Xyzox homeworld." Jefferson announced through the channel in slight amazement, leaning back against his chair.
"Huh, I expected to be more industrialized. At least the queen respects her birthplace." A Phebykhine Captain announced over the channel with a surprised tone.
The fleet of over 6.7 million ships was now about 34,700 miles above the planet, and now the Xyzox fleet could now be seen clearly altering there course and beginning to approach the fleet. The remains of the Xyzox fleet includes over 980,000 ships, nowhere near as close to the Alliance fleet. All of these remaining 980,000 ships were in orbit above Xuwhypso.
Narrise, noticed the "large" fleet of Xyzox ships changing there course from doing whatever they've been assigned to do, and heading towards the Alliance fleet. "This is it everyone. Be ready on my signal, and prepare to hit these bastards with everything you've got!" Narrise announced through the channel, as she signaled her Tactical Officer to prepare all weapons.
"You heard the lady! Lieutenant! Prepare...ALL weapons." Jefferson ordered his Tactical Officer Qeesheer Duggan, a Blygoss, as he grinned evilly.
"You got it Captain." Qeesheer acknowledged Jefferson, as he typed a few things on his console, as he was slightly smiling, excited to see once again what the full power of the Armageddon could do. It never gets old for him.
When Qeesheer typed in a certain command in the console, hundreds of slots on the hull of the ship began opening up, and out of them came Railguns, High Powered Lasers, and Plasma Cannons. The Torpedo Bays were already on the ship. The Armageddon now looked like a complete mess of deadly weapons that littered it's hall, as stuck out like a sore thumb among the rest of the ships.
Jefferson and Johnathan now chuckled evilly as they prepared to unleash "armageddon" on the Xyzox. They we're also waiting to feel the satisfying feel of pleasure wash through them as they were about to avenge billions if not trillions of lives.
"FIRE!" Narrise ordered through the channel, her voice having a stern anger to it, and as soon as she gave that order...all hell broke lose.
The Alliance fleet unleashed a show of power and brute force as billions of projectiles, lasers, missiles, and torpedos we're unleashed onto the Xyzox like a shower of death. The projectiles include millions of bolts of plasma, rounds of Titanium and Tungsten traveling of hundreds of thousands of miles per second, highly energized rounds of Titanium and Tungsten traveling at hundreds of thousands of miles per second, and many more alien projectiles rushing towards the Xyzox fleet.
The millions of lasers had already reached there targets, weakening even destroying the shields on the Xyzox fleet, and for the ships that weren't shielded,the lasers began cutting through the halls of the Xyzox ships and some of the ships even exploding as the lasers hit many major systems including the reactor. The many missiles and torpedoes that flew through the vacuum of space and headed towards the Xyzox fleet includes millions of Antimatter Torpedoes, Antimatter Missiles, Nuclear Missiles, Plasma Torpedoes, Regular Missiles, Quantum Torpedoes, Quantum Missiles, and much more.
The billions of projectiles, missiles, and torpedoes rushed towards the already damaged Xyzox fleet thanks to the lasers destroying some of the ships shields and damaging there hulls, and began slamming against the hulls or shields of the Xyzox ships. One of the leading ships was severely damaged by the lasers, and was slammed with many railgun rounds, as the rounds punched through the ship like it was nothing, there was also the many plasma projectiles burning through it's hull like nothing. After five seconds of bombardment, the bombing finally stopped, leaving the Xyzox ship crippled and offline, as hundreds of fires could be seen burning inside the ship, but quickly dissipating due to there being no oxygen for it to feast on.
All of the lights where also off due to there being no power. Finally Antimatter torpedoes, Nukes, Quantum torpedoes, and Plasma torpedoes slammed against the hull, finishing off the already hopeless vessels in a brilliant flash. The same process was repeated for many different vessels of the Xyzox, destroying thousands of ships in the heavy bombardment, as the missed projectiles and torpedoes began bombarding the surface.
Within only a minute, the Xyzox we're now only down to about 685,000 ships, losing over 295,000 ships within only minute. If things couldn't get worse for the Xyzox, the remaining fleet appeared in behind them, an additional 16.8 million ships began unloading more hell onto the Xyzox. It was now 23.5 million VS 685,000 ships. While it seemed the fight would be over any second, the Xyzox Collective recovered from there shock and raised almost all remaining power towards the shields, giving them temporary invulnerability. The remaining Xyzox ships then began there counter attack and began firing there weapons, which was very kinetic plasma projectiles and Quantum Torpedoes.
"There firing back! All ships evasive maneuvers, but keep firing on them! We need to take down there shields!" Narrise shouted her order through the channel, as all the alliance ships began doing there best to evade the incoming fire from the Xyzox ships while staying in formation.
The next thing surprised the alliance fleet, 4 saucer shaped ships rose from the surface of the burning planet below, but the thing that surprised them the most about the ships is that these ships we're specificity designed to protect the Xyzox Queen. These ships were the ships that rode along side the Queen's vessel, and they we're very powerful offensively and defensively, they had some of the most powerful and technologically advanced weapons and shields in the Xyzox Collective equipped on them.
"Aren't those the queen's bodyguard ships?" Johnathan asked Jefferson in a worried and confused tone, as he turned away from the battle in front of him.
"Yeah, they are, and that could only mean one thing." Jefferson answered Johnathan with a clear sound of hatred in his voice.
Jefferson immediately pressed the button on the armrest of his chair and opened the channel to the fleet. "This is Captain Andrews of the U.S.S. Armageddon, we've spotted all of the queen's bodyguards ships raising from the surface of the planet. This could mean the queen is attempting-"
Jefferson was cut off as he then noticed the queen's bodyguard ships powering up one of the most powerful weapons in the Xyzox Collective, the Particle Lance. A huge ball of red energy began forming in front of the four ships, as it got bigger and bigger the more it powered up. The Particle Lance was infamous for cutting through about every known material with ease, and destroying the best shields the alliance has ever produced in a matter a seconds. His eyes widening in horror, Jefferson immediately took action.
"THOSE SHIPS ARE POWERING UP THE PARTICLE LANCE! MOVE THE FUCK OUT OF THE WAY!" Jefferson yelled through the channel, as everyone the ships were facing began pitching many different ways.
The ships were just in time as multiple red beams of death began shooting out from the emitter the shot was powered up on. Two of the alliance ships even collided with each other while avoiding the beam in their panic. The ships only took some damage to their shields. The Armageddon while pitching to avoid the particle Lance, was slightly grazed on it's saucer section by the beam, as the shields on the ship glowed extremely bright as the beam grazed against it, eventually going back to it's invisible state after a couple seconds.
The entire ship shook, as everyone on the bridge was pushed slightly off balance by the shock wave that shook the ship. As Jefferson recovered he looked around the bridge and found nothing wrong except his officers attempting to regain there balance.
"SHIELDS!" Jefferson yelled his order across the bridge.
"Sir our shields are at 75% and holding!" Qeesheer shouted across the bridge towards Jefferson as he began typing in certain commands in his console.
Jefferson took a deep breath "Holy shit that thing is powerful!" Jefferson announced to everyone as he exhaled. "Qeesheer, target one of those vessels, throw everything we got at it!" Jefferson ordered Qeesheer, as he looked at one of the queen's bodyguard ships.
"With pleasure sir." With that Qeesheer targeted the closest bodyguard ship and made the weapons open fire and release armageddon on it.
"Tommy, fly us over that thing. We're going to shove some Titanium and Tungsten down their throats!" Jefferson ordered Tommy aggressively, as he smiled sinisterly.
"Got it Captain!" Tommy acknowledged Jefferson, as he set a course to fly over the ship.
As the battle around them raged on, the Armageddon was unloading hundreds projectiles and torpedos onto one of the bodyguard ships, with the lasers also lowering the shields rapidly on the Xyzox ship. The Xyzox ship began targeting the rapidly approaching Armageddon with it's kinetic plasma cannons, but they stood no chance against the firepower of the Armageddon, as it's shields were soon lowered and the Armageddon's weapons began tearing through the ships hull. Soon the Armageddon began slowing down and decreasing it's firepower, as it was now directly above the ship and moving.
"Qeesheer, prepare to fire the automatic railguns!" Johnathan ordered Qeesheer, as Qeesheer began working on his console, typing in certain commands.
As Qeesheer finished typing in the command, ten slots opened up on the bottom of the Armageddon, and out of them came ten massive deadly looking railguns that looked hungry. The ten massive railguns slowly turned around to face the Xyzox ship, and as it finished, it began taking aim on the ship as the magnetic coils on the guns could clearly be seen charging up. During this, the Xyzox bodyguard ship was firing it's only functioning plasma cannon at the Armageddon in a futile attempt to save it's self, as the shields of the Armageddon simply absorbed it. The railguns were finished charging and were ready to fire.
"Fire!" Jefferson shouted his order, and with that Qeesheer pressed the button that would fire the cannons.
The automatic railguns than began unleashing titanium and tungsten rounds that traveled at 6,000 miles a second, and one railgun alone was unleashing 100 of these rounds every second. But with the addition of nine other railguns firing at the same paste, the guns all combine were unleashing 1,000 rounds per second. Within a couple milliseconds, the Xyzox ship had been completely ripped to shreds, as it's hull was breached with hundreds of titanium rounds traveling at 6,000 miles a second, making it like a knife through butter. Multiple explosions could also be seen on the surface of Xuwhypso below them, as the titanium rounds hit the oceans and land like small asteroids. The Armageddon was flying away from the vessel as it exploded in a brilliant flash, making the Armageddon leave the scene like a total badass.
"Holy shit I saw that from here! Amazing kill Armageddon!" A human captain spoke to Jefferson through the channel in a impressed tone.
"Thanks for the compliment Rhode Island!" Jefferson proudly thanked the captain by naming his ship, as he saw the name of the ship contacting them on a hardlight projection of a screen above one of his armrest on his chair.
The Rhode Island could then be seen flying below the Armageddon, as it could be seen through the window on the bridge, the name "U.S.S. Rhode Island" proudly labeled on the ships hull as it flew below. The Armageddon then returned to the fight, destroying a couple small Xyzox Cruisers in it's path. But right as the Armageddon was getting back into the fight, a urgent message was sent out to the fleet.
"Everyone, this is Ship Master Hoymuquar. This is an fleet wide alert, the queen's ship has entered the fight, I repeat, the queen has entered the fight!" Narrise announced urgently over the channel.
An absolutely massive saucer that was about the size of New York City and had red lights all across it, could be seen raising up slowly from the burning planet below, with it's now three bodyguards guarding the gargantuan vessel. The queen's vessel dwarfed every ship that was in the battle, making it look like tiny insects below a tyrant.
Instead of being absolutely shocked at the ships size and appearance, Johnathan instead had a face of pure confusion. "What is this bitch crazy!? She may have the most advanced ship in the entire galaxy but her against 23.5 million ship!? Yeah I don't think "technological superiority" really matters in this situation. She must be attempting an escape." Johnathan announced through the channel, making his logical conclusion sarcastically.
"That you are right Commander, the queen's ship isn't joining the fight, it's leaving the fight! And it has a course set a couple thousand miles away. We CAN'T let her get away!" Narrise spoke in urgent tone, as she then realized what she had to do. "Captain Andrews of the U.S.S. Armageddon, you've proven how powerful your ship is, and it's probably the best chance we got at destroying that monstrosity of a ship. Captain you have new orders...pursue the queen's ship, and destroy it! If the queen is killed, then the entire Xyzox race will probably be freed from her control, and the war will end without the extinction of the entire Xyzox race." Narrise spoke rather dramatically to Jefferson, as she ordered him to pursue the queen's ship.
"Yes ma'am, I'll carry out your orders with pleasure." Jefferson responded rather sinister to Narrise's orders.
"Good to hear. Be safe Captain." Narrise acknowledged Jefferson in a sisterly tone.
"You know I will." Jefferson responded rather smugly towards Narrise, as he then closed the channel. With that Jeff then brought his attention towards Tommy. "Mr. Medvetz, pursue course, engage!" Jefferson ordered Tommy as he then typed in an announcement to engineering on his hardlight screen.
The Armageddon turned around to face the gargantuan vessel that was the queen's ship, which was beginning to pick up speed and ramming through many Xyzox and Alliance ships, destroying everything in it's path. The alliance ships began doing there best to avoid being hit by the massive vessel that was ramming thousands of ships like nothing. Soon after many casualties on both the alliance and Xyzox sides, the queen's ship finally exited the huge cluster of ships at high speeds, with the Armageddon hot on it's tail. The queen and her bodyguards seemed to be unaware of the Armageddon's presence behind them, as neither of the ships turned around to target the ship.
"The fucking bitch is ruthless! She just killed thousands of her own people without remorse!" Jefferson announced in a quite angry tone, as he adjusted himself in his seat.
"She also killed thousands of our people as well. Although that's not surprising...those are just more lives that have been lost in this war. And every one of those lives having a life of there own." Johnathan announced in a depressing tone, as he looked down in towards the ground with a blank expression.
"Captain, the queen's ship is slowing down, she might- wait a minute...I'm detecting Dark Matter and Quantum particles emitting from the queen's ship!" Tommy announced to Jefferson in a confused tone, as he typed in commands on his console.
"She's creating a portal to Subspace." Jefferson announced in a urgent yet confused tone as he stood up from his chair and began walking up closer to Tommy to get a better look outside the window.
"A Wormhole. I thought the Xyzox didn't possessed that kind of technology." Johnathan pointed out towards Jefferson, as he too stood up to stand beside Jefferson.
"I thought so to." Jefferson responded in a blank tone towards John, as he continued watching the queen's ship.
Soon, the space in front of the queen's ship could soon be seen rippling like water after it's been disturbed, as the space-time continuum in front of the ship was being breached. Seconds after that, a white flash appeared in front of the ship and soon a huge wormhole was opened in front of the ship. A huge whirlwind of blue energy spinned around a white hole that lead to somewhere in the universe. The queen's ship and her bodyguards began heading into the white hole that would lead them to their destination. The four ships then entered the huge wormhole after a couple of seconds of it being opened, but before it could close, the Armageddon entered the wormhole in a hot pursuit of the ships, and as soon as the Armageddon entered the wormhole, it closed behind them, returning the space around where the wormhole was back to normal, looking like nothing ever happened.
I made sure to spend more effort on the details in this chapter, hopefully it's good enough. Anyways, now for some information. First off the Saqek are a aquatic race if you didn't get that. Also the Armageddon was a ship designed for massive assaults on certain Xyzox fleets and planets, although mostly designed to bombard Xyzox mining world's and pretty much leave nothing standing. The Armageddon entered service in the year 2551 C.E. and has caused massive devastation for the Xyzox Collective in the following 6 years of it's service. The Armageddon looks a lot like the U.S.S. Vengeance from Star Trek Into Darkness, although minus the huge gap in the saucer section and the bridge is located strategically on the bottom of the ship. Besides that, Chapter 1 should be released shorty, and if you need some more basic information on the characters just let me know.