Here's another chapter of Independence Effect. I must admit, I'm surprise at how much likes this is getting. So thank you all for your reviews.
Chapter 2: Suspicions and the Prelude to War
Shanxi airspace
SDF Battlecruiser Asgard
Captain Roy Cruz scrunched up his face as he looks over the scans given to him by the technicians. Only 10 minutes ago, one of the Transit Gates showed signs of activation. Immediately, the defence fleet situated here went into High Alert Status, with every single scanner and turret aimed towards the ancient machine. The Stealth Antimatter Mines were ready to be activated and armed at any time, each one carrying a payload equivalent to 430 megatons of TNT. The Orbital Defence Satellites around Shanxi are all charged and the surface cannons active.
Soon something came out of the Gate, it was a ship. A ship unlike any designs seen before, it was something new, something different, something definitely not human. Moments after it appeared it disappeared. Or at least it tried to. The alien ship hid its heat emissions and many other electronic emissions but it was sitting in plain view in front of the Gate. What kind of stealth ship doesn't use visual stealth technology? Captain Cruz merely shook his head as he focused back on what the scanners can tell and what the other scientist and researchers have speculated.
The first thing noticed by the scientists was the fact that the ship came from a Transit Gate. This instantly gave a big clue, that this alien race utilises Element Zero. The thought that this was the Protheans came to mind but was quickly put down due to the technological difference. This alien ship while advance, was nowhere near the level of the Protheans. It was more likely this race merely copied the Protheans instead.
The second thing was the stealth. The fact that the alien race instantly tried(and failed Roy thought) to hide themselves tell a lot about this race. Stealth meant espionage, espionage meant a war, thus this ship can only be used for war times, or for black operations. Another was that either the appearance of humanity in this sector spooked the race into hiding or they knew humanity was here and came to scout.
If it was simply of the fact of them becoming scared, which was understandable when facing against a whole fleet of ships, against the one ship they have, it was fine to a degree.
However, if the aliens knew humanity was in this system since the beginning and came to scout, things become much more difficult. Was this a scouting ship for a larger invasion force? Or was it merely a routine check up and notice humanity. Did the aliens already placed stealth ships in this system before? If they have, then how much information about humanity have already been sent?
All these possibilities can point to the worst possible position for humans to be in.
War.
While humanity in its whole have experience interstellar war since before they officially became a space faring species, the fact was that many were tired of having to fight. It was quite a sad sight.
Humanity, a species that was always filled with curiosity, always wanting to know more, was attacked, not once, but three times. Each one a first contact with another alien species. Each one caused thousands to millions of death. The body count of the first war, the Independence War was the highest in all of human history.
Every single first contact had led to war, this made humans a battle hardened species. While still filled with curiosity, this time they were also filled with a great sense of caution and and is always ready to fight to the end if necessary.
Captain Roy sighed before ordering his crew, "Attempt to hail that ship. All guns are to be ready to fire and shields are to remain up at all times. Carrier Tesla and Leonardo are to prepare their fighters and drones. The ships are to move to the front ready to engage. All missile silos are to be filled. Understood!"
"Yes Sir!"
The entire ship flooded with activity as the Defence fleet of Arcturus moved up in front of the planet. Turning to the image of the alien ship, the Captain called out, "Alice."
Beside him, small light particles gathered before forming a small teenage girl wearing an old Victorian dress with a crimson bow on her black hair. She did a little spin before answering, "Yes Captain?"
"Have you broke through aliens computers yet?" he asked as he wondered to himself, what in the world made the AI want to dress up like Alice in Wonderland. In a combat vessel no less.
"Yep, it was pretty easy surprisingly. It seems that they don't prepare themselves against AI attacks. I manage to get the language and the race name." A holographic screen appeared in front of the Captain showing an alien, "This race is known as the Salarians and are bipedal amphibians. They are similar to the Reagents in some areas but are mostly different. They belong to a galactic government known as the Citadel Council. "
Roy's frown at that last sentence, "A galactic government, you mean we are dealing with more than one race here?"
"Yes, there are at least 8 races that are within the Citadel space, but the top 3 are the Salarians, Turians, and the Asari," she answered as she twirled a lock of hair around her finger.
"I see...what about technology?" the Captain questioned, facing that many races at the same time can really take the toll on resources and lives if war comes to be.
"It seems that the Citadel Races rely on Element Zero as their main form of technology. Even their weapon systems uses element zero," was the reply, "they seem to have some sort of kinetic shields as well"
"Kinetic shields?"
"Shields that only block kinetic force but not light, radiation, heat, that sort of shield."
Captain Roy Cruz was silent for a moment before ordering, "Send a message to General Williams about the situation, see if he can be ready to bring the city-shield online. Inform SDF command and the Arcturus Station, if this turn out to be bloody, we might need a lot more ships. Also translate the message I'm going to give."
The current defence fleet of the Arcturus system contains only 20 frigates, 10 destroyers, 2 carriers and 3 battlecruisers. Hopefully that would be enough to repel any invasion force.
The small AI gave a short nod before disappearing in a flash of light.
STG Stealth Frigate Strike First
If Salarians were capable of sweating, Lieutenant Verik Manis would be filling up a small bucket. They were assigned a mission to check up on the borders of the Batarian air space near the Skyllian Verge. Salarian Union wanted to receive reports on the actions of the Batarians and if necessary, set up stealth comm buoys near their territory if they show signs of colonising the area.
As such when the Lieutenant and his group found ship debris near a deactivated Mass Relay, they were quite concern. It was obvious that a battle had happened near the Relay and the ships were Batarian in design. The main concern however was if the Batarians have activated the Mass Relay and brought back an advance species strong enough to defeat the Batarians ships without suffering a lost. Not only will the Batarians have broken a great law, this could easily lead to another Rachni War. The last time required the Salarians to uplift the Krogans to help fight the Rachnis. This time however, there is no Krogan equivalents to uplift in case of war.
Like all Salarians, Lieutenant Manis was a quick thinker, and instantly came up with possible scenarios.
One, the Batarians were looking for resources and activated this Relay, and on the other side encountered another space faring species. It was well known that Batarians were not great diplomats so the first contact could have gone bad in an instant, with the other race forcing the Batarians to retreat. The Batarians were probably chased and was eventually destroyed with the alien ships retreating back to their side. This scenario was currently the most plausible one and one of the safer routes as the blame could be shifted to the Batarians and peace talks were much more easier to commence.
Two, the alien race came from the Relay and encountered the Batarians. Like the first scenario, the Batarians fired first and ended with the their ship destructions and the other race retreating.
The third scenario was the worst, the other race actively engaged with the Batarians without any chance of diplomacy. If that was the case, then war between the Citadel and this new race would begin and escalate very quickly. The Turians will probably lead the war front and engage with the enemy. However, without much information on this new race, the battles could easily cause large amounts of death on both sides.
The fourth scenario was the most hopeful. The amount of Element Zero in the debris masked whether the Relay have been activated or not, as such there is always a chance that the Relay had not been activated and the Batarians merely fought each other near the area. If that was the case then there is no need to prepare for war.
However, preparation is what Salarians do best. They finish a war before it even begins. They strike with precision and stealth. Knowing all they can about the opponent.
Unfortunately, not even the Salarians can predict the technology of a new race. Using the information present, they can only estimate that the enemy either has more ships or have better weapons to defeat the Batarian ships. The scans on the debris only show Mass Accelerator and GARDIAN Laser damages that other Batarians use, so the situation was hopeful.
A quick Relay message was sent back to the Union and the Council, asking for instructions. The orders eventually came after a short emergency meeting. They were to activate the Relay and scout out the system for the other race. They are required to remain hidden and to not engage with the unknowns if they are any. A Suppression Force made up of Turian fleets will be sent to assist if things got messy. The Asari ambassadors will take much longer before they can arrive.
As ordered they activated the Mass Relay and sent their ship through. When they arrived they quickly activated the stealth systems and started to scan the system. Then came the surprises.
On one of the planets they can see an extremely large city, clearly a colony judging from the size and the fact that it was one of the only cities on the planet. There were also satellites orbiting the planet though the large amount of them confused the Salarians. There were easily over 50 of the satellites, which was weird considering this was only a colony there's no need for the large numbers. The shape of the satellites themselves were also weird. They resemble a closed citadel with 2 giant solar panels extending from the head.
There was also a moderate amount of ships 300,000 kilometres away from the planet, each one clearly advance. What caught the main attention of the Lieutenant however, was the size of the ships. There were about twenty cruiser sized ships along with ten dreadnoughts, two 5 kilometres ships and three ships up to 7 kilometres.
The cruisers were hexagonal prisms in shape and had a length of 600 metres to 700 metres. Each carried up to 4 spinal-mounted double barrel turrets on the top and on the bottom of the ship.
The dreadnoughts were easily 1 kilometre in length and had a more triangular front compared to the cruisers. They too carried the spinal guns only with triple barrels, and were much larger.
The 5 kilometre ships were trapezoidal in shape, with a flat bow and is much smaller in terms of height compared to the other ships. It has the least amount of cannons surprisingly, 2 sets of the triple barrel turrets.
The last 3 ships were longer than the other ships but carried the same general shape. It has the most cannons with from what he could tell, up to 4 pairs of triple barrel turrets. There were also plenty of what looks to be Point Defence Weapons, and currently, every single one of those guns were aimed at his ship.
As such brings him to his current predicament. The unknown alien race seems to be able to detect his ship regardless of the stealth systems and were ready to shoot. Regardless of whether the weapons are weak or less advance, his frigate won't be able to withstand 100 cannons firing simultaneously.
"How is this race detecting us?" he asked his officers.
"Unknown sir, situation seems to indicate that they either have better sensors or instead, are seeing us visually," they replied.
"Visual? Yes, stealth systems only hides scanners from sensing, it doesn't make the ship visually invisible," the Lieutenant muttered.
"Lieutenant," one of the officers called, bringing Verik's attention from his thoughts, "I'm currently finding no traces of any Batarian ships and from the looks of it, this race didn't activate the Relay from this side either. It is highly likely that the Batarians and this race, didn't open the Relay."
"Is that so, then what destroyed the Batarians? No, that isn't as important right now," Lieutenant Verik said, "What's important right now is how to deal with this situation?"
The previous officer continued, "Also sir, I'm currently detecting no traces of Element Zero from their ship or station. In fact the only element zero the sensors can tell are the ones we're emitting and the Mass Relay."
"What?" Verik snapped his head towards the officer, "Are you certain?"
"Yes Sir."
Verik turned back to the screen showing the alien station, "Amazing...to think that this race was capable of creating such large ships without Element Zero."
Every single race the Citadel have met have utilised Element Zero. It was the most common feature of all space-faring species. Nearly every technology the council has implements Element Zero into it.
"Sir, I'm receiving a hail from the alien ship."
Quickly snapping out of his thoughts Lieutenant ordered, "Open it."
A voice speaking out surprisingly in the Salarian language came from the speakers.
"Attention unknown vessel, you are trespassing on SDF air space, surrender and power down your ship. This is your only warning. I repeat. Surrender and power down your ship."
Silence came in the CIC of the frigate as the message repeated itself.
One of the officers turned to the Lieutenant, "Sir?"
Lieutenant Manis is now stuck in another dilemma. The Turian fleet on the other side of the Relay is currently waiting for a message to be sent by them, informing the Turians of the situation. If they don't receive the message, the Turians are to automatically assume that the enemy have destroyed the frigate, and are to proceed through the Relay to engage the aliens.
However, if they do send a message, the aliens could interpret the act as non-surrendering and begin to bombard them with cannon fire.
Both acts will cause war between the Citadel and the unknown race and the Turians are only waiting for five more minutes.
On the other hand, informing the aliens of a large fleet on the other side of the Relay could be taken as a sign of an invasion force.
"Sir, the unknowns are powering their weapons. Its generating more power than anything seen before."
"Sir, the unknown ships are moving."
The message was still repeating itself while Lieutenant Verik was still choosing between his choices.
Unfortunately for the Lieutenant, the choice was taken away by a single sentence.
"Lieutenant! The Relay is activating!"
Eyes widening, Verik instantly went over the sensors to show that the Relay is indeed activating. Dread quickly filled the Salarian as he realised what is happening. The Turians are coming through.
On the other side of Relay 314
"Admiral Krutus, the fleet is ready," Lieutenant Commander Frakira reported.
Admiral Krutus nodded as he looked over the CIC images showing the entire fleet at his command. The suppression force consist of ships from the 1st fleet, to the 16th fleet. Numbering at the total of 1600 ships it also included 10 dreadnoughts, some taken from other fleets. One of which is the flagship he is riding on, Pavalen's Honour. This is the largest concentration of ships to occur ever since the Krogan Rebellions.
The Asari ships carrying the diplomats will be arriving a few more days in Galactic Standard time. Days that they don't have. The entire fleet as given the order to wait for 10 minutes while the STG do their job of scouting. If a message came back from the Relay they are to respond accordingly. If a message doesn't come, they are to go through to confirm the status of the STG frigate and if needed attack the alien force.
There were still 5 minutes left before the fleet was required to go through when a message came from the Hierarchy. It gave the instructions to send the fleet through and make the enemy race surrender, with force if necessary. The reason was not known but orders were orders and as Turians, they obey the orders regardless of how much they hate it.
"Give the order, all ships are to move through the Relay."
The hundreds of frigates and cruisers all moved as one as the Relay started to glow brighter before tendrils of energy branched off from the blue core, sending the fleet, thousands of kilometres away from their position.
"We are estimated to enter the unknown system within a few seconds," one of the ensigns said.
"I want all ships to prime their weapons and get ready to fire. Fighters are to prepare themselves. We are facing unknowns here, we have no idea on their numbers or their technology so be ready for anything," the Admiral ordered.
Soon the blue light of the Mass Effect fields disappeared with the entire fleet entering the Arcturus System. Sensors were instantly active as technicians scanned the area.
"Scans shows 3 large planets orbiting a star. One of them has a city and seems to have lots of satellites for some reason. About 300,000 kilometres away from the planet I'm reading up to 35 contacts, I'm not picking up the STG frigate though it may be because it still has its stealth system on."
Admiral Krutus took a deep breath as he surveyed the scene, at the moment they currently have more ships than the unknown so that's reassuring, next was how advance the race is, "What can you tell me about the contacts?"
Silence, came as the answer causing the Admiral to press his mandibles together, "What's wrong?"
Snapping out of his stupor, the officer turned to the Admiral, "Sorry sir, its just that the sensors are showing 20 cruiser sized ships, more than 10 ships are dreadnought sized and 5 ships are bigger than the Destiny Ascension."
The last statement shocked most of the crew in the CIC to the same silence the officer had. 20 cruisers was understandable, 10 dreadnoughts while surprising and a bit worrying was still acceptable, but 5 ships bigger than the Destiny Ascension was ridiculous. The Destiny Ascension was the pride of the Asari fleet being 3.5 kilometres long. There exist only one in the entire Citadel fleet and yet here is a race with 5 ships bigger than that.
"How in the name of the spirits, did this race manage to build ships that large without burning up their Element Zero Cores?" the Admiral asks.
Then came the next shock, "Uh...sir? I reading no signs of Element Zero on their ships."
If the Admiral was drinking, this will be the perfect time for a spit take. "..What?"
Before the Admiral can even contemplate that sentence, the comms officers calls out, "Admiral Krutus, I'm receiving hails from one of their ships. Its being broadcast on a continuous loop."
"Play it."
"Attention unknown vessel, you are trespassing on SDF air space, surrender and power down your ship. This is your only warning. I repeat. Surrender and power down your ship."
"How did they obtain the Salarian language?" Admiral Krutus asks as his omni-tool shows that the language being played is the Salarian language.
The Lieutenant next to him shook his head, "Unknown sir, they could have taken it fro-wait, I'm receiving another hail sir, its from the STG frigate Strike First."
In front of the Admiral, a holographic screen appeared, showing the Salarian Lieutenant.
"Admiral Krutus, just what are you doing?" shouted the Lieutenant, rage filling the Salarians face.
"Following orders, there have been a change of plans. The entire fleet was given the order to move in and suppress this new race by any means necessary." the Admiral replied smoothly.
"That's impossible, the council wouldn't give such an order."
"The Hierarchy was the one that gave the order, and as much as I hate to say it, we Turians follow orders from the Hierarchy first."
"This is an outrage Admiral! The councillors won't accept this."
"I know, I would suggest you evacuate from this place, it will soon become a war zone."
"Fine, but the Councillors will hear a full report coming from me."
With that the screen close off, with the Turian refocused back on the holographic map as the STG frigate soon left the system via the Mass Relay. Signalling the comms officer Krutus ordered, "Hail the ship that is broadcasting, tell them to surrender or they will be fired upon. Make sure to use the Salarian language."
"Yes sir."
A moment of silence occurred as the message is being sent. "Admiral, the ships are aiming their guns towards us."
"Sir I got a reply."
"Well what is it."
"They refused."
While the Admiral was hoping for no bloodshed it seems that he has no choice. "Very well, all ships are to engage at will once we're in range. GARDIAN lasers are to be active just in case. I want to finish this as quickly as possible."
"Yes Sir."
The fleet of 1600 ships moved together. With the dreadnoughts long range they fired first. The Pavalen's Honour shuddered as it fired its Mass Accelerator Cannon. 10 Rounds travelling at 1.3% the speed of light flew across the night sky before impacting on the SDF's ships. To the surprise of the Admiral, instead of punching through the ships, the rounds instead hit a blue bubble like field that rippled from the point of impact. When it disappeared the ships were completely undamaged. The same thing happened to all the other ships. Before the Admiral can even voice his shock the retaliation came.
Hundreds of explosions rocked the entire area where the Turian fleet was. Massive orbs of pure energy ripped apart the frigates and cruisers. The shock wave of the explosion was enough to knock several ships into each other causing even more destruction.
"Sir, the frigates Spear of the Spirits and Resolution are down. Also the cruisers-"
"Sir, we have over 500 ships destroyed and 4 dreadnoughts confirmed down-"
" The shields are down, massive damages in the hull and thrusters sir, we are leaking air in sector 22."
Admiral Krutus dragged himself back onto the table as the explosion knocked him down, "What in the name of Pavalen hit us?"
One of the officers replied, "Sir whatever it was, it was undetectable and exploded with a force of 430 megatons, it was stronger than anything we have ever used."
Blood drained from the Admiral's face, "Did we get hit by nukes?"
The officer shook his head, "No sir, there wasn't any sign of radiation. Whatever it was, it was pure energy conversion."
Only a few minutes in the battle and they have already lost over a quarter of their entire fleet.
"Admiral, I'm reading massive energy surges at the alien ships!"
"Contacts, coming through the Relay, five, ten, twenty-seven, forty-three, fifty-six, its still rising."
Captain Roy can only watch with widening eyes as a gigantic fleet far outnumbering his own came through the Transit Gate. While majority of the ships seems to be corvette sized or about the same size as his frigates, there were a few that matched the Destroyers in size.
"Alice, how many are there?"
The AI re-materialised before facing the Captain, "Sensors read up to 1600 ships not including the Salarian ship from before though it seems to have left. From what I have gathered from the Salarian computers, these belong to the other race of the Citadel Council, the Turians."
"What can you tell me about the Turians?"
"They are an avian like race, bipedal, and from the looks of it, surprisingly similar to us. They are a militaristic race and have doctrines similar to our own only we are far more diverse."
"If the entire human race went up against them can we win?"
"In terms of numbers they outnumber us, being at least 3 times the size of our full fleet. However, in terms of technology, we are of much higher quality than the Citadel. Unless they play real smart with their numbers, we can win against the Turians. Against the entire Citadel Council, not even I can predict that without more information."
Alice's body shifted for a moment before creating what seems to be a small letter, "Sir, one the alien vessel is hailing us, with a message in the Salarian language."
Captain Cruz turned to the AI of his ship, "Open it."
"This is the Turian Suppression Force, under the laws of the Hierarchy and the Citadel Council, you are to surrender your ships and prepare to be boarded. Failure to do so and we will destroy you."
Silence came on the bridge as the soldiers look to their captain for instructions.
Captain Roy, took a deep breath before saying, "When the Cingrinus invaded, we didn't have any fancy technology or space ships to fight back. All we had was weak computers, old fighters and ourselves. Yet despite this we still won. Then we got invaded again, this time by the Aquiods. We once again proved our might when we brought them down from their large ships. Shortly after that, we got invaded by the Reagents. Like all the other times, we manage to defeat against forces with far superior technology and numbers," he glared at the troops surrounding him, "Why should this be any different? These alien bastards tried to snuff out humanity many times before in the past and yet each time we won. We are the ones that prevailed in the end. And just like before, we will win this. Remember our motto people, 'We do not go quietly into the night. We do not vanish without a fight. We're going to live. We're going to survive. WE ARE HUMANITY! AND WE DO NOT SURRENDER!'"
Cheers filled every channel in the SDF side. A smile appeared on the Captain's face before vanishing as he stated, "Alice you know what to do."
The young girl gave a sharp but playful salute as she sent the refusal message, "Captain the reinforcements from command won't reach here until 10 minutes."
"I'm pretty sure we can at least hold for 10 minutes," the Captain said, "Activate the mines, ship formation Gamma, charge up the Wave Motion Cannon, set it to fire mode Meteor Shower, we are trying to take down as many as possible. Defence satellites are to fire at will the moment it starts. How are the drones doing?"
"The drones are ready to be launched at any time. Drillers and Shooters are set, and fighters are ready to whoop some ass sir," the comms officer answered
"SIR THEY'RE FIRING!" shouted a soldier.
From the Turian side, 10 fast streaks of light flew towards their position. Just before it hit, the forcefield rippled as it deflected the rounds from hitting the hull.
"Shields down to 93%."
The Captain paused for a moment letting that statement sink in. Blinking he asked, "That's all?"
"That's all sir," the officer chuckled, "It seems that their weapons are weaker than expected."
"Captain, the mines are active and armed." said Alice as a screen appeared showing bright yellow circles enveloping red triangles.
Shock waves shook the bridge as the explosions of the stealth mines went off. These antimatter mines are strong enough to rip through a Cingrinus City Destroyer's forcefield and they were known to have some of the strongest shields ever created. A SDF battlecruiser's shields will just barely be able to withstand a direct blast from one of these mines.
"Sir Wave Motion Cannon is fully charged at 120%"
"Fire!" roared the Captain. On the bows of the SDF ships, a small opening uncovered itself as blue particles began to gather. Then, like the fury of the gods, giant beams of blue light flew towards the Turian fleet.
"Incoming!" shouted one of the soldiers as the blue beam of death flew towards their positions. To the surprise of the Turians however, the beams contracted 1000 kilometres away before splitting off into hundreds of smaller beams. Fire balls engulfed the entire air space as ship after ship was destroyed, the energy beams piercing through the armour and completely ignoring the shields. Some were unlucky enough to be caught within the explosions of the destroyed ships.
"By the spirits..." muttered the Admiral, "What is this race?" The concept of direct energy weapons was not new to the Citadel races. However, to actually create an energy weapon powerful enough to cross vast distances in order to be use as main weapons, are still theoretical.
"We've lost the 3rd, 6th, 7th, and the 14th fleet sir. We've also lost the dreadnoughts Unbreakable, and Impassable. The rest are either too badly damaged or the crew in them are dead."
The entire fleet had a total of 1600 ships at the beginning. Now there are less than 700 ships. Over 900 ships have been destroyed within the first 3 minutes of the battle and many more suffering damages or are incapable of battle. Thousands of Turian lives have been lost and yet they have yet to even damage the enemy fleet.
Knowing he had to act quickly, Admiral Krutus ordered, "Those that are capable, fire everything you have at those ships, concentrate fire, those shields must have a limit. The damage ones are to retreat beyond the relay. Get the fighters out there now. Have the 2nd and 5th fleet flank them from the sides."
Lieutenant Frakira asked, "Are you sure Admiral? A retreat would be a better option right now. We know too little of their capabilities." Turians have strict military doctrines and one of them includes learning about the enemy first and not charging in blindly.
Shaking his head, the Admiral answered, "We have no choice. We have no idea when they can fire that energy weapon of their's again and I doubt they would be able to continuously fire that weapon no matter how advance they are. All weapons have weaknesses, we just need to know what it is and exploit them."
The crew cheered as the alien fleet before them quickly reduced in numbers. The cheers were quickly erased as the Turians returned fire only this time there were many times more rounds flying before them. Like before, the forcefield deflect the majority of the rounds however some cruisers show signs of weakening.
"Looks like they got a pretty good fire rate," the Captain stated before asking, "How long before we can fire the Wave Motion Cannon again?"
The AI did a quick check within half a second before answering, "About 5 mins at the current recharge rate. The reinforcements will take another 7 minutes."
"Alright, all ships fire at will with whatever you have. Get the ODS firing as well." ordered the Captain, "Oh and Alice?"
"Yes Captain?" the small girl asked.
"Release the drones."
AND DONE!
Sorry for those who hate cliff hangers.
Hope you enjoy the battle scenes. They are not really original but you can't really get much tactics at the current moment. Not when the number difference is so big. I wanted originally to do something like what Space Battleship Yamato did when she plunged straight into a giant fleet by herself and literally caused mass panic before ending the battle by firing the WMC at a planet causing it to explode destroying the entire fleet.
The speech to be truthful wasn't my best at all. I suck at telling stories with very descriptive scenes. Its hard to express them correctly.
And I didn't show much new tech either. So sorry about that. The next chapter will show some of the newer toys that my Humanity will have courtesy of the invading aliens from the past.
Codex
SDF ship classes
Corvettes 200 - 500 metres
Frigates 500 -700 metres
Destroyers 1,000-1,500 metres
Cruisers 1,700 - 2,100 metres
Carriers 4,000 - 5,000 metres
Battlecruisers 6,000 - 8,000 metres
Dreadnoughts 9,000 - 11,000 metres
Battleships 12,000 - 13,000 metres
Supercarriers 14,000 - 15,000 metres
Superdreadnoughts 17,000 metres - 18,000 metres
Capital Ships 19,000 - 20,000 metres
SDF ships
Corvettes - Lightly armoured but highly manoeuvrable. These are the scout ships of the fleets and are mainly used to swarm the enemy or for patrols. They carry the least amount of guns and while they do have a WMC, it is rarely used since this ship is more useful for its mobility. It is also used as a stealth ship given its small stature. Many scientific vessels and exploration ones such as the Prometheus-type is within the corvette class.
Frigates - The backbone of many fleets, this class of ship is one of the most numerous. They carry the standard equipment for most ships and are considered the bases for many ship designs of the larger classes. Like the corvette, they are also used for stealth operations.
Destroyers - Unique to the human fleets. This class of ship is design for only one thing. Anti-ship warfare. Its very design was made to fight against enemy ships regardless of what class it is. It is prepared with a unique set of armaments designed to take on any ship it encounters and easily adaptable to the situation. Another unique setting was that it can be remodelled to have literally thousands of missile silos and drones along with a very intensive electronic system.
Cruisers - Second most numerous. These ships are the bridge between a frigate and a dreadnought. Design to support both classes, it can also do stand alone missions if required and carries its own set of fighters and drones.
Carriers - Another unique ship class only for humanity. This ship was designed to bring support to the other ships by providing thousands of fighters and drones. It does have a WMC but like the corvette it rarely is used. Instead it is saved in case the ship needs to travel through FTL to escape. It usually sits at the back of the fleet.
Battlecruisers - A larger and much meaner cruiser. These are the ones in charge of leading fleets or representing when a dreadnought is unavailable. They have much more fire power than a regular cruiser and still retains the mobility of one.
Dreadnoughts - Generally the flag ships of fleets. These behemoths are capable of taking entire fleets on their own. They have extremely dense hulls and powerful shields making them nearly impossible to take down.
Battleships - Basically, the long range artillery ships of the fleet. Similar to a dreadnought, they trade mobility for fire power and defence. The main difference however is the range. Battleships are capable of firing much farther than many other ships. In fact, it is because that they fire so far that some of the range is rendered useless since the distance is long enough to give the enemy enough time to dodge.
Supercarriers - In the nickname given by the soldiers. A giant mobile flying base. Unlike the regular carriers, these flying fortresses are capable of going head to head with other ships while still fulfilling its role as a support craft in transporting fighters and troops. When landed on a planet, they essentially function as temporary bases. One of these ships are capable of supply an entire army for weeks even months if necessary.
Superdreadnoughts - There are only 4 of these ships in existence. Each one is armed with 3 Wave Motion Engines and 2 Wave Motion guns. These ships can literally shrug off almost anything. Not much else is revealed.
Capital Ships - There exist only one of these ships. The Noah. It is the biggest ship ever created by mankind. More powerful than any other ship and carries 4 Wave motion engines. This ship is powerful enough to enter the sun and exit without any damage. These leviathans are capable of taking on entire armies by itself and functions as a carrier as well.
Stealth Antimatter Mines: Stealth Antimatter Mines or SAMMs are traingular pyramid shaped mines. Inside they contain up to 10 kilograms of antimatter providing up to 430 megatons of TNT. These mines remains invisible to both sensors and are small enough to be ignored as debris. It is capable of being invisible and has the ability to literally chase the enemy ships. If the enemy ship is too fast it has the ability to use part of its ordinance as a fuel to launch itself at high speeds towards the enemy.
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