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Galaxy maps are available on request. Just private message me your email address. I highly recommend it as the description of the Star Wars territory is hard to visualize. Unfortunately no Stargate galaxy map exists.


The Babylon 5 universe is here simply because I needed two extra races to be founding members and a way of FTL that wasn't hetch as that creates more problems than it solves. B5 hyperspace explains why the races haven't left the unknown regions and provides a couple of benefits.

Star wars hyperspace was given to the galaxy by some ancient and forgotten race. Sound familiar? My take on it is that it's the same as Stargate hyperspace except its not as well reverse engineered so you can only go in a straight line and not make course corrections meaning you have to plot the jump so you don't fly though things that Stargate hyper drives go around. Also stopping basically means cutting power to the drive when you think your in the right place making it very inaccurate and its horrendously underpowered making it slow and unable to operate in a gravity well.


Chapter 7 The Peacekeeper Wars

4,000 years ago – Arnessk

The sith main fleet dropped out of hyperspace consisting of some 400 capitol ships 1000 escorts. Immediately they opened fire with a massed volley straight into the defenders and launched fighters from the capitol ships. Turbo laser fire pored away from the ships like a red river while fighter squadrons cleared the capitol ships and assembled into screening formations in front of them.

Facing them across the vastness of the system was the combined Peacekeeper/Minbari fleet. As soon as the sith probes had left the fleet had immediately redeployed and was now in a crescent moon formation. At the centre of the formation was the Command Carrier Protector, flagship of the fleet, and the majority of the other command carriers were surrounding her. In front and to both sides the rest of the centre section of the line was Peacekeeper heavy cruisers and their escorts with a dozen or so command carriers anchoring either side of the Peacekeeper formation. On the right and left flanks the Minbari fleet arranged in a similar manner with the two Shargotti Command Cruisers in the centre of each flank surrounded by Sharlin class war cruisers, Tanashi frigates made up the rest of the flanks with several dozen Sharlins anchoring the far flanks of the fleet and the edge of the Peacekeeper formations. The Dilgar warships were positioned behind the main fleet in two groups. Both were of similar size and were made up of frigates and cruisers. The remaining ¼ of the Dilgar fleet which was all of their dreadnoughts was nowhere to be seen.


Command Carrier Protector

Admiral Sarah Andromeda winced as she saw the numbers of the Sith fleet. They had done as she feared and deployed their whole fleet leaving only a token force behind to defend the staging area. While her own force was larger with 600 capitol ships and 1200 escorts, only 250 of them were Command Carriers and the sith had them out armoured and out gunned. "First things first" she thought "we have the strike craft advantage and I fully intend to make the Sith admiral to dance to my tune in that area if nothing else. Hopefully he's the typically bully boy size obsessed commander the Sith like to promote and he wont concentrate on my strike craft to much." "Deploy all fighters and Liandras in front of the fleet" she ordered "I want them to engage the sith fighters but make sure they stay out of range of the sith escorts"


Peacekeeper Prowler

Officer Tavo Crais received orders from the Protector to advance on the Sith forces and he hit is com button to relay them to his squad "Ok pilots" he said "we are to join up with the Dilgar thoruns and Minbari nials and liandras and advance on the Sith fleet while the marauders and escorts protect our big guns. Do not enter range of the Sith escorts, we want to lure their fighters away from them and then cut them to pieces. Remember we're faster and more manuverable than they are so take advantage of it" Hitting his own throttle as the order to advance came through the Peacekeeper, Dilgar and Minbari fighters with the larger liandra anti starfighter gun ships dispersed among them poured out in a swarm heading for the Sith fighters that had abandoned the safety of the escort ships guns and were rushing out to meet them.


Minbari Shargotti War Cruiser Drala'fi

Alyt Neroon looked at the tactical display on the bridge of his warcruiser "at least Admiral Andromeda is competent" he thought "I had my reservations as she is not Minbari but she has chosen excellently, our fighter craft will decimate the Siths especially with liandra gunship support. We can't win this fight by the big guns slugging it out, much as it pains me to say it the Sith have to much of a technological advantage for that to work"

"Alyt Neroon the Protector is ordering the fleet to go to ahead half speed. Targeting orders are any of opportunity but we are to focus our main firepower on the escorts not the capitol ships" his communication officer translated the orders from the flagship

"Very well ahead half, power up the stealth system and target the neutron and fusion beams on the enemy escorts. The gunners are to ignore the capitol ships unless they think they have a chance of a kill. For the Glory of Minbar!"


Peacekeeper Prowler

Officer Tavo Crais cursed as he threw his prowler into a left roll to avoid the expanding ball of wreckage that just a moment ago had been his wingman. "The dammed sith are not sloppy" he thought coming out if the role and lining up on a sith fighter from above and to the left "they have superb amour and its keeping them in the fight" the fighter dodged and weaved in front making his shots go wide "Stay still you bastard" he screamed aloud in his cockpit just then one of his shots connected blowing off the left wing of the sith fighter which promptly began to spin allowing him to finish it off. Swerving right to avoid the debris Crais found himself in the sights of a duo of sith fighters but before he could dodge the golden body of a liandra gunship swooped overhead firing its dozen gun turrets at any fighter that was in range. The two about to blow Crais's fighter out from under him promptly exploded in twin fireballs as the liandra continued its graceful arc looking for more fighters to destroy and trying to shake a fighter that had slipped in behind it and was pouring fire into its engines. Crais hit his turbos and went after them at an angle hoping to come in from below and blast the fighter that was giving his savoir so much trouble when bright balls of orange light larger than the gunship flew past followed quickly by bright green beams. The big guns had entered the battle.


Command Carrier Protector

Admiral Andromeda winced as another command carrier, the Zelbinion, disintegrated under the sustained turbolaser fire of the Sith Fleet. The defence screens of the Command Carriers were not withstanding turbolaser fire well while the shields of the Sith fleet were dealing with frag cannon blasts and the Minbari beams all to well. Already she'd lost several capitol ships and dozens of escorts and only four Sith capitol ships were destroyed in return although, she noted with satisfaction, her fleet was taking a heavy toll on the Sith escort ships with their weaker shields and amour and the sith fighter craft were all but destroyed "deploy the marauders into the fighter battle" she ordered "With so many of the siths fighters destroyed our escort ships should be able to deal with any that break through."


Minbari Shargotti War Cruiser Drala'fi

Alyt Neroon was knocked off his feet as Drala'fi rocked as one of her escort Sharlins, Ingata, succumbed to the Sith barrage. Picking himself up and avoiding the fallen support beam and sparking electronics Neroon checked the tactical display again. The entry of the marauders in to the fighter battle had decimated what was left of the sith ranks and their strike craft capability was effectively broken "which is a good thing" Neroon thought "as the main battle is not going nearly as well". The crescent moon formation of the fleet was showing very jagged edges where cruisers had been destroyed by concentrated fire from the sith capitol ships. The three centre groups had fared better but only because the Sith were focusing on the join of the Peacekeeper and Minbari formations and the Command Carriers and Sharlins there had taken heavy losses repelling the siths attempts to split the Minbari and Peacekeepers off from each other. "Fools" Neroon thought as another capitol ship attempted to charge the centre of the fleet. This would have been a good tactic if the fleet was in line formation like most Republic fleets but the crescent moon formation ensured any ship charging the centre took fire from three sides simultaneously and not even superior shields and amour could save ships from that. He watched with a great deal of satisfaction as the dagger shaped sith capitol ship franticly attempted to turn around as its shields collapsed and frag cannon blasts started to blow chunks out of the hull. The floor vibrated as Drala'fi's gunners noticed the siths weakness and tuned the neutron and fusion beams on the ship. Green beams tore glowing trenches deep into the hull slicing the command tower and the front of the ship straight off, fires burned from the trenches and holes as the ship fell apart under the onslaught. "It's not enough though" thought Neroon as he watched three Tanashis vanish from the tactical display in quick succession, our ship losses are approaching 30% while the siths are only at 18% and most of those are escorts. I hope Andromeda knows what she is doing otherwise this fleet is going to be destroyed"


Command Carrier Protector

As another Sharlin exploded taking a nearby Command Carrier and two cruisers with it Admiral Andromeda realized that the second phase of her plan would have to be put into action early as the fleet could not take many more losses before they lost their numerical advantage. "Contact Dominant Destiny and Unyielding Vendetta have them lead their battle groups in sweeping strikes, tell them to target escorts only unless capitol ships are vulnerable, emphasis on the anti starfighter escorts" the harassed command crew transmitted the orders at once.


Peacekeeper Prowler

Tavo Crais spun his prowler searching for another target and bore witness to the Dilgar entering the battle. The two halves of the Dilgar fleet accelerated and flew around the edges of the crescent formation of the main fleet before slamming into the sides of the Sith formation, using their speed the Dilgar warships used slashing attacks to badly damage the Sith. Crais watched as a Dilgar pentacan of three cruisers screamed down on the Sith their bolters firing constantly, shields collapsed and hulls exploded as the bolters rained down on the sith escorts. Unable to turn or role fast enough to bring weapons to bear on the Dilgar, who were striking from above and below rather than on the two dimensional battlefield that the sith had arranged their ships on, the cruisers were lasting far longer than had been predicted and were scoring impressive kills. Crais cheered as a sith escort folded in on itself when bolters warped and deformed the amidships, its stern and bow touched before the reactors lost containment and it blew up spectacularly. Unfortunately that would be the last kill this pentacan would make as one of the capitol ships finally reoriented itself and sent out a wave of turbolaser fire straight in the cruisers path, with no time to react one Dilgar cruiser ran headlong into this wall of fire and quite simply disintegrated under the onslaught, another franticly turned so fast that the space frame must have been pushed to its limits but it was for naught as in the crowded battlefield the cruiser ploughed bow first into a sith capitol ship punching through the upper half of the claw and partly into the second before it lost containment blasting both ships into fragments that slammed into the surrounding escorts. The final ship took several hits but flew on with flames spewing out of holes in the hull, resolutely it slowed and then turned round for another attack run.

"Dam it why aren't we being sent to help?" Crais thought "there are virtually no fighters left and the fleet has been stripping their anti starfighter defence for the entire battle. The sith ships are just bunching tighter and tighter together overlapping their fields of fire and the Dilgar ships don't have the amour to run into that kind of firepower and survive" his prediction came true as the Dilgar ships casualties started to mount. Having lost a third of their ships they turned and ran back to the main fleet. The sith fleet, having learned its lesson was now bunched as tightly together as possible and stayed that way as they advanced perusing the fleeing Dilgar ships and once more opening up on the fleet. Crais watched in despair as defence screens failed, amour shattered and the allied ships began to die once more.


Minbari Shargotti War Cruiser Drala'fi

"Incompetence" raged Alyt Neroon internally as he watched the Dilgar run back to the main fleet having dished out, but also taken heavy losses. "We could have had them! If the starfighters had been sent in as well they could possibly have turned the tide of this battle in our favour but now the opportunity is lost." He was about to order a direct line to Andromeda to have her to transfer command to him when his com officer beat him to it

"Flagship signalling sir. One word, Nemesis"

"what the hell does that mean?" Neroon thought "It's a pre planned order obviously but with the failure of the Dilgar charge I can't see anything that will win this battle for us"

Outside in the ranks of the tightly bunched sith fleet small dots of white light appeared. These quickly expanded into full orange jump point vortexes that tore and shredded the shields and hulls of the sith fleet. Hundreds of ships died as the power of the vortexes quite literally ripped them apart, dagger shaped capitol ships were torn in half and the claws ripped open and escorts pulled in multiple directions were ripped into pieces and those ships that did survive took heavy damage to their shields. It was into this perfectly executed jump point attack that the Dilgar dreadnoughts missing since the start of the battle emerged with their bolters blazing.

Neroon fought down the urge to let his mouth drop open in surprise. "I had forgotten about the Dilgar capitol ships" he thought "I had assumed they had been deployed in Arnessk orbit as a last line of defence should we fail here. Instead Andromeda had them standing by in jumpspace and was feeding them direct information from the ships in battle. After forcing the sith to bunch up she ordered them to jump in destroying hundreds of ships and that's why she couldn't deploy the starfighters, they'd have been massacred in the attack." "What are you staring at? Keep firing!" he ordered. The crew jumped to obey and Drala'fi's weapons spoke once more.


Command Carrier Protector

Admiral Sarah Andromeda breathed a sigh of relief as the Dilgar dreadnoughts powered through the sith fleet and formed up with her own taking the place of destroyed Command Carriers and Sharlins. It had been a risky manuver denying the fleet the firepower of the Dilgar capitol ships but the jump point attack had caused horrendous casualties among the Sith justifying the risk. "Come on gain some distance" she willed the sith fleet to obey and as if the Sith Admiral had heard her words the Sith fleet began to scatter abandoning its close knit formation to avoid another jump point attack. "Yes" she thought "Order all starfighters and gunships to close on and engage the sith fleet and order the two Dilgar battle groups to resume their strafing runs. As soon as the Dilgar dreadnoughts have formed up with us order the fleet to full ahead and target anything that has low or failed shields" She said to the crew. "we may just win this"


Peacekeeper Prowler

Tavo Crais had a new respect for the sneakiness of Admiral Andromeda but he did not have time to think on it as he was busy tying not to fly into fully functional ships, dead and burning ships or large pieces of wreckage floating around while he took pot-shots at the sith capitol ships. With most of the anti starfighter escorts destroyed earlier in the battle the starfighters were having a relatively easy time of it as the capitol ships had little in the way of starfighter defence instead relying on their escorts and the few times they had tried firing ship to ship weaponry at him they hit each other. Crais let out a very unprofessional whoop as he destroyed yet another gun turret on the capitol ship he was strafing, de clawing it and making it little more than floating target practice for the fleet. His fellow pilots were doing the same on all ships that had lost their shields and the fleet had noticed and was concentrating their fire long enough to bring down a ships shields and then moving on leaving the fighters to destroy its armament. "we might actually win this" Crais thought as another gun turret bit the dust and a turbolaser bolt flew passed him burying itself in the escort behind him causing it to explode. Of course that was when it all went wrong.


Minbari Shargotti War Cruiser Drala'fi

Alyt Neroon watched with undisguised horror as, despite her escorts throwing themselves in front of her, shot after shot of turbolaser fire buried themselves in the Shargotti war cruiser Trigati. The noble ship gave a good accounting of herself her beams firing as fast as possible even as the turbolasers blew chunks of her crystalline amour off into space but the damage was just to great and the Trigati broke up and exploded


Command Carrier Protector

"Admiral the Minbari flagship has been destroyed! The left flank is collapsing!" one of the junior officers screamed out

"No" Admiral Andromeda thought "Not now, not when were so close" but without the Trigati's guidance the left flank was breaking up and falling out of formation, the sith recognized the weakness and made a one last charge and unfortunately if the Minbari ships didn't recover quickly then they were going to win. Andromeda turned to James Koren who was standing next to her "I realize that this will mean revealing the presence of a force user and increase the likeness of the sith coming back but if you don't use your battle meditation to turn the tide It won't matter because they are going to destroy this entire fleet and there are no more ships left to create another one."

James looked at the tactical display and saw that she was right. He quickly sat down and began to meditate reaching out to the allied fleet and giving them confidence and awareness of what every other ship was doing. At the same time he touched the minds of the sith and filled them with despair and disorganized them


Minbari Shargotti War Cruiser Drala'fi

"Why was I ever worried? Neroon questioned himself as confidence flooded through him "The left flank is already firming up and the sith fleets attack is petering out" He didn't have to yell at the crew to fire faster, they were already doing it.

Two hours later the sith fleet retreated into hyperspace. They had arrived with 1400 ships. They left with 256.


4000 years ago – Abydos

Tok'ra Queen Egeira was quietly wondering how long Ra was going to go on. Ever since the ashrack that had captured her had brought her to him half an hour ago Ra had been monologue mode. I am a god, blah blah, how dare you defy my divine will, blah blah, you will suffer eternally, blah blah. Inwardly she smiled at her hosts comment that if Ra was human he would be the sort of man that used a ruler to settle arguments with other men. Neither she nor her host were worried about dying, she knew whatever he did to her he would eventually be overthrown, her children would see to it.

Ra found his prisoner smiling at him in the middle of his monologue very disconcerting.


Google image searches will provide pictures of most of the ships here but they won't be making an appearance again so you don't need to worry to much unless your curious.

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