Chapter 9
"SUPER STAR DESTROYER"
Aragon 7 System
Planet Aragon
Formerly a Pre-Industrialized World
The Sixteenth UN Spacys Main Fleet
1 thousand Light Years Crossing the Beta Quadrant to the Delta Quadrant
UN-ECSSD 'Skywalker'The Flagship of the of the Sixteenth Fleet have finish firing her Main Reflex Gun, 'The Grand Cannon' at a Vorlon/Minbari combined Fleet of 1,350 ships mostly and one Vorlon Planet Killer. The Fleet had arrived too late after receiving an interplanetary SOS. What they found is another world burning, but in Admiral Claudia Grant and her crew, what they see is Earth at the time of 'The Rain of Death' all over again.
The fleet was in route to Delta Quadrant via crossing the Beta Quadrant using the shortest route possible, but for one week of their journey, the Fleet had run into a Vorlon/Minbari Forces sterilizing a defenseless planet of all life.
The UN Fleet led by Admiral Claudia Grant, who is very much upset seeing another planet bombed out of existence, so she took it upon herself to eradicate these Barbarians from murdering more defenseless worlds.
Before the battle started, they ask them why they did such a thing, but they gave no answer or reasons why they did it.
The UN Spacys followed certain rules of engagement, however their adversary had a different rule to follow, and so they just attack them without even answering their messages.
With a hostile response, The Sixteenth Fleet them gave no quarter in the battle since the Vorlons and Minbari gave none to a defenseless people of the world they just exterminated.
Despite the primary mission of her fleet, Admiral Claudia Grant decided to blow the hell out any Vorlon or Minbari fleet along their path to the Delta Quadrant so, the Sixteenth Fleet sent out Scouters in systems ahead of them.
Half an hour later, the Scouters found another fleet, which was not far, and is in the process of breaching a planetary shield of some sort, the Planet and its people are called the 'Abbai'
Abbai Prime
100 lightyears from Aragon 7
The Abbai people are an advance race that possesses incredible shielding technology, which is now protecting their planet from a Vorlon Siege Fleet after laying waste to the rest of their system.
The Abbai were being forced to join the Vorlons on their so-called, holy cause to eradicate the Shadow-tainted people of the galaxy, and with their shielding technology, they can make the Minbari ships even stronger with a shield.
Though it would have been simple if the Vorlon's shared their own shield technology to the Minbari instead, but they did not do so. Their excuse was their shields were 'Incompatible' something that the Abbai find it hard to believe since they know that, most of the technology the Minbari uses came from them.
The Abbai refused them, and so as punishment, they are now being targeted for annihilation.
While the Vorlon ships is in the process of weakening the shields of the Abbai for their planet killer do its job properly, the Vorlon's suddenly felt the telepathic death cries of their brethrens from afar.
It was the eight times that they felt the mass death cries of their kind, and it all came from the other side of the galaxy, to the Alpha Quadrant.
However, this one was close…very close
Kosh Naranek, the Vorlon Diplomat and Chief Negotiator of this particular fleet have been very worried ever since they started this extermination of 'the pebbles' which they refer to the younger races of the galaxy. Particularly, they target those under the protection of powerful beings far older and more powerful races than they are, these worlds survived the last Shadow Wars and are now a highly advance society in the galaxy, and in their sector of space they establish several galactic organizations that keeps the peace for everyone in their sphere of influence.
The powerful and old races are referred to as 'The First Ones'. Beings that are very old and like the Vorlons, they are older and much more powerful than they are and in some cases, they achieved the highest level of evolution, which referred to it as 'Ascension' First ones that achieved ascension are people who no longer need a physical body, but they are alive as pure energy or a spirit.
One of these first ones that they have a particular problem with are the 'Juraians' and the galactic organization they established to keep peace is the 'Galaxy Alliance'
The Galaxy Alliance is one of dozens of other federation and unions that controls their corners of the galaxy while maintaining peace and order to their member worlds, and at the same time, they also give protection to worlds not yet capable of FTL travel until they matures.
They are 'The Protectorate Worlds' numbering by the thousands and keeping them safe is a priority for them in a galaxy that has so few of life and the causes of all that are the debate of old two races.
Millions of years ago, the whole galaxy, nearly became lifeless, thanks to 'The Shadow Wars' a battle of good and evil, as what the Vorlons/Shadows have advertised to the universe. The Shadow Wars have rage all across the galaxy and involving hundreds of world's everytime it starts up every thousands of years causing death and destruction at a massive scale.
The Shadow Wars continued for millions of years, until around 2 million years ago, a race from a small blue world questions the Shadow Wars and the true reason behind it.
They search the answers for their questions. The race that investigated the Shadow Wars at that time was called the 'Atlanteans' or best known today as the 'Ancients'.
They discovered that The Shadow Wars has nothing to do about good and evil, but a debate between two old races, the Vorlons and Shadows. Their debate was, to find out who is right and who is wrong in chaos or order.
They use the entire Milky Way Galaxy as their galactic chessboard, and using sentient worlds as their chess pieces, for whoever has the most surviving pieces wins.
In the Shadow Wars, those worlds involved in the wars were tampered with and influenced by them, they gave them knowledge to advance them to reach the stars and then readied them for battle like gladiators in an arena.
The Vorlons and the Shadow continued their debate for millions of years unhindered. Many races at that time were not yet aware of the truth of what they were doing; some of them have established empires and kingdoms and preferred to stay neutral in the war. The Shadows and Vorlon never bothered them or the worlds under their sphere. Both races were very cautious, if the truth was discovered it would be the end of their chess game.
When the Ancients found out the truth, the real truth of the Shadow Wars thru their investigation, they told this to their allies and the other species, exposing the deception that was the Shadow Wars. It was then that the Ancients decided to put a stop to it, and so, the Ancients and their allies sent out their forces to deal with these two races.
The 'Juraians', 'Asguard', 'Preservers' and 'Atlanteans' also known as the 'The Ancients', They are four of the Galaxy's most advance races, and they pushed both Vorlon's and Shadows back to their corner of the galaxy in order to end their chess game.
One hundred years later, The Shadow Wars have ended.
Before the shadow wars, it was estimated that, one out of five thousand starsystems had sentient life or had life, the Ancients made a census on the galaxy after the war, to see how many worlds were lost, the result have distraught them.
After nearly fifty millions years of the Shadow Wars, one out of a fifty thousand starsystems has life, but one out of one hundred starsystems have sentient life.
To the many worlds been devastated by the Wars, many have never recovered and died out. In addition, the ancients also found out that there were more victims of the two species not by the war, but were exterminated, for most of these worlds were influenced by the two species, many have refused to play their game or they were not up to their standard.
For Two Million Years both the Vorlons and the Shadows was never seen or heard from in the galaxy. They stayed in their quadrant of the galaxy in their own sector of space, recovering from their war with the ancients.
Then just around ten thousand years ago, The Vorlons have begun to amassed a huge armada and have started gathering intelligence on their enemies and setting up tachyon beacons for their minions in the Beta Quadrant.
The Vorlon have been influencing many worlds in secret again in their quadrant, but only the Minbari has their focused attention, as they molded them to what they deemed appropriate, and waited for the opportunity to strike and take back the galaxy as their ancient enemies were disappearing.
That opportunity came.
The Asguard have gone back to their home galaxy and has not been heard of for nearly a million years, the Preservers have said to have ascended, and some say the Ancients as well. Only the Juraians, the original of the four is still around.
When they started a new war, they primarily targeted the Juraians and the former Ancients protectorate worlds, now part of the Galaxy Alliance. One world in particular, was once the homeworld of the Ancients (Earth). Their once mortal enemies have been long gone but they are aware of the second evolution of their species have appeared to take their place among the stars, and they are called 'Humans'
Vorlons have limited knowledge of what happened on earth from the alien contacts they are relying to get information from. In fact, their only contact that they are able to get information about them, are the 'Centauri' the only race in the Beta Quadrant that was able to travel that far into the Alpha Quadrant.
Vorlons are unable to travel the spaceways or the hyperspace dimension known as Jumpspace around the Alpha Quadrant or anywhere in the galaxy thanks to the Ancients special safety measures.
Half a Million of years ago, the ancients set up secret tracking systems and hidden automated spacestations to monitor vessels across the galaxy (primarily they watch Vorlons and Shadow vessels) using their FTL or the jumpspace dimension.
When the Vorlons tried to make a move out of their sector of space, they were detected and intercepted. However, when the Ancients disappeared ten thousand years ago, many of these stations went dark or broke down after a thousand years of service.
Today Jurai and the Galaxy Alliance now use what remains of that system as an early warning system; they made sure that no one who uses Jumpspace method of travel to establish Jump gates or tachyon beacons on their sectors of space without permission from the sentient races or developing worlds.
From the Centauri, the Vorlons also knows that the Earth have suffered a devastating attack from powerful forces from another galaxy. They were victorious, but at great cost.
The Vorlons also know that the humans have started spread across 20 starsystems for such a short time after that, and now possess a formidable military. All of their Intel is all based on Centauri observation on Wolf 359, the United Nations of Earth Free Trade Center that they made first contact 2 years ago.
Since then, the Centauri have been observing The UN Spacys military that are station there for quite a while now. They observed their starships, fighters and small spacecrafts, and monitored them as much as they could and evaluate threat assessments.
However, some ships they were observing came from the famous genre 'STAR WARS' famous squadrons of 'X-Wings' , 'Tie-Fighters' and 'YT-3000' or best known as the Millennium Falcon including one ship called the 'Gunstar' from the movie 'The Last Starfighter' and also small shuttles like the ones in 'Space 1999' called 'Eagles'
The UN Spacys did not station any Veritech's there or any Mecha's or their Battleships, for knowing that they will be observe by alien military intelligence, and not stationing them there was a good idea.
This was a way to keep them guessing their real strength, and yet, the Star Wars ships themselves are formidable in their own right though the actual version has more choices of weaponry other than a turbolasers.
With information such as this, the Vorlons analyze their threat potential, and believe that the humans may pose a threat to them, but since they are such a young race and know very little in space warfare, they thought that destroying them first would be easy, for their only concern are the Juraians and the Galaxy Alliance.
If they have only known how inadequate their Intel was, then they would never have never started another war, especially when you involve Humans in the war, for their threat assessments of the Humans is in error as they soon found out.
When they begin the war, the Vorlons with their Minbari allies sent a fleet of a thousand ships and two planet killers to destroy the Ancients homeworld first and any planet in their solar system that can sustain life.
When they got there, they found themselves facing a vast armada of ships by the millions, heavily armed battle stations, satellite defenses and fighters that turn into a humanoid form for combat.
A quarter of the Homeland Defense Fleet bare down on them a firestorm of Reflex beams, phased beam weapons, turbolasers, ion cannons, missiles, millions of rounds of armor piercing bullets from railguns and gunpods the likes they have never seen, while the rest of the UN fleet just watch and on the alert of a possible second attack.
The battle lasted only 30 minutes, both Vorlons and Minbari forces were annihilated, and any survivors were taken and remnants of their ships were seized and analyzed for Intel.
Hours later, the UN Spacys found out that, the attack on the Earth System was the first of many of a massive Strike by both Vorlons and Minbari. The Galaxy Alliance and Jurai Royal Fleet, began to mobilize and soon other unions, federations, kingdoms and empires join in to defend their Quadrants in the Galaxy. Many sentient races who survive the Shadow Wars have not forgotten of what the Vorlons and Shadows have done to them, and will not allow them to have their way with them again.
For seven days, the allied forces counter attack and stop the enemy advance. The UN Spacys, Galaxy Army and Jurai observe and gathered Intel on their enemy and all of them agree, that the first attack was to gain a foothold on the Alpha Quadrant first as their attack shows that they also begun setting up tachyon beacons to navigate the Jumpspace dimension as well as setting up Jump gates along the way.
When the UN Spacys and the Galaxy Police and Army went on a second counterattack, they first targeted and destroyed every Tachyon Beacons and Jumpgates in the Alpha Quadrant plus, a thousand lightyears into the Beta Quadrant for good measures.
Though Vorlons don't need the beacons to navigate Jumpspace, the Minbari needed those beacons for their navigation. The Minbari had to rely on the Vorlons to travel unknown space, and when they lost their Vorlons allies, they become trap in enemy territory.
Many Minbari ships, who found themselves without a Vorlon to guide them, became easy target in normal space and lost in Jumpspace. The Vorlons never gave the Minbari Hyperdrive technology much like the ones used in the Alpha Quadrant, these are one of the ways they control them, limiting their space travel across the galaxy is a way of making sure that they will never stray to the path already layed for them.
By the time the Sixteenth Fleet was sent to the Delta Quadrant, the Vorlon/Minbari forces that attack the Alpha quadrant were on the run and many Minbari ships became stranded inside the Alpha Quadrant while their Vorlon allies turn tails and ran for their lives.
Barely a month in the war and Kosh knows that it was going bad for them, and so here, they are, trying to persuade other species in their quadrant to join them. Some are quite reluctant to join; others down right refuse them for many wishes not to be involved in anyone's war.
Kosh never like this kind of persuasion tactic, bringing a fleet into their system, ask them to join and if they refuse, destroy them.
It bothered Kosh as to why they should do this, restarting the Shadow Wars, and many of their kind feels the same as well, yet this was the order of their superiors despite the objections of some.
Kosh is old, very old, During the Last Shadow Wars he was around one thousand years old when the ancients push them back to their sector of space. Kosh at that time felt the sorrows and anger of those they used as a chess piece in their game with the shadows, he shuddered at that feeling, and when they started the new war, that feeling returned along with the death cries of their kind.
The last cries for help sent shivers into everyone's skin in the fleet and it started to unnerve them as they pause to sense their other brethrens thoughts but hears none. 30 minutes later, coming out of a Hyperspace Fold came out a fleet of thousands of ships led by a huge spearheaded vessel of enormous size.
"What is that?" Kosh spoke, as they look at this huge ship, which is no doubt, the flagship of this fleet.
Kosh doesn't understand why but, he felt danger the likes he has never felt before as this unknown fleet approach them.
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The UN-ECSSD 'Skywalker' is the first of the Ship of the Line that came from a famous movie genre in the late 20th Century.
After the end of the Second Space War, the UN Spacys decided to build new starships that are bigger and carries more firepower than any Zentraedi capitol ships, there were many ships being built for the fleet. Then the UN Spacys decided to build a Flagship for each of the 20 fleet they built and built it they did, and this single ship carries the firepower of one million ships itself.
However, the UN Spacys did not Design a new starship, instead, they choose to use one design from the movie genre 'Star Wars' and ask the creators of that movie, LUCASFILMS to help them build it, and they did.
Diehard fans of the movie, mostly engineers, ship designers and artist who grew up with the Genre, have put their skills to the service to build the most powerful warship mankind has ever imagine.
Together with Tirolian shipbuilding engineering, advance technology and Robotech construction methods, the first five was finished in record time despite a short argument on how long they are.
They built 'THE SUPER STAR DESTROYERS' and built the first of five in two classes of SSD
Three Executor-class SSD and two Eclipse-class SSD or ECLSSD, both are over 25 Kilometers long and over 15 Kilometer wingspan. The SSD they built is 6 kilometer longer than the one in the movie, for it was in order to accommodate its own spacedock, hangar bays and an array of weaponry and the engines that will power this huge ship.
The Armaments of the SSD is what would be viewed as overkillwith a capital
1 Grand Cannon Type 2 (Main Gun)50 Heavy Converging Beam Cannon Model 12,
800 Mk. 33 Phase Beam Medium Converging Beam Cannon700 Mk. 42 Phase Beam Medium Converging Beam Cannon1000 Mk. 8 Triple-Barrel Phase Beam Medium Converging Beam Cannon
1500 two barrel turbolaser batteries
1500 three barrel heavy turbolaser batteries
1500 three barrel ion cannons
1000 Interceptors
550 concussion missile/torpedo launch tubes
550 Mk.12 Ballistic missile launcher
550 Mk.7 Ballistic missile launcher
550 Mk.146 Defensive Missile Launchers
500 Oerlikon Model 486 Paladin Anti-Air/Mecha Defensive single-barrel light converging beam turrets
500 Oerlikon Model 673 Warkeeper Anti-Air/Mecha Defensive single-barrel light converging beam turrets
100 Tractor Beams
Mecha/Fighters/Auxiliary Complements
10,000 VF-2SS Valkyrie II w/SAP.
5,000 VF-1MS Metal Sirens
5,000 VF-14 Hunter Variable Fighter/Bomber
5,000 VF-11 Thunderbolt
5,000 VF-19 Excalibur
5,000 VF-22 Sturmvogel II
1,000 VF-17 Nightmare's
1,000 X-Wings fighters
1,000 'Gunstars'
300 YT-3000 'Millennium Falcon'
20,000 X-9 Ghost Fighters (Combat Drones)
5,000 Tomahawk
4,000 Defender-Ex
2,000 Phalanx
2,000 Giant Monsters
500 VB-6 KÖNIG Monster Variable Attack Bomber/Shuttle
500 varying types of ships from Horizont, Garfish class ships, Tokugawa-class carriers, Stargazer-Class Stealth Frigates, Cargo Freighters, shuttles and others.
The ECSSD has a Class 5 Omni Directional Barrier and Pinpoint Barrier system on top of the double hull plated ship each with, 10 feet thick Tritium/Tritanium reinforced ablative armored plating.
The SSD power sources are from 200 Class V Neo Reflex Furnaces, 25 Zero Point Reactors and 5 Super Sublight engines for propulsion. The engines power all of the ships systems, but for the Grand Cannon power needs, it also uses a Charge Particle Collectors to charge up and stores into energy tanks inside the SSD.
The SSD is so massive and so heavily armed to the teeth she was a fleet by herself as it makes one UN fleet into two with the Main Reflex Cannon known as 'The Grand Cannon' Type II that makes it close to that of the Super Laser of the Death Star.
The UN Spacys however, limited the firepower of the cannon to the strength of one million ships combined. Turning it to the one in the Star Wars novel where the Eclipse Class SSD possess a super laser was a big no, for it was too much power to wield for one commander of a starship.
When the first of five SSD were finished, they name them Skywalker, Yoda, Kenobi, Qui-Gon and Windu, all five are the names of famous Jedi Masters as the creators from Lucas Films requested it and command did not refuse them for they like the Idea as well.
For the LUCASFILMS, Seeing their imaginations become a reality was a dream come true for them, and their Super Star Destroyer designs serves as the flagship of the 20 mainfleet of the UN Spacys
The Creators of the famed Movie Icon, who have survived the 'Rain of Death' along with the rest of California, building their dream meant a lot to them. For a long period of time, their Movie making Industry stop due to the trauma of that terrible War. No one feels like making any new movies as they survey the world and humanity that was devastated beyond imagination.
Then a decade later, Macross famous singer Lynn Minmei and a group of Entertainers start to rebuild Hollywood and urge the people of California to once again, become entertainment capitol the world.
Then after the Second Space War, LUCASFILMS was approached by the UN Spacys and offered a contract them to help engineer the Super Star Destroyer, they gladly jump in as to have the chance to build their starship along with several ships from their movie as an added bonus.
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Commanding a movie Icon that became reality was both exhilarating and amazing.
The Skywalker commander Admiral Claudia Grant, look outside on the imitation command bridge of the SSD. Claudia felt like Darth Vader everytime she stood at the place where he stood. At that spot is a huge plaque with the names of the engineers and all the people LUCASFILMS, and at the bottom of the plaque it says
'MAY THE FORCE BE WITH YOU, ALWAYS'
Claudia always smiles everytime she sees it, for it shows that they put all their heart and soul in this ship for The SSD is built to defend the earth against those who continues to think that humanity is an easy target, seeing the SSD is to make them think twice, but not everyone is intimated or impressed.
Until it went into action.
"Admiral Grant" Captain Nova Satori step forward to give a report
"We detected a Vorlon Planet killer, one thousand Lightning class fighter, six hundred Light Cruisers and five hundred Dreadnaughts orbiting the planet Abbai Prime"
Nova handed over the PADD to Claudia and she read the rest of it, and what she is reading is the same as the last system they were on
"Every livable planet in this system is dead," as the report shows that every planet once alive in the solar system is dead, except for one planet.
Grant Looks towards another Vorlon Planet Killer, it was the same as the one that was brought on the Sol System and the one they destroyed just a while back.
Claudia is starting to get irritated with these people. Ever since they started the journey to other side of the galaxy they found five starsystems devoid of life and all indications that they were all eradicated only recently, and she's at looking at why.
"Charge up the Main Gun to fifty percent, set all ships to red alert," she ordered and ads
"Contact the Vorlon Fleet, standard greetings and tell them to leave the system or face annihilation" she seated herself at the command chair and activated several tactical screens in front of her.
She added in her orders "Put the Primary and Secondary weapons systems on standby, launch our fighters and alert all ships to stand by. They will only fire, if the Vorlon's open fire"
"Yes Admiral"
At that moment, slicer beam was fired from several attacking Vorlon Cruisers hit the Skywalker's shields and deflecting it.
"Well that was really rude of them" Claudia remark
"Send the message anyway Nova, and then order all ships to commence firing"
In every corner of the Skywalker, gun turrets launch tubes and missile launchers opens up for battle. Tens of thousand of weapons emplacements, gun ports along with thousands of Emplacement Alcoves for Destroids opens up to reveal the giants of Robotech, as fighters rocketed out from launch bays and on an attack formation.
At first, the Vorlons thought that these people were 'impudent', daring to fight against one of the galaxy's oldest races and a telepathic one at that. For them, telepathy is a weapon; they reach out into ones mind and render their adversaries stunned and weak if they ever get close.
Vorlons have always prided themselves as invincible, and no race other than the Shadows or a First Ones can match their power and certainly not a young race who can only dream the impossible.
(If that was true, then why look for more allies to their war in the first place?)
The Vorlons fighters went first and fought the UN Spacys Fighters, the Cruisers and Dreadnaughts created a wall in front of the Planet Killer, and using their telepathic powers they tried to reach into the mind of the pilots but discovered that they can't reach into their minds because a psychic shield.
The Vorlons telepathic powers slammed thru a wall like a car slamming thru a concrete wall everytime they tried to reach into the pilot's minds they felt a sort of wall, and their telepathy echoed back to them like an energy blast deflected back.
The Reason why the Vorlon's Telepathic assault on them was impossible, it is because of the Man and Machine Interface program of their fighter planes. The thought patterns of the pilots are the only thoughts that are allowed to control the plane, and an added bonus, is that, it shielded both fighters and its pilots from other thoughts that could hinder the planes operation.
The Vorlon don't know how they were doing it as their fighters were loosing and making the cruisers join in the battle while the Skywalker went toe to toe with the Planet Killer at one million kilometers away.
The Skywalker showed its broadside bearing down 20 Heavy Converging Beam Cannon that battered the Planet killer at one section with pinpoint accuracy, the same as hundred's of Medium Converging Beam Cannon with thousands of missile and torpedoes armed with weapons grade type tricobalt warheads and a new edition to their ordinance, Photonic warheads.
Vorlon fighters try to attack the Skywalker but only if they are able pass thru a wall of anti-aircraft weapons fire and its shields and armor.
The Planet Killer defenses kept firing their death rays at the approaching spearhead ships while it keeps intercepting volleys of incoming missiles. The PK shields have held its own against the SSD primary and secondary weapons. Still some of the weapons fires have gotten thru from the constant bombardment of one point of their shields causing massive damage to the PK organic hull.
To keep that part of the shields strong, the PK diverted most of its shielding powers at the front of the ship where the attack is most intense.
UN Spacys detected it.
Claudia smiled at the predictable reaction of the Planet Killer, she turn and spoke softly to Nova, to give her an order
"Signal the second group to commence attack my dear," she said so coolly
"Yes Admiral" Nova replied and open a COM link to the second group and spoke a code word
"Hammer, this is Anvil, Strike the Iron, I repeat, Strike the Iron"
"Roger Anvil, the Hammer is striking the Iron," replied by the second group
While the Planet Killer was focus on facing the Skywalker and its fleet, it did not notice the Short Range Warp of one thousand battleships, right at the back of the Planet Killer. The Vorlons did not even detect the incoming Fleet until it was too late.
The second group quickly fires their guns and launches all missiles at the Planet Killer from behind causing severe damage as the shields were weaker at the back than on the front.
The weak shields at the back was due to continuous attack at the front of the Planet Killer, its rear shields were weakened as most of its power is being diverted to the front. The UN Spacys knew this would happen after their first encounter with the first Planet Killer, and using that knowledge to their advantage, the Vorlons Planet Killer is most vulnerable at that moment.
Several Dreadnaughts came to the rescue as they emerge from a Hyperspace Jumpoint at the center of the second group but failed.
The Jumpoint Emergence could have taken out some of the ships, but the UN fleet already knew they were there and quickly took evasive action by dropping a few Hyperspace Disruptor Bombs, courtesy of the Galaxy Alliance.
What survived was not enough to fight against them as hundreds of VF's squadrons and Combat Drones intercepted them and begin a 'Missile Massacre Maneuver' against them from all sides.
Admiral Grant is satisfied to see two thousand warships was enough as the rest of the fleet is station just a few lightyears away. Committing the whole fleet was unnecessary as the result of this battle shows it.
The damage to the PK was enough to render the Super Death Ray useless but it can still fight. Claudia pushes the attack on the PK as she waits for the Main Gun charge up to complete itself.
Meanwhile, several Gloria and Heracles class ships and squadrons of VF-2SS broke formation to chase after several ships hiding in Jumpspace.
Hyperspace Dimension
Vorlon Light Cruiser
Kosh could not believe what he is watching as the fleet is being cut to shreds by the Earther humans that possess first ones weapons, a means to shield themselves from psychic attack and fighters that transforms into a mechanized warrior with enormous firepower, shields, speed and agility that their fighters are having a hard time in fighting against.
Kosh can see that the battle was lost "Order the Retreat" he told the others at command ship Dreadnaught beside his ship. The commanders inside was not exactly happy of what is happening and worst of all, Kosh the ordered him to retreat.
"No!" the angry response by one of the Vorlon Commanders
"We are the Vorlons! These pebbles must be punished for their insolence!"
"These pebbles are killing us, we underestimated them, we must withdraw now or," Kosh was unable to finish when his living ships threat alarm sounded up.
"We have been found" it was his lasts words as a Heavy Phase Beam Gun was fired at a Hyperspace opening.
Kosh ship move away from the Dreadnaught quickly, but not quick enough, as the Dreadnaught took a direct hit.
The blast came from the Main Gun of a Gloria class battleship, they fired a shot at a Jumpspace opening at a fifty thousand kilometer position, and hitting the Vorlon Dreadnaught from behind with their shields still down.
The Gloria followed it with several dozen warheads of weapons type, tricobalt torpedoes destroying the command ship as the beams and the warheads power is amplified by the energy of that dimension.
Several Jumpoints openings were made by other UN Spacys ships and doing the same thing along with phase array guns of several VF-2SS as they created crossfire where there are still Vorlons in hiding are caught in it, yet a small few was able to escape the slaughter but barely.
Meanwhile, Kosh ship opens up a Jumpoint into real space to escape but as soon as it got out of Jumpspace, it was now vulnerable as the sheer pain of heavy radiation burns and shrapnel from the exploding Vorlon ship cause the living ship unbearable pain, and its passenger felt it, and was knock unconscious by it.
Kosh ship was captured as the final act was about to begin.
UN-ECSSD 'Skywalker'
The SSD took several hits from several death rays that were able to breach their shields. Fortunately, the ablative armor deflected it, and none of them was able breach the hull.
Now it was time to reveal the Skywalker's Main weapon, it turns to face the Planet Killer head on. The SSD ten-kilometer forward portion of the vessel, split apart like that of the SDF-1, for this is the Grand Cannon of the Super Star Destroyer.
The final charging of the weapon is nearly complete, as the Charge Particle Collectors stops its operation and close all intake valves.
The crew at the bridge adjusted the gun to either spread or focus firing, the other stations reported in, for firing the Main Gun is dangerous for them and the ship if they make a mistake.
"Main Gun charge is now at fifty percent and Ready to fire!"
"All Ships are cleared from the firing line!"
"Inertial dampening fields and Omni Directional Barrier is now at one hundred percent!"
"All decks are secured!"
Claudia picked up the firing trigger at her right side armchair, and without hesitation, she imputed the final locks of the safety system, from peace to war and the lights on the turns from green to red.
Claudia looks up at the Planet Killer with utter disgust. She once thought that humanity was the only immature, selfish, arrogant and an irresponsible race, then it turns that someone else is alot worst and they are, and some of them are as old as the stars themselves, and they are suppose to be wiser than wise.
Claudia remembers how the Vorlons and Minbari came to the Sol System and brought two of Planet Killers in order to make sure that not one trace of the ancients homeworld exist, for the ancients once stops them from their murderous game, it was now the Second Evolution of Man turn to stop them.
The PK never got the chance to come close to fire those things on earth, and to make sure this one won't get that chance, she squeeze the trigger, and unleashes Hell for the second time.
The massive energy exploded into a powerful beam of Heavy Charge Particle Energy, the Reflex Energy of incredible destructive power lances towards the Vorlon Fleet, spreading itself to encompass everything and everyone around the beam were burned away instantly.
The Planet Killer shields was unable to hold off that immense power, it breach its shield, and the living ship felt unbearable pain as its entire body is reduced to sub atomic components.
On the Planet Abbai, people on the ground watch in awe, as this spearheaded ship destroyed the Planet Killer and all of the Vorlon ships around it.
The aliens, who came to their rescue, have defeated one of the oldest races in the galaxy, and they are called humans. The Abbai government knew they were humans, as they once traded with them once before at Wolf 359 with the Centauri a while back.
They knew about their military forces and seem formidable, but never in their wildest imagination have expected this.
The Abbai greeted the aliens they called humans and thank them to their rescue. The Human's response to them was simple greetings their intentions and reason why they stop the Vorlons. They shows no hint of interest of invading them and that relieve the Abbai for worrying about them.
Soon the Abbai sent Representatives to meet them. While they meet and greet with the UN Spacys representatives, a captured and damage Vorlon Light Cruiser is brought on board a hospital ship and placed in a shielded holding cell as medical doctors in shielded EVA suits starts treating the living ship of its radiation burns and injuries.
The UN Spacys know about Living Bioships and Vorlons from the Ancient Archives and the treatments of these living ships is easy for them to do.
A day or so the Sixteenth Fleet left to resume their Journey to the Delta Quadrant.
Soon after they left, the Abbai started to launch their starships in a mass exodus of their world for fear of the Vorlons might return to finish what they have started. They fled into known and unknown space, hoping to start over somewhere else, away from the Vorlons.
Abbai Prime sent away as many of their people from their world as possible those who left will preserve their species even if their world is annihilated.
Those to who left carried with them their heritage, traditions and history, as well as the knowledge of what the Vorlons have done to them. As they traded with other species, they pass on the word, that a race of people known as humans have fought and defeated the mighty Vorlons/Minbari forces along with footages of the battle at Abbai Prime.
Hospital Ship Vivien
Biosphere class vessel
At a high security facility, the captured Vorlon Cruisers were being treated by doctors who have knowledge in the workings of a Bioship while Destroids stood guard if it tries something.
Observation Rooms watch the bioship and its unconscious passenger's biosign as well as keeping the psychic shielding around the ship.
The Bioship felt scared, frightened, but as it watch them treat his wounds it started to feel relax as the pain from the radiation burn is slowly subsiding from the treatment its receiving. The Bioship is amazed that they have knowledge to heal a creature like him, so he watch and waited.
"So how is our patient Doctor?" Admiral Grant ask a female Blonde short haired doctor as she enter the room
Her name, Sixteenth Fleet Medical Group Commander Ritsuko Akagi, Doctor, PhD. Xenobiologist, Robotech Engineer, Mother and Admiral Ranma Saotome 3rd Wife.
"Stable and healing better than expected" she answered
"The Inhibitor collar is suppressing any type's psychic attack as well as its defense system," she said, "Its immune system is starting to heal its wounds rapidly thanks to our medical treatment. However, its passenger is still unconscious"
She looks back to Claudia as she read a report to her "From what we know about Vorlons and Bioships Bonding, the ship will heal its bondmate if the pilot is injured."
"That's good news then" She nodded
Claudia Steps forward to get a good look of the Vorlons ship, and couldn't help but be amazed at the science of creating a living ship. Claudia had some experience in encountering living ships before.
The Treeships of Jurai, Washu creation 'Ryo Ohki' the cat/rabbit like creature that turns into a ship, those sentient ships alone symbolizes how incredibly advances their knowledge is and how old their race is.
"Beautiful isn't it," Claudia said
"Yes it is," she answered agreeing
"It is hard to imagine that these are the people who are killing worlds by worlds just because they are not up to their standards" Claudia shook his head at the disbelief, that such an old and supposedly wise race could be so unwise and insensitive.
"Why do you suppose that they are so insensitive Ritsuko? Why are they so cold in killing world by world that are not a threat to them or could not even defend themselves against them?"
"Maybe because they think they can" she replied she breath deeply and exhale slowly and said to Claudia
"In our history we have our own who think they can do what they want with others because of their power, their strength, stature," she said
"We have our own versions of monsters, or people with a God complex, delusional madmen that's what I say" she told her
"Those people who think that they can do anything to other people and not considering the consequences of their actions. Vorlons, according to the Ancients, thought, that they can play God and can decide who lives and who dies in the galaxy,"
"And they are still at it" Claudia said "All because of some stupid argument of who is right and who is wrong"
"Speaking of right and wrong" Ritsuko ask
"Is it right to save this Bioship and the Vorlon inside it?"
"Yes it does" Claudia nodded
Looking back at the Bioship again, she's hoping that they could talk some sense with the Vorlons to stop their attacks before it escalates even further, and her reason in saving this ship was obvious
"This Bioship is a Diplomatic ship, most likely a negotiator according to the markings it keeps showing us," she pointed out to her
"According to the language, the ship is thanking us for treating him/her/ it, wounds and keep asking us 'what do you want'" Ritsuko find it curious that a Vorlon Bioship would ask that.
One of the major arguments by the Vorlons and Shadows were two questions,
Vorlons ask 'Who are you'
Shadows ask 'What do you want'
Two questions that have no right answers but only to boggle the minds of those whom it was ask.
"I thought only the Shadow will ask that"
"My thoughts as well" she said
"I wonder how a Vorlon would respond to that question if it was asked to them."
The Sixteenth Fleet continued their Journey to Delta Earth unhindered. Unknown to them they were being followed by a lone Shadow scout in semi phase between jumpspace and normal space; it was a move that made the scout undetected or viewed as a sensor ghost. How it was able to do such a feat is not important, as it follows the human fleet to its destination.
To Be Continue