A/N Well this is completely redone, and a action packed chapter, next chapter will be extended with more good stuff as I abandon the HP stuff to the garbage pit, and we shall see the rise of the Terran Star Alliance :).
Note about turbo lasers, it has been suggested through actual calculations on wookiepedia, an official SW site that turbolaser bolts (standard) do about 2000 megatons worth of power, no joke. Heavy turbolasers are designed to be at least 2x power I'm guessing.
Capitol cities like Draconia and Menzoberranzan and the Darkwielder have class 50 mana wells. The larger wells 10+ have a much larger composition of certain ingredients (Dragon blood, empowering runes, etc) that the smaller: 9 and under cannot match, as the size goes down, the raw output of mana and runes that can be inscribed in and on the well drop accordingly.
Typo correction from chapter 18: The Darkwielder has a class 50 not 15 mana well, sorry. Oh and final A/N before we get one with the chapter, please use PM's to review, or if you have it and the FF site login is dead, please use my email.
Sharnorasian Empire
Mana well absorption powers:
Class 20: 30000 megatons of energy (Size: large indoor waterpark)
Class 19: 28500 megatons of energy
Class 18: 27500 megatons of energy
Class 17: 26500 megatons of energy
Class 16: 25000 megatons of energy
Class 15: 24000 megatons of energy
Class 14: 23000 megatons of energy
Class 13: 20000 megatons of energy
Class 12: 17500 megatons of energy
Class 11: 15000 megatons of energy
Class 10: 10000 megatons of energy
Class 9: 7000 megatons of energy
Class 8: 6000 megatons of energy
Class 7: 4500 megatons of energy
Class 6: 3000 megatons of energy
Class 5: 1500 megatons of energy
Class 4: 1250 megatons of energy
Class 3: 1000 megatons of energy
Class 2: 500 megatons of energy (Size of a SUV) (Aurix's armor has one of these built in)
Class 1: 100 megatons of energy
Infantry sizes:
Class .9: 75 megatons of energy (Bloom has this one) (Size of a large dinner plate)
Class .8: 50 megatons of energy
Class .7: 25 megatons of energy
Class .6: 10 megatons of energy
Class .5: 5 megatons of energy (Standard issue in all Draconian field marshals, size of a football, American that is)
Class .4: 1 megaton of energy (Standard issue in all Draconian full generals, size of a volleyball)
Class .3: 500 kt of energy (Standard issue for LT. Generals (size of a baseball)
Class .2: 250 kt of energy (Standard issue for M. Generals (size of a tennisball)
Class .1 100 kt of energy (Standard issue for Colonels (size of a golfball) (Darlana wore this mana well in chapter 3 flashback when it was a prototype)
Class 0 : 1.5-10 kt of energy (Standard NCO-lower officer. Private to Major, varying sizes in marble range)
Sorry readers if this bores you, but you have to know just how much punishment these things can take, and magical shield are VERY powerful, hope this works for you all, enjoy the rewritten chapter 20.
Chapter 20: Unexpected Surprises
Space outside rippled in beautiful purple and blue spirals through the dimension jump as the D.E.S Darkwielder traveled through jump space.
"SHIELDS UP, REPORT." Darlana roared as they exited somewhat prematurely.
"Mana shields offline, shields up, we are out of travel and in orbit around a planet."
"Let me see it." Darlana looked at the scopes and cursed in Drowish as she realized they have not made it home yet. "Great going to be a long day I see." Darlana grumbled.
Later on the Darkwielder, Darlana was staring at several reports that did not add up to her knowledge of the Drow. The Drow did not have any real amount of starships, they did not even have a space station since the orbital dominance of Earth by Draconia remained uncontested. So where did these ships come from? Drow ships had one more MAC or mass driver cannon than Draconia's ships but had no DIRENS or energy weapons beyond kinetics. Ass such had more railguns, usually 2x or more than Draconia's ships, and more HMG point defense.
So where in the hells did the Drow who were losing the war at home get these ships that her TIE scouts were reporting. The Darkwielder could easily alone crush the full Drow Star group that was spotted, the problem was, strike too early and the Drow would scatter across the whole sector making hunting them down a royal pain in her ass. Strike too late and the Drow may spot them and scatter early or gather enough ships to really do some damage.
Darlana sighed and rubbed at her eyes. Her ship had arrived in a nearby solar system to scan the planet and see if this was the right dimension. Darlana stretched and groaned at the pops her wing and back joints made She sighed again and left the desk for her bed. About ten minutes later, she felt two hands begin massaging her stiff joints, Darlana let her body go limp under her husband's ministrations. "Long day?" Legolas asked, Darlana grunted in response.
"Very."
"I heard your joints pop; you are working too hard."
"Hardly." Darlana snorted. "I've been keeping standard hours thank you very much. Besides you think running a ship the size of your ego is easy?" Darlana snapped out playfully.
"My ego is not that big, I think you are confusing me with Lloth."
"Perhaps ohh, left a little, perfect." Legolas continued working the kinks out of his wife's back.
"Legolas I have some amazing news." Darlana grinned
"What?"
"I'm pregnant."
'Truly meleth?" (1)
"Yes Legolas, we are going to have a baby, I'm about three weeks along." Legolas pulled his wife into his arms, kissed her and spun her in the air while both of them laughing joyfully.
"We need a name." Legolas said "We also need to know if it's male…"
"It's a boy, the spell told me, and I was thinking Oropher, after your grandfather."
"Oropher, perhaps Thranduil for a middle name." Legolas at his wife slightly surprised look continued "I have learned the tradition of a middle name to honor a family member, and my father's name can serve nicely."
"True, I love you, you are everything to me, and you have given me the one thing I have wanted for five hundred years."
"Indeed dearest Darlana." The two of them start kissing more intensely before the sirens sound, announcing the call to battle stations.
"For fuck's sake." Darlana swore as she and Legolas raced up to the bridge. "Report." The moment she entered the bridge.
"Drow ships, matching the classifications you gave us a week ago, showing two hundred destroyers, eighty cruisers, forty battlecruisers and twenty battleships and 30,000 modified space fighters."
"Where in the 100 hellfire circles did they get these?" Darlana growled rhetorically "Shield status?"
"Online."
"Increase forward shield power by 50% power, all remaining power to all turbolasers, stand by concussion missiles, prepare for oncoming MAC fire."
"Those are powerful cannons." Said Piett.
"Indeed, and we got to deal with them, can we make an intersystem hyperspace jump?"
"We'll need twenty minutes minimum before we can calculate everything." Piett responded.
"Very well, have our fighters form up, all bombers are to load for anti-fighter duties, we are outnumbered 340 to one, our fighter craft are outnumbered 3 to 1, but they have both standard and mana shields, are more maneuverable and have missiles now."
"Very true milady, stand by to enter firing range." Piett ordered.
"All batteries lock on to the nearest destroyer before they can fire a MAC, our engagement range is twice theirs, gunners ready?"
"Aye ma'am, firing in 5 seconds, all fighter wings report ready." The tactical officer replied.
"Unleash hell." Darlana ordered as all 4000 turbolaser batteries unleashed their massive firepower, each of them boasting the energy of 2000 megatons of energy for the standard and 4000 megatons for the heavy turbolasers fired on the poor Drow destroyer in the crosshairs. The first linked group of eight heavy turbolasers fired, the Mana shields absorbed 54% of the energy unleashed, the remaining 46% impact the heat resistant adamantium reactive armor. The forward plates blew out, the energy of the shot cored into the explosive buttress in the armor. The forward plating efficiency of the Drow destroyer was now cut by a quarter.
The second group of standard turbolasers fired and impacted the energy feeds of the twin MACs on the destroyer, disabling them, the plasmatic energy of the beams burned through to the forward armory and caused the nukes on board to detonate engulfing the Drow ship before it was vaporized.
"Drow fleet one minute to their firing range." The tactical officer reported.
"Line us up for a shot on the forward battleship, all batteries as they bear." Piett ordered.
"Hold missiles for closer ranges, give less time for their point defense to intercept." Darlana ordered as four groups of heavy turbolasers, thirty-two turrets locked on and fired. The powerful shields on the Drow battleship could only absorb a quarter of that power. Soon massive rents in the ships 250 cm reactive appeared as plates were blown off by plasma coring of the armor. The ship rotated to point their undamaged starboard armor at the Darkwielder, as the ship shuddered in response to the attack on their dorsal plating. "All batteries fire at will." Darlana ordered, soon the space around the Drow fleet glowed green and blue under the force of turbolaser and ion cannon barrages from the Darkwielder.
Under the fury twenty-eight destroyers and a battlecruiser crumbled. Soon the enemy was within MAC range and fired at the prow shields of the Darkwielder. They fired 662 50 ton slugs from the destroyers and cruisers and 246 100 ton slugs, all at 10% of the speed of light. 500 slugs in total impacted the Darkwielder's prow shields due to range and bad targeting, alarms blared throughout the ship as the reinforced shields dropped by 45%.
The retaliatory fire from the Darkwielder claimed another twenty destroyers, twelve cruisers, the battlecruisers took the worst of the firing and suffered, laving only four of them left, the first took minor damage, dropping it's armor efficiency to 84% overall, it's combat rating fell to 13%.
The second took massive hits to it's dorsal and port hull, dropping armor efficiency to 14% and its combat efficiency dropped to 26%. it rolled again pointing mostly undamaged starboard plating, but most of its rail guns on that side had lost their ammo feeds, leaving them with only 600 rounds to fire.
The third took several hits to it's forward hull and buckled the prow plating, one of its MACS had lost power, the other two lost half their power feeds. Its combat rating fell to 85% effective.
The fourth took the most damage, armor plating was 6% effective overall, and her combat efficiency fell to 4%.
The battleships were completely smashed by the Darkwielder's cannons. Each one lingering before succumbing eventually to destruction by megatons of turbolaser power. The Darkwielder quickly crushed the crippled battlecruisers before flying forwards to battle the remaining 171 destroyers and sixty-eight cruisers.
"Come about heading 434 mark 564, present our starboard shields." Darlana ordered "Reroute power to starboard shields till prow have regenerated." The massive starship came about, her shields flashing as they deflected 478 MAC light rounds. The shields dropped to 80%., the turbolasers recharged, the forward destroyers absorbed the batteries' fire on tier larger starboard plating, however destroyers, being escorts did not have very thick or strong plating. Their plating only absorbed the lighter turbolaser fire, but the heavier turbolasers shattered the buckled plates and ripped the forward 15 destroyers in half.
The other ships with their MACs recharging fired rail guns, unleashed a spread of missiles, and even used their HMG pd weapons to try and do damage. The point defense of the Darkwielder unleashed their fury, as the lighter pulse turrets picked off all the nuclear missiles first, especially the gigaton level missiles that were normally used for orbital bombardment. 85% of the kiloton level missiles impacted, causing at best a 6% drop in the rienforced starboard shields.
The Draconian flagship targeted each and every ship with its turrets, each ship on average taking the fire of seventeen turrets each on average, both ion and turbolaser. Each of them wearing down the shields and plating that struggled to resist the thousands of megatons of energy being poured into them. Hundreds of destroyers and dozens of cruisers cracked and buckled under the fury of the cannons. Another seventy destroyers were shattered into fragments. Another fourteen cruisers were destroyed utterly. Knowing that the enemy MACs would need another four minutes to charge, Darlana ordered a full all out assault at point blank range. Said assault crushed another eighteen destroyers and another sixteen cruisers. Another missile swarm crossed the divide from both sides. Another thirty-seven destroyers and a cruiser were blown up under the force of the concussion missile warheads. Enemy destroyer numbers were now sixty-three destroyers and thirty-one cruisers
"Focus all fire power on the remaining cruisers, crush them." Darlana ordered as a destroyer rammed into the port side shields, dropping them by 15%
"Back us off, reroute power from the hyperdrive to all shield sectors." Piett ordered, Legolas stood back feeling out of place and awkward in space combat. But in awe at the skill his wife and friend (Piett) possessed. Captain Marcus Reyal, Piett's other friend and first officer was overseeing the tactical station and relaying orders to the gunners. Reyal had spend most of his free time over the week studying everything Darlana had given from her Ipad on the Drow ships. Reyal made sure gunners targeted perceived weak points and precise tactical damage. Reyal's orders were the ones that caused massive damage and the eventual destruction of all the battlecruisers.
Again the turbolasers lashed out as the green harbingers of death. Fifty-eight destroyers were destroyed, the remaining damaged five tried to pull out at full burn, trailing air and lifeless bodies. The cruisers however suffered the worse, after the screen of missiles and explosions had cleared, none remained. The last destroyers were quickly mopped up at long range, leaving the Darkwielder mostly undamaged. Her prow shields were now back to 76%, and her port were at 67% from the six destroyers and a cruiser ramming them. Starboard shields were back to 98%, it was now down to the fighters to end the battle.
Captain Jett Rankin, commander of the Darkwielder's alpha fighter squadron, led the charge, his squadron escorting a flight of modified TIE bombers. His squadron followed by the other modified TIE interceptors, escorting their own bombers. 'Ok, so about 25000 missiles being sent at the enemy, say about 35-40% being able to evade or stop them , mana shields will absorb the warhead, so about 50% kills, of 25,000 not bad.'
"Ok men, fire missiles, FOX 2." Each TIE interceptor launched 2 missiles, the TIE bombers launched 4 each. The missiles, being faster than the Drow expected in their arrogance swarmed them, Mana shields were brought down in the swarm only to be impacted by another 2 or 3 missiles. In the end, 17,000 Drow converted atmospheric fighters were destroyed in the swarm. "Close to attack range, let them have it." The interceptors swarmed forwards , the TIE bombers banked away from the battle, cutting the assault force by 1/4. 7,500 TIE interceptors against 13,000 Drow.
Both side close, the TIEs having tech and maneuvering advantages, swamp the Drow in maneuvers they cannot hope to match. Rankin's fighter swung onto the tail of a Drow fighter, it's shields stripped away by a missile. His laser cannons lashed out, stitching the engine block and shredding it with green energy. His fighter was then turned to assist his wingman who was being fired on and chased by a Drow fighter that he could not evade, and it was slowly wearing down his shields.
Rankin shot another missile from his launcher, it impacted just short of the enemy cockpit, blowing both the ship and the pilot to hell. Rankin watched as the bombers unleashed another spread of frag anti-fighter missiles before heading back to the Darkwielder to reload. All around him TIEs were blowing up the Drow fighters, having both tech advantage and better protections, as the Drow ships could take four energy bursts on their shields, and at best two hits to their armor before being destroyed. The Drow on the other hand needed to fire all their rail guns continuously for ten minutes to wear down the shields on the TIEs.
TIEs that were loosing their shields, pulled away from the battle and made the switch to Mana shields, then they returned to the battle as the Darkwielder advanced and began blasting at the Drow fighters with the point defense. Between the Darkwielder and the TIEs the Drow were completely destroyed.
"Standing down from red alert admiral and princess, all fighters are landing now."
"Losses." Darlana asked the tactical officer who just spoke.
"None, our fighters were just too good for them. Speaking as a former pilot milady, I thank you for having put missiles and shields on our TIEs."
"Not a problem lieutenant?"
"Rankin, ma'am, my older brother is the CAG (commander air group) leader."
"Excellently done today lieutenant, you and your brother shall both be commended, along with everybody else. Navigation, power the hyperdrive and come to heading, 010 mark 110, stand by to jump to that system."
"Aye milady."
"We're going to our home for both new and old citizens, allow me to welcome you to Earth and Draconia." There were cheers and applause which Darlana and Piett allowed for a couple moments before sending everybody back to work. The massive ship moves out and in a flash of light makes the jump to hyperspace.
Two hours later the massive ship arrives in the Sol system. Two lush green worlds glimmer in the distance and approaching starships that resembled Dragons of varying sizes come flying forwards.
"Incoming Draconia ships they are hailing us."
"On screen." Aurix in his Dragon form can be seen on the bridge of his living room
"Hi father." Darlana grinned making Aurix sigh.
"Who did you piss off now? And how do I know it's really you."
'My authorization is 1012, code is, the wind calls for our wings." Darlana said telepathically "And I resent that implication." Darlana snorted "I brought you this present father, Enjoy your new flagship." Darlana grinned.
"You mean to say that new ship, 17 kilometers long, and at least a millenia more advanced than anything of ours is for me?"
"Well for the empire, but it's your flagship now." FUMP, Aurix overwhelmed by the news passed out, knocking Bloom who was nearby off her feet by the suddenness of a multi ton Dragon crashing on the ground. Darlana burst out laughing before taking a picture of that, the hologram of seeing her father pass out, the normally unflappable Dragon, (except his wings) was too funny for her to stay upright. She knelt down laughing her head off, before restraining her amusement.
"Take us in, take us home." The ship advanced before staying in orbit. "Soon the war will be won." Darlana said with an evil grin, her eyes turning black "soon."
A/N: Well there's a new chapter 21, Darlana is pregnant. TIEs now have shields and missiles (I mean really I'm seen tissue paper that was more of a threat than a flimsy TIE fighter). The Darkwielder is home at last, and the only Drow starforce is crushed. Up next in chapter 22: reactions of both the Drow and the TSA, the end of the Drow war and more.
Please let me know if you have questions, I know the fight was rather one sided, but it happens when your ship is anywhere from 1000-1500 years more advanced than your enemies, what can you do, and trust me, for what's coming in the future, Earth and the TSA will need all the help the Darkwielder can give
SE
Translations:
1) Elvish: Beloved