Recollections of the 4th Robotech War

by kivrinjs

Contains original characters set 150 years in the future of the Robotech timeline. Earth has expelled all non-pure humans and anti-alien sentiment and rhetoric from a charismatic man started a war of genocide against all non-humans, including whose ancestors called the Earth their home. Told from the perspective of historians, history documentaries and log files.

1. Log File Sarah Hunter

Acting Captains Log: RAFN Storm

Date: Unknown

Sarah Hunter, LT 2nd Class.

At the time of this log I am unsure of the date, our sensors indicate a temporal disruption. I believe the date to be April 10, or April 11, 2149. I will try to maintain a neutral posture throughout this report, this may have been a misunderstanding.

I was in the brig at the time of the initial attack, the Corporal guarding me is in good condition, I was forced to make an escape to assist the ship. I am the highest ranking officer at this time. A report of the events preceding the destruction of Icini 2 follow. I will attach a list of casualties at the end of this log.

At approximately 13:30 April 10, 2149 We were ambushed today by an Earth Alliance battle group. Captain Ellen Monk was killed in the initial attack. They came out of nowhere. As far as I can tell from what records we could recover the Storm had started taking scans of Icini 2, standard stuff, biologicals, natural resources, atmosphere. The Earth battle group appeared twelve thousand klicks off our port side. It consisted of two flag rank ships, and their escort. They opened up with a barrage of particle beam fire with no warning shots or communications.

The initial attack destroyed our comms array, fighter bay 2, and the bridge. The Captain and command crew were killed when the bridge sustained a direct hit. With no shields it's a miracle we survived the first barrage. Lt 1st Class, Michael Jones from the secondary command bridge ordered our shields up, and a retaliatory strike with bombers, ships weapons and fighter cover. The weapons were all fully functional. Records indicate our pulse cannons destroyed two of the escort cruisers and our Graviton Cannon holed the Lead flagship through.

Their first round of return fire was ineffective against our shields. The fighters engaged their tactical wings, and a pitched battle began. At approximately 1400 hours April 10, 2149, our shields gave way. By this point I had escaped the Brig to assist the fighter wings. I was in route to Fighter Bay 1, when I was confronted by two cyclone security. They redirected me to the battle bridge. Due to combat damage it had sustained we had several causalities there, Lt 1st Class Jones was no longer able to perform command duties and all other officers were in fighters. I assumed command at 14:21 April 10, 2149.

At this point our shields were ineffective at stopping the main weapons of the Earth Force ships, and we were only using the Graviton field for defense. The only viable weapon systems we had available were the Graviton Cannon, and two banks of pulse cannons. At 14:23 I ordered we target the anti-matter core on the Relentless, it was the lead flag ship. We were able to target the core because we'd opened a path with pulse cannon fire. We had our backs against the wall and my understanding of our new Graviton Technology was that the beams it projected would interact badly with anti-matter, I was hoping the ensuing damage would destroy the Relentless, and damage the remaining escorts. It's sister flag ranked ship the Cataclysm was already crippled from battle damage. If we could damage them enough, our engines could get us around the shade side of the Icini 2 putting us out of their weapons radius. The targeted beam did hit their reactor, the explosion took out the Relentless, three of her escorts. I thought we were assured victory, but then the main body of the Earth Battle Group jumped in.

It consisted of a battleship, ten escorts, two super carriers. The battleship appeared fired first. She pierced us amidships with a particle beam. This caused a cascade failure in our Graviton Core containment field. Secondary to that we started to lose magnetic containment on our anti-matter reactor. Seeing no other option but to attempt a dimensional shift in the gravity well of Icini 2, I ordered a general recall of our fighters. Knowing the planet was uninhabited from our previous scans, I ordered the Graviton core to drop as well as the anti mater to be vented into space.

The chief engineer, Chief Petty Officer Alice Grace informed me that the damage to the planet would be catastrophic. So I performed these steps with that in mind, and take full responsibility for my actions.

I commenced a fold countdown, and took in what fighters I could. I had all power we had left put towards charging the dimensional reactor, and reinforcing our shields. I gave the fighters thirty seconds to return to our ship. The Earth Force ships paused in their fire. I am unsure why, they may have been requesting our surrender. I could not take the chance, getting the information of the attack to headquarters was my primary concern. I set the fold destination to be a safe distance from Tirol and Alpha station.

We dropped the graviton core first, the singularity it held in suspended containment broke free and formed an event horizon. I was not expecting this, when we vented the anti-matter it was sucked into the newly formed micro black hole. The dimensional shift countdown was past the point of no return. I did not think we would survive the dimensional shift in such a high gravity field. The Earth Battle Group seemed to suffer the effects of the black hole and were dragged towards us steadily. We folded at 14:25.

When we arrived from our fold we were in the same location we started. Our position was identical to what it had been. We are currently in a debris field our scanners cannot penetrate. We have noticed several anomalies, ruptures in time/space. We see no signs of the Earth Force battle group, and can only assume they were either destroyed inadvertently by our cores, or they have retreated from the area. We seem to be situated in the "eye" of the time-space storm we caused. And are safe from the anomalies. We are currently undergoing recovery operations, and trying to repair/rebuild our comms and to move from emergency power. I am told a second Graviton Core is stored on board the ship. At this point I am loath to put it into use I suggest we cease future use of this technology, the damage to the time space continuum seems to be catastrophic upon failure of containment.

I have attached a casualty list at the end of this log.