Thundersdawn PT5: Chocky's Thunder
by Chaos_eternus
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Chapter 12: Station Rage
Aboard the Goa'uld station, the Jaffa prepared to sell their lives dearly, to die with honour giving their God more time to escape the clutches of the Tau'ri. Power was diverted from the massively oversized ZPE generator, allowing the ZPE field to shrink to its natural size, power once again flowing out of the device. The Jaffa now had massive amounts of energy to spare, energy they diverted to the weapons systems and shields. They were going to die anyway, why worry about overpowering the weapons systems?
The Jaffa in charge of the station, Ten'ac watched impassively as the Tau'ri vessels regrouped, formatting together seamlessly before diving towards his God's station, several transports, a Ha'tak and a smaller Tau'ri warship breaking off for the planet below. That would make it easier, but not by much. He would still die, but with two less warships attacking he should be able to delay and damage the Tau'ri more.
"Open fire, in the name of Maktenos we may die this day, but we will take the Tau'ri with us!"
Bright lances of light flashed across space, splattering against the shields of the attacking vessels. Quickly, the fleet reciprocated, the stations shields flaring as the faster than light Naquada Gauss projectiles impacted, followed by a wave a missiles which made the station rock and shake, the shields flickering under the force.
"Divert more power to the shields"
"My Lord, if we divert more power we greatly risk burn-out of the shield generators."
"Do It!" Ten'ac replied.
The shields flickered one last time, then held as more energy poured into the generators, which under the strain, slowly unnoticed began to heat up.
Ten'ac turned back to the battle, and gloated satisfied as one of the larger vessels, a Prometheus he believed broke of its attack run and dived for the relative safety of open space, 'one down, four to go'
Ten'ac's smile widened even further as a wave of torpedoes sped towards his station; only half the ships had fired! They were running out of missiles. This was an interesting development; maybe just maybe they would survive to serve their God another day.
The fleet dived into the stations fire for another attack run, braving the volleys of energy sent their way, their gauss rifles spitting round after round at the stations shields. Ten'ac smiled again, gleeful this time as a Dauntless broke off, its Gauss rifles having stopped halfway through the attack run. Both rifles would not jam at the same time; they had to be out of ammo, they could win this for their God!
Unnoticed and unseen, the shield generators began glowing white hot, slowly the metal casing began to slump and melt.
Ten'ac scowled as the Ha'tak and the smallest warship replaced the vulnerable, weaponless Tau'ri fleet. The Ha'tak would not run out of ammunition, it used energy weapons. The smaller warship, well that would soon break off too. It could not possibly carry much in the way of ammunition.
"Concentrate fire on the Ha'tak."
The crystals of the Goa'uld shield generator were charring now, turning black and sooty as their structures broke down under the strain. Something would have to give and soon.
Blastboat dived in towards the station, Lieutenant-Commander 'Xander' Harris shouting orders as the only reloads Blastboat carried for the torpedo tubes were manually placed into the launchers. He had just one volley; he would have to make it count.
"Bring us in close, and double check that targeting solution, we must not miss!"
"Aye, cap!"
"Captain." Stepanak poked his head out of the torpedo access way at the front of the bridge, "Tubes 1 through 4 loaded, after that we're down to signal flares."
"Tactical" Xander grinned, "send 'em our calling card."
"Aye, Cap! Firing torpedoes."
Blastboat shook gently as the four enhanced Sparrows sped out of the tubes,
diving towards the Goa'uld station, Blastboat herself breaking off her attack run, moving to support Valour's Hour.
Energy surged through the failing shield generators as the torpedoes hit. It was enough, several crystals instantly crumbled into dust. Straight away, the shield collapsed, all the energy surging back through the failed generator. It gave totally, releasing the energy into the station.
In a flash, an expanding ball of energy had encompassed half the station, quickly growing, and Ten'ac died, blessing his God with his final words.