By Chaoseternus
Heres a joke for you, two ships, the Enterprise NCC 1701-E and the Dauntless class Indefatigable both investigate an unusual gate, which one ends up in the wrong universe?
11Discontinuity: The First Battle Of RagnarokIf an observer were to look down upon the Ragnarok system he would see one of the deadliest and bloodiest space battles in living memory taking place, made bloodier by the fact that the two forces were relatively evenly matched.
Whether Anubis knew it or not, Maktenos outnumbered him but Anubis still had the technical edge, though not by as much as he had over the system lords.
The two sides were relatively evenly matched and that means a war of attrition.
Unless one side chooses not to let it be.
Anubis charged his fleet towards Maktenos's lines, not caring about the extra eighty cloaked ships he could detect, he had the technical edge and he had numbers over even the cloaked ship, why should he worry? His victory was assured.
So his fleet charged, rapidly closing into weapons range with the ships of Maktenos.
Which parted, like a hot knife through butter, the cloaked ships of the second fleet dropping cloak and opening fire as they dropped below the line of advance of Anubis's forces, the First Fleet, which contained the majority of the Anubis warships captured and utilised by Maktenos moving swiftly out of the way, moving to one side of the line of advance.
Seeing the danger, Anubis ordered his forces to retreat and regroup. Those at the rear of the fleet made it; the rest flew into a deadly crossfire, the first fleet firing with venomous intensity straight across the attacking fleet whilst the second fleet fired up from beneath.
Ships died, their crews spilling out into space as the salvos of brilliant light destroyed ship after ship after ship. Frantically manoeuvring, the warships of Anubis broke off, regrouping around the massive outsized command ship of Anubis, but 38 of their number, 36 Ha'taks and two Cheops didn't make it, vaporised by the skilled ambush laid in place by Maktenos.
And silently, stealthily and undetected, the third fleet manoeuvred into position.
Discontinuity: StarGate Command"Chevron Six Encoded…. Chevron Seven… locked.
We have a stable wormhole"
General Carter nodded, "Send in the MALP"
"Aye sir… MALP entering now, ETA 5… 4… 3… 2… 1… MALP has ariv…
Holy shit!"
General Carter and the technician leapt back from the console in shock as the unmistakable debris of a Goa'uld designed warship rained around the MALP, burning and scorched with the heat of an uncontrolled re-entry.
Exchanging embarrassed glances, the debris couldn't kill them through the monitor after all, they moved forwards back to the monitor.
"Sir, I am reading massive amounts of chatter on Goa'uld ship to ship frequencies… plus a lot of white noise, somebody is trying unsuccessfully to jam…" the technician glanced a little awed at Carter/Selmac, "We may have a ship to ship engagement in progress"
General Carters eyes flashed, and Selmac spoke, "I concur, have a 'Snoopy' prepared and sent through"
"Aye sir" the technician replied as he gave the orders for the remote SigInt (Signal Intelligence) variant of the MALP to be prepared.
Discontinuity: The First Battle Of RagnarokAnubis fumed as the reports flowed in, 38 of his ships destroyed and twelve heavily damaged for no loss on Maktenos's part, no loss!
This was unacceptable.
"Signal the fleet to attack again, only this time they will support my command ship" Anubis paused "And signal them I expect better results or their will be… consequences"
Maktenos swore in five separate languages as another of his ships died, destroyed in one salvo by Anubis's command ship.
He couldn't even attack that bastard creation, the Ha'taks of Anubis kept it too well protected whilst their motherships kept trying to flank his fleet, how the hell would he destroy that before he himself was destroyed?
Unbidden a suggestion rose in Pierces mind, one he frantically tried to cover before maktenos caught it.
Too late.
Maktenos grinned, the look making puzzled glances appear around his throne room. That would do, that would do nicely.
All order was gone, now all an observer would see is chaos, uncontrolled and unrelenting chaos and destruction.
But maybe, maybe if they looked closely enough they would see a pattern.
Waves of ships battering against the array of warships defending the prize, the most massive ship in sight, its own weapons arrays firing with frightening power and accuracy, each direct hit killing the ship it was fired at.
Ships trying to outflank their opponents whilst struggling not to be outflanked themselves.
And through it all, death, destruction and fire.
And then the pattern changed, abruptly, decisively.
"My Lord, we have detected a cloaked warship, this one approaches fast, they mean to ram!"
Anubis chuckled dryly, "If they are far enough away that only now do we detect them, they will not get close enough to ram us, destroy them like the rest"
"My Lord, this cloak appears to have been adapted to counteract our sensors, they are close"
Anubis shot forward in his throne, "Divert all weapons, kill them"
"My Lord"
First the command ship diverted fire, its weapons spitting into space but not giving any sign of hitting anything.
Then the closest ships diverted fire.
Emboldened, the First and Second Fleets of Maktenos pressed their attack despite large gaps in their lines.
Anubis's forces were caught between a rock and a hard place as they tried to defend their God against an enemy their weapons refused to lock on whilst defending against the massed attack of Maktenos's forces.
Like all forces trying to do two tasks simultaneously, they excelled at neither.
And with a red flash of displaced light, an Al-kesh appeared, its power depleted, momentum carrying the last thirty meters to Anubis's Command ship in seconds.
Assuming the command ship's shields could easily withstand an Al-kesh the defending forces were already turning around and were once again moving to engage the forces of Maktenos when the Al-kesh hit.
Even from a distance, it was possible to see the mothership rock as the 'fireship', an Al-kesh loaded with blocks of Naquadah hit the Command ship, its shields overloading in an instant, the shields generators spinning burning hulks into space as power surges blew every section of the hull containing the generators into space.
With a scream of primeval rage, Anubis set the self destruct and gave the order to cover his retreat at all costs as he moved swiftly though the dying command ship to the docking bays.