Phase 3
Location: Side 3 Space. Zeon-Covenant Battle Time +0015
Major Ridden thought he had seen it allall that hell had to offer at least. The all out nuclear exchange at Side 5, the dissemination of Australia during the operation British Colony drop, and the suicidal attack on Federation HQ in South America. But now Aliens, real dam Aliens. It was like something out of a bad SI-FI movie way before the UC era began.
He swerved to avoid another barrage of plasma. The technicians were right, the new R-2 was definitely a step up from previous models he had piloted, anything else and he would have been vaporized a while ago.
Proof of that was that all the old suit models deployed had been destroyedmostly MS-5 and MS-6F's.
At least the newer models were still functioning and doing considerable damage against the invaders.
He let loose another barrage from his modified machine gun. Ninety mm. Shells flew across the void taking down several Alien fighters. New type Musai and Zanzibar class cruisers were providing fire support. Charge particle beams literally obliterating the enemy flying in close formation. Major Ridden smiled. These so-called extraterrestrials were as dumb as the Federation relying on mass numbers of poorly made machines and near suicidal pilots.
Suddenly a burst from the Com: "All units this is home defense HQ. Enemy fighters are pulling back. Main battleships are approaching. Prepare for anti-shipping combat."
Johnny Ridden looked at the ships approaching. "You've got to be kidding me! The smaller ships are about as big as a colony. What the hell is high command thinking?"
Suddenly another voice from the Com: "Permission has been granted by Commander Zabi to utilize nuclear defense. Launching rockets at 15 second intervals. Commencing."
Dozens of rockets streaked out from the center of the Colony cluster. Impact was made with the Covenant's Star destroyers.
Location: Covenant Super Class Star DestroyerMoonlight Sympathy. Battle +0040
Commander Plo looked out the view port and then back at the real time data that was being sent to him on the battle in progress. He could see now why the Prophet of the Divine Crusade wanted this primitive technology. This so-called mobile suits were causing decent kills against the fighter groups. In addition the unique jamming technology they were employing had totally disabled their long range sensors. He was having his fire control teams calculate firing trajectories by hand.
"Sir, fifth wave of Infidel nukes approaching. Activating interception system."
Plo yelled, "Retaliate, launch 11th wave of nuclear rockets. Target enemy ships, mobile suits and colonies. Tell all fighters to pull back to defend the fleet."
"Sir, multiple impacts detected. Main shields and radiation shields are holding. Victory class ships C-955 and C-957 are reporting shield malfunctions."
Plo shouted, "Order them to return to the rear of the battle group. Cover themphoton gatling gun barrage at vectors 40-60-and 80."
"Sir, third wave of enemy cruisers has just appeared from behind the moon."
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"Are they
moving to intercept?" asked Plo.
"No sir, they just seem to be hanging there."
"Then they are currently of no concern. How much of the enemy have we currently destroyed?" asked Plo.
"We have destroyed seven colonies and too many infidels to log. We're nearing the center of the cluster."
Plo ordered, "Prepare phantom drop ships. I want the colony in the center of this cluster secured. As I said we need at least two intact to proceed with the second stage of this operation. Send out all available special ops teams. Those colonies have to have an environmental control center and we need to shut off the oxygen. That should limit our causalities. If they can't shut off the oxygen order the men to blow a giant hole in the colony. We will seal it with a environmental force field later."
Location: Zeon Solar Ray Weaponformerly Batch 7St. Petersburg Colony. Battle Time +0100.
Supreme Commander Giren Zabi was watching the battle from inside the Solar Ray control room. He couldn't believe what he was seeing. The Zeon home defense force was using some of the best weapons available and were getting slowly but surely slaughtered by a bunch of inferior creatures. Some of their best nukes were incapable of striking critical blows against these Aliens. Now he was forced to consider the final option. He originally meant to use the Solar Ray to obliterate the Federation Fleet approaching their lunar defensive line, but now he would need to use it on these inferior but cunning creatures.
Giren Zabi yelled to the firing control officer, "Status of the Solar Ray!"
The officer replied, "Output is maxed out. We are at critical1 billion mega watts and holding steady."
Another officer said, "Sir, the Solar Ray was only meant to fire at half this powerand then only once. If we try to fire at this level, the Solar Ray will disintegrate with our destruction as well."
"Coward!" Giren yelled. "If we fire we ensure the survival of the Superior Race of Zeon! Besides, if we destroy these Alien invaders, the Federation will surely surrender out of awe of our military might. Time to show those earth bound bastards the true power of Zeon. Get ready to fire on my command. We shall succeed and go down in glory."
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