Chapter 3-Contact, of the unexpected kind
Mothership
Gerol was impressed, but he obviously didn't show it, the Tau'ri had built a ship, while quite small, was able to cause quite significant damage to his ships shields, even scoring a small shot against the hull, not many could do that and yet it still was able to take more punishment, but now was time to end this menace once and for all "All Degerus Class ships regroup around the Mothership and prepare to engage the human vessel." Soon he would finally rid himself of any resistance and finally take Vulcan, it had taken to many lives and time as it is.
Endeavour
"Shit" swore Davis, as the small vessels regrouped with their bigger brother with the F-302's firing desperately from behind, he knew that they were preparing to overwhelm his ship, now it was all or nothing. His shields were basically gone those pulse blasts ripped open a hole while they were firing the missile salvos, and even with the 4th generation reactive armour, he doubt his armour could take the full blast of 3 of those vessels. Luckily this ship had an advantage over all other ships in the Tau'ri fleet.
"Ensign, prepare to fire the all Gauss cannons at max rate of fire, if we concentrate all fire on the shield generator, we might break through and take it out."
"Eye sir, all 4 cannons are ready to fire on your order."
"Good, all fighters, keep their guns off us, this might take a while"
"Roger that, Captain, moving in now."
"Ensign, fire at will."
Battle of Eridani
Both duel mounted turrets adjusted to fire on the generator, 4 explosive shells were fired, impacting 3 microns after launch, barely one and a half seconds later another 4 fired, then another 4, and another 4 more, the ship continued to fire while holding up against the enemy fire as best it could.
Meanwhile
The fighters were flying circles around all 3 ships, hoping to keep the targets on themselves and off the Endeavour. One particular pilot though of a dangerous, if not insane idea. He stopped right off the Motherships shield perimeter, charged up hyperdrives and dived in the jump hole. The 3 metre distance jump was without a doubt, the most difficult move to make for any pilot, and in a lancer literally suicide, he thanked god that the Endeavour didn't make the switch and stuck to the default F-302's.
Missile hits were showing on the scanners of every fighter, congrats were sent to the lone pilot for his daring move, but then again, he always was a crazy bastard.
Aschen Mothership
This was not good. Those words played over in Commander Gerol's mind almost continuously. Those detestable primitives, have overcome his shields, and unleashed that small craft to wreak havoc across his ship. His Mothership wasn't designed to defend against them, and his frigates wouldn't risk damaging the Mothership in an attempt to obliterate the enemy. And with that command ship firing railgun rounds almost constantly, he doubted the shields could hold for much longer.
"Can we attempt to evade?"
The ship rocked hard, "Negative, our ion engines were taken out by those fighters, hyperdrive isn't in much better shape." Said a random crew member
"Can the Degerus initiate a jump point for us to follow?" asked the weapons officer.
"It is possible Commander, I suggest we take that course of action if we want to survive!" The young women at the helm suggested loudly, to overcome the sounds that damaged the highly sensitive Aschen hearing, caused by the constant pounding by the human ship.
"Do it, in the mean time give our 'friends' here a gift, release the shield generator an….
Battle of Eridani
The shields were almost gone when the unexpected happened, the generator just burst off, just when the last of the explosive shells ran out. The fighters stopped engaging, if only just for a second, that's when the Aschen made their move.
Mothership
"Jump to hyperspace, NOW!" was all that Gerol said, as the crew of all three ships followed their orders.
Battle of Eridani
Space warped, and fractured, when the vortex opened once again. The Tau'ri crew immediately doubled their efforts in the destruction of the Mothership, but it was too late, the jump to hyper was made by all three ships, closing the vortex behind them.
Endeavour
The crew drew a collective sign of relief, they had driven off the Aschen from Eridani, but they would return, most likely in greater numbers and greater strength, but they still didn't know who these aliens were, the ships were an unusually design, but then again most ships they see are unusual, they were all mainly cone shaped, with a circular pylon at the widest point the communications officer was a known sci-fi fan, and he as having a hard time believing what he saw, but that was impossible they already saw them through the integrate, but here?
"Ensign open a channel to the alien vessels, its time for first contact and we need a place to repair the damage to the cannons."
The ensign shook himself out of thought and returned to the task at hand "Aye sir, channel open……their replying"
The view of the grouping of coned ships turns quickly into the stoic image of a nearly human being, if not for the curled eyebrows, pointed ears and the obvious aura of calmness, you would think he was human. He then raised his hand from his cloak, and separated his finger into 2 groups "Live long and prosper, greetings to you strangers, we can not thank you enough for saving our people from the Aschen, ones who once called us brot….." he stops as he notices that every member of the crew jaw had dropped, he continued by asking intrigued and confused by the reaction.," Is there a problem?"