Chapter 11-Battle is Joined
If all was still on the western front, you should have seen it here. For millions of miles all was still, even the constantly moving bodies around the system seemed to be still, if only just for a few seconds. Because all the movement the scanners, and even those unlucky to be close enough to see, the multiple activation of jump points at the edge of the system.
Sensors had picked up multiple waves coming through hyperspace, this was the first, several frigates and a Mothership. Easy prey, but many captains guessed this was something to draw the majority of their defenses in the open, so hundreds of ships remained powered down, as the fleet cruised past them unaware.
The situation was tense for all, even the Vulcans seemed to show it clearly. On the final approach to Vulcan the fleet stopped suddenly, for reasons unknown. That was when the order was given.
The loan Prometheus class, which was one of the dozen or so ships not decided to go into shutdown, unleashed the first blow, with 4 explosive rounds driving themselves into the shields of a frigate, ripping the shields completely off. Soon others joined in the engagement, with two Ha'taks forcing the Mothership away from Endeavour, and several Vulcan and Andorian cruisers battling the remaining frigates.
RSS Endeavour
The crew were busy manning their stations, orders were given out and been accomplished at insane speeds, the view screen was showing bursts of energy flying pass the ship, and on one occasion fly directly into it ,thank god for shields Veers thought to himself. 4 more rounds fired and cut through the thin armour protecting the frigate, the explosive effect taking overkill to a whole new level, as what was left of the ship was no bigger then a few centimeters in length, satisfied with the kill, the ship moved on to help in the engagement with the Mothership.
Battle
The twin Ha'taks were dishing out all they could, several frigates were purposely engaging them alone, seems the aschen considered bigger is better. Concerntrated fire was hard to do, as the Ha'taks fired sparesly to get the frigates off their backs, it was then a bad situation turned into a worse one, when the mothership re-engaged them. The constant firing between all 3 giants, aswell as the few support craft was deadly at such a close range, orange and blue energy blasts crisscrossed across space, but the lack of concertration of the Ha'taks firing would soon lead to the aschens victory.
But what the Mothership wasn't expecting, was the trio of Blastboat class MTB's to micro jump right in front of it, and unleash a world of pain on them. A total of 6 torpedoes and accompanying gauss fire ripped into the shields, the matter only looked worse for the Aschen crew, when the Endeavour joined in and fired an addition 4 rounds into the newly made hole in the shields.
Unlike its smaller counterparts, the Mothership didn't disintegrate , it imploded. When the rounds cut through the hull, the shells exploded almost dead centre of the ship, leaving the nova to engulf the ship from the inside out. The remaining 7 frigates banded together to engage the Tau'ri fleet, with the remaining allied fleet hot on their tail. Particle blasts, disruptors, as few as dozens of anti-matter torpedoes were fired on each ship one by one, the combined assault took nearly 15 seconds by 40 ships to bring down the shields and destroy the vessel, but in the end it was pure devastation. It was when only 2 frigates remained when all attention as focused on scanners, wave 2 had arrived.