ESS Yamato
The geometric form of the strike carrier moved gracefully into position, it cleared right through the growing fighter opposition, either cutting them apart with railgun fire, or literally ramming them, the crew barely felt a shudder, when the numerous fighters slammed up against the reinforced shield grid, explosions splashing against the thin blue light, it grew brighter and brighter with each hit. Dozens of fighters broke off from the carrier, unwilling to be caught in the assault, moving out of range of the point defence cannons, it didn't stop the carrier from firing its heavy weapons. The five heavy railguns charged magnetic accelerators, taking aim at the retreating interceptors, the heavy bolts erupted out of their tubes, flying at past even hypersonic speeds, almost instantly they completely obliterated their targeted fighters, the insanely accurate targeting systems predicting where the fighters would be in the 0.0041 second time delay between firing and impacting. 5 fighters exploded in the attack, before the cannons traced the next group, the carrier constantly moving forward through the swarm of goa'uld and Terran fighters, its target growing nearer and nearer, the giant form of a new Mothership design.
Rome, Italy, Earth
In a small facility inside the city CBD, was a rather large and spacious room, tiled in whites and blues, its walls covered with massive computer systems, and a few occupants ran from wall to wall, checking calculations, running quick and final tests, but one object in the room was clear above all others, a large computer panel decorated the northern wall, it was a map of Italy, an incredibly detailed one at that, across the nations land, was a neon green light covering most of the landscape, on several viewed in positions, you could even see the growth taking place, spreading like a virus to a human, Tiberium was destroying earth bit by bit, mutating the very surface to its own form. Several sections showed real time images of the outskirts of Rome, once home to both ancient building from centuries before, and even in modern expansion, was now a Tiberium wasteland, buildings uprooted, Tiberium crystals spurting out of highways, even a strange vein like plant was spreading across the buildings, roads, sinking into them, almost eating its way through the concrete, brick and stone that made up the suburb. Dr. Tasso looked sadly at the numerous images, Italy was falling to the Tiberium plague, any attempts at mining it, barely slowed the spread down, it grew across all of northern Italy, and was now moving down south, Rome was in its path, and if they didn't stop the spread soon, all of Italy will be a giant patch of mutative green crystals, draining all nutrients and minerals from the surface into them, leaving a wasteland behind them. Today, they hoped to make a difference, to at least save the inner city, the holy grounds of catholic Christianity, and home of millions, all in the push of a button, will they be safe.
Tasso turned from the video screen, walking towards the main computer interface, which two young scientists manned, "This is it, activate the final relays."
One of them swived on his chair to face the lead scientists, smiling softly." Already done sir, we just need you to give the final order."
The Doctor returned the expression, he was smiling widely. "Well then, why are you waiting? Activate the grid!"
With a mock salute, the young man returned to his station, his counterpart next to him scoffed slightly, the woman knew that the previous attempts didn't make this one look likely to succeed "Really now Doctor Tasso, this is still only a test, we shouldn't get our hopes up so much."
The middle age man smiled softly at his young protégé, "Ah, but I have a right to be optimistic, even if this does fail, it will be create a wealth of knowledge into shield technology, this is something even our allies in space have never successfully done, a full city size shields, a feat on the level of asgard, or even the ancients."
'True, but we are getting ahead of ourselves, this is a vitally important objective, its estimated we have roughly 3 months before Tiberium makes it inside the designated shield barrier, despite what our mining efforts do, even GDI's help into its development is not helping enough, we must bring in further help!"
The calm smiling face of the doctor quickly turned to a scowl, he had no great love for the growing high tech corporations, he was originally one of the lead scientists for a growing corporation, VersaLife, started just over two decades ago, even during the stargate programs secrecy, they managed to acquire several pieces of alien technology, speeding the commercial growth of technology, and making billions because of it, by the time of disclosure, Dr Tasso discovered the origin of this technology and spoke out against the corporation for deceiving even their own research teams, he was promptly fired, publicly for doing 'illegal research', but in truth, for merely speaking out against the giants.
"No, GDI and the Italian government is all the backing we need, remember we still have 3 months, we will make it by then, but now is not the time to speculate!" the smile returned to the doctors face, he reached over the woman's station, and pressed several keys, "its now time for testing!"
The giant screen flicked out to a view of the city outskirts, a metallic grid circled though the abandoned sections of the city, the blue metal rails joined together like a futuristic train track, with the final calibrations, the rails emitted electric like bolts between each other, it grew and grew with intensity with each second, the connecting bolts shot up into the air, reaching at least 100 metres before dissipating. The effect took place around the entire perimeter, dozens of kilometres of trail, this was the initial effects of early firestorm 'shields' a mere energy barrier that didn't even form a dome, but they we're the first successful attempts at energy shields, and this right now was the first such attempt on such a gigantic scale.
Dr. Tasso grinned widely, "Well done to both of you!" he dashed slightly to the secondary terminal, watching the data come in, his smile only grew wider, "The shields holding, 100 strength, it seems the first test is successful."
The female scientists smiled weakly, her eyes gave a sight look of disappointment, but the man did not notice, and continued to go over the read out, she on the other hand, brought out a small data disk, Blu-Ray disks were now common use, as the compact disk was to the 1990's and the DVD to the early 21st century. She gently pushed it into the drive, and a program uploaded itself into the computer system, the hidden worm spread throughout the mainframe, soon Dr. Oxanna Kristos would make the Italian people, and more importantly, the Vatican, see that the brotherhood was the way to enlightenment, salvation and peace.
ESS Yamato
The silver grey hull of the Yamato flashed brightly, the carrier-Mothership had begun opening fire with its heavy cannons, the orange plasma bolts erupted out of dozens of weapon emplacements across the gigantic ship, tracking against the surprisingly swift Yamato, running against the goa'uld crafts outer shield layer, its point defence cannons fired at extremely close range, the hypersonic rounds burst into the orange toned fields of energy, the protecting layers barely felt a single hit, but what the Terran ship fired was not one, but thousands of rounds. The trinium shells pelted against the barrier, eating away at the energy field second by second, the wall of metal pushed harder and harder, even as the Yamato moved at speeds that would put some fighters to shame, its assault constantly hitting the isolated section of the shield grid. The strike ship pulled off, slowing its attack somewhat, many of the defensive turrets now blocked from their target, but the attack would not stop because of it, the Yamato was merely opening the path for its escorts.
12 Orca gunships twist and turned through the ongoing battle between fighters, the multi-directional ion drives let them move in any direction as if they we're charging forward at full burn, many of the pilots thanked god for the internal dampeners, or throwing up would be the least of their problems. The dozen craft broke through the swarms of fighters, rapidly moving towards the battling capital ships, leaving strong blue beam like trails behind them.
Lieutenant Commander Samuels wish she could wipe the sweat off her brow, the damn chunky helmets issued to all space pilots were designed in case the atmosphere was leaked, a 3 hour supply was in the tanks, too often had they saved a pilots life in mass fighter combat, hell she just left one of those behind her, but they certainly got annoying in more then 5 minutes of flying, at least to her.
"Commander we're approaching the cap-ships…getting a message from the Yamato, patching it through," the 'back seat driver' as she liked to call it, the co-pilot, Lieutenant Douglas Jones informed her.
She activated the small monitor just below her H.U.B, the image of Captain Mukai flashed into existence, she secretly hid a grin, she loved these things, so much better then radio.
The lightly wrinkled face of the Yamato's captain took a stroke of seriousness, the bridge rocked lightly every now and again, the multi-layer shield grid worked wonders to say the least ."Commander, you are to strike at the designated area, we will draw their fire and begin assaults at random areas of the shield, but you must hurry, our readings show a faster regeneration rate over what we're used to." His thick Japanese accented English was still quite hard to understand too many of the English speaking crew members, but every one was at least trying to break the communication barriers down, it was one of the key parts of a functioning ships crew.
She nodded, the masked face showing not the hint of emotion, the captain only knew of the clear determination in her voice, "We'll be there in 32 seconds sir, we just left the fighters behind us and are movi.., wait I got something..SHIT!" the connection cut by itself, as a newly uncloaked Goa'uld fighter ripped into the Orca's unaware rear, the weakened rear shields collapsed almost instantly, the ripples of blue energy hit against the open armour, now a clear and open path for the incoming bolts of plasma. The giant ion engines twisted to port under the swift commanders of its pilot, the full intensity of the engines pushed it into an extremely fast strafe, the drives slowly manoeuvred with the now turning gunship, the skilled manoeuvre had drawn it out of the fighters firing arc, and into its own.
"Get the railguns active quickly!" Samuels ordered to her co-pilot, the young man frantically tried to activate the weapons, it was time for the gunship to enter a dogfight.
Rome, Italy
Across the city's perimeter, the spectacular display of giant steams of electrical light, it had been going for several minutes now, and crowds had gathered to watch the show, as if it we're a fireworks display. Thousands of peoples we're mere metres from the grid, daring children's even attempted to touch it, only for their parents to wisely draw them back. Little did they know, that the growing virus in the systems computer relays, we're stealthily passing through the encryptions designed to counter such measures, continually spreading through the extensive systems, until it reached its destination, the power generators.
Shield Power Generator #4
Technician Alan Davis swung on his chair in a bored mood, after seeing the grid in action for a few minutes, it got dreadfully boring, just a constant sparkle of blue lights in his opinion. So he returned to his computer, starring aimlessly into space despite the image of him reading the constant flow of data.
The cleaner entered the chamber like room with barely a sound, bringing out a mop and bucket like those used in decades past, he began his washing of the floors, water washed against the freshly planted tiles, and reflected the lights above, strangely enough, it also gave of an orange aura of such, looking confused he followed the beam of light, towards the reinforced glass window on the other side of the room. He cautiously approached the window, peeking slowly into it, he saw the reactor room, a total mess and getting worse.
"Mr Davis, I think you might want to have a look at this." He called out to the man still aimlessly spinning around. Jumping slightly at the statement, he got up, rubbed his face and readjusted his glasses, sheepishly he approached.
"What is it?" he asked the cleaner a bit grumpily, looked curiously where the man was pointing and saw it for himself. Whatever remnant of sleep that was left in his body, it was gone at the sight of the warning signs going on and off throughout the reactor room. Frantically he ran to the sealed door, punched in the 5 keys on the lock and opened the titanium containment door with whatever force he could muster. The freshly recycled air filled the chamber, the former vacuum started to be oxygenated, but Davis didn't care, he needed to shut down the reactor, the small device was supported on a platform in the centre of the room, it was amazing that the small reactor had enough power to fuel an entire city, but with that power it was also a lethal weapon, and now the technician was attempting a manual shut down.
Pulling the main switch up, the multiple blue lights across the reactors chassis did not glow as expected, Davis didn't really take notice as he put the switch into the off position, but it did nothing. Shocked Davis continued to slam down on the off position for whatever good it would do, frustrated and scared he remembered the computer interface. The small computer at the other end of the chamber was thankfully already booted up, the technician tried all he could to disable the reactor through the computer but every time he got an unauthorized access message, he panicked with the next message however, it was totally different from the rest.
'You have sided with the enemy of the holy might of Nod, and as such are a victim in this holy war, let Rome and the Vatican know what happens to those that betray the mighty word of God, and his chosen disciple, the glorious leader Kane!'
And with that moment, the grounds for hundreds of miles shook. As 6, 5 megaton blasts erupted throughout Rome, in the safety of the shield control facility, Dr. Oxanna Kristos hid a smile at the violent eruption from all directions, while the devastation would be massive the city will survive, albeit severely weakened, but her mission was complete, for the signal to destroy the reactors was a GDI one, and was using 'faulty' GDI reactors, the blame would be shifted to them alone, making the eventual conquering of this nation that much easier.