Ok, some context here.
Starsector is a 2D top-down style game where you control a fleet in a Sector inside the Milky Way after the collapse of a
Human Empire.
(Update: Removed the fucked up link and also turns out the Sector is inside the Milkyway so I fucked up sorry about that)
In the game you can do….pretty much whatever the hell you want =).
Play this game it's a ton of fun and if you ever get bored you can add mods to it to just make everything great.
And now too present.
Stargate: A Paragon's Dream.
A Stargate and StarSector Crossover.
"Talking"
'Thoughts'
"Goa'uld Speak/Vary Pissed Voice"
"Goa'uld Speak But On Comms/Vary Pissed Voice But On Comms"
"Comms"
1998, April 21st
Earth High Orbit
Paragon Battleship=The Remnants Reckoning
Commander Legion Blitz
"Owwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww that fucking hurt….." I groan as I get up and sit back in my captain's chair.
"Report!" I shout as my crew gets back up and on to their stations.
"Sir the Forward Plasma Cannons are down but most of the PD weapons are online and the Autopulse Lasers are coming online now" My Fire contort officer reports.
"Alright, that is good, engineering what's the status on the Reactor and the engines?" I ask on the Comms system.
"Sir the reactor is cooling down but the engines are in burnout we are fixing them now but it's going to take some time as whatever happened as trashed some Flux capacitors"
My head engineer says.
"Copy just get it done" I order.
"Copy Sir"
"Si…sir you may want to look outside," A crewman says.
I look outside the window to se…no….no it can't be.
It was destroyed hundreds of years ago….how?
" .Hell." I say.
Earth it…is…is….beautiful…
Is this what it looked like hundreds of years ago?
"Nav where the hell are we?!" I shout to my Navigation officer.
"Sir I am checking the old dominion Star charts and while there is some margin of error due to stellar drift and time discrepancies we are in the Orion-Cygnus Arm and jugging from where we are it seems we are in the Sol system or at least the closest approximation to it" He explains.
"No shit really? What was your first clue the FUCKING EARTH IN FRONT OF US?!" A crewman shouts.
"HEY GET OFF MY FUCKING BACK I AM DEALING WITH 2-CENTURY-OLD STAR CHARTS HERE I AM NOT GOD DMAN LUDD OK!?" He shouts back.
"BOTH OF YOU SHUT THE FUCK UP, Comms how is the rest of the fleet doing?" I ask.
God damn it this is turning into a cluster fuck.
"Sir engineering is reporting some of the same problems but are getting them fix, all logistics ships are in the green and all carriers are standing by to lunch fighters, some of the cruisers are starting to get back in formation" He reports.
"Good get me a report on how many supplies we got left and if the….' special' equipment is operation" I order.
"Copy sir"
Ok so…. let's review what's going on.
1. We are in the Milky Way which should be impossible.
2. Our ships are relatively intact and are operational.
3. W-
"SIR WE GOT COMPANY!" My Nav officer shouts.
"What is it?!" I ask.
"Two unknowns both are larger than both Paragon Class battleships and Astral Class Carriers but both have lower power signatures than either" He reports.
"Can we get a visual?" I ask.
"Yes, sir give me..a minute….There!" He says as the main screen shows both ships.
And what comes on is…..
*struggles to hold in laughter*
"..hehe…..HAHA OH MY FUCKING GOD HAHAHA" I burst out laughing.
The rest of the bridge joins as we laugh at the most ridiculous ship design we have ever seen.
Who the fuck makes pyramids as the bases for their ship designs?!
We continue laughing at the bad ship design because seriously who the fuck builds pyramids as ships!
I mean s-
"SIR WE HAVE MISSILE LAUNCHES COMING FROM THE SURFACE!" One of my crewmen shouts.
WHAT!?
"On screen NOW!" I shout.
The screen switches to the surface as two ISBMS launch from North America.
"Sir time to impact 30 seconds!" The same Crewman says.
'Why the hell are they not getting out of the way?' I think to myself as the missile keeps getting closer.
Any ship captain worth their salt would be taking out those missiles as while they may not damage you that much or hell get through the shield they are still fucking nukes and you never underestimate those things.
"Impact in 5.…4.…3.…2...1...IMPACT!"
*BOOM BOOM*
I cover my eyes from the flash.
And as I open my eyes I see…..they are still there.
…..Oh shit.
"Sir those two ships have just noticed us!" The same cr-ok fuck it what was his name again?
I look at his name tag.
James Lee
"All hands battle stations! Fire control what's our weapons status!" I ask.
"Sir all guns are operational however repairs are not done so we are going to have to divert more Flux into the guns than normal" He responds.
"Copy, James what are they both doing?" I ask.
"Sir both are on an intercept course with us and will be here in 3 minutes" He responds.
"Copy, Comms signal the carriers to launch fighters and have them screen us and signal the light cruisers Wrath's End and The Sundering to escort us and order the rest of the fleet to envelop them in an encirclement and have the Logistics ships get out of the combat zone at full burn, they can not be allowed to be boarded" I order.
"Copy Sir"
Ok, so they have vary impressive shields.
I grin.
'Let's see what they think of my plasma canons'.
1998, April 21st
Earth High Orbit
Goa'uld Mothership (Klorel)
Colonel Jack O'Neill
"Ok 1.…2.….3!" I say as me and Carter quickly open the door and throw one of those…Goa'uld knock out grenades.
At least we were about to when we see something…odd.
"YOU WILL BOW BEFORE YOU GOD"
"AND I TOLD YOU TO SUCK MY FUCKING DICK ASSHOLE" Shouts the man on screen.
I turn to Carter with an eyebrow raised.
"Such insolence, I will torture you for eternity!" KLorel shouts.
"Yea and I am the Fucking Prophet, why the hell are you even here anyway?" The mystery man says.
Okkkkk let's get a move on.
While those two bicker we manage to get behind his guards and before they and he can react we Zat them.
….
*BOOMING SILENCE*
…
"Weeeeeeellllllllllll this is awkward," He says.
I give him a deadpan stare.
"Nooooo really?" I say.
And in response, he glares at me.
"Ok before we start an insulting match can you tell us who are you?" Carter asks.
"Well at least someone has brains, vary well My Name is Commander Legion Blitz Leader Of the….the….Hey Guys what do we call ourselves again?!" He shouts behind him.
I raise an eyebrow at Carter again meanwhile Jackson is dumbfounded while Teal'c….has the same expression as always.
After a few minutes of arguing he comes back.
"Ok sorry about that! No one as really asked in…God 3? Maybe 4 Cycles? Anyway, we are Athena's Crusade!" He Boasts.
"Wait…why are you called that?" Daniel asks.
"Oh, that is because 1. It sounds cool 2. I found a really old historical record about the Old religions on Earth and 3. I could not think of anything else" He explains.
"Wait wait wait wait…..you know about Earth?" I ask.
"Ummmmm…yeaaaaaaaaa….I mean we can see it in front of us and unless all of our images have been wrong about what Earth looks like and I highly doubt that, I mean it's not like….HEY JANKENS GO CHECK IF OUR IMGAES OF EARTH ARE WRONG" He shouts.
"Ok yes, this is Earth," I say quickly because we are on a timetable.
"Ok Great! Next question why did you fire ISBMS at the two ships you are on?" He asks
"Well they were going to enslave Earth sooooo…..kind had to you know?" I say sarcastically.
Ok, this is just getting weird who in the hell are these guys where they came from, and…..and now they are all staring at me.
"WHAT" Ok he does not seem to be happy….
"DO"
"YOU"
"MEAN"
"BY"
"THAT?" Ok yeaaaaaaaa defiantly not happy.
"Ok, you know what? Fuck it we are going to talk later right now I got to kill a giant pyramid. By the way, I am going to send some marines to board your ship and start clearing it out mind turning off its shields and guns please?" He asks.
"Uh sure?" I say.
"Good see you in a bit, COME ON BOYS IT'S TIME FOR BATTLE" I hear a large cheer in the background before the screen cuts out.
"….Well that was….interesting?"
1998, April 21st
Earth High Orbit
Battle Space
NO ONE P.O.V.
It would be around this time that most commanders would retreat when you are outnumbered 9-1 literally.
But Apophis was not a smart commander, hell he was clever but not really battlefield smart.
His Jaffa were, however, since he had a tendency to shoot Jaffa that spoke of how stupid a plan was most if not all of them kept their mouths shut and so would be the end of the Serpent God.
And to top it all off he was surrounded on all sides with multiple fighters coming in.
See this he also deployed fighters to intercept them and then strike at the Light Cruisers guarding the Reckoning.
Suddenly and without any warning multiple Beams shoot from the fleet ranging from Ion Beams to Graviton Beams to the small Tactical Lasers.
Of course with the exception of the Graviton Beam most of these attacks would be useless on the armor/hull as these were meant to add stress on the shield wearing them down until either they were overstressed and disabled the ship or if the shield were turned off in which case you usual die…usual.
And then….then were the heavy hitters meant to turn a ship into scrap metal and one of these was the Reckoning which was equipped with Plasma Cannons.
Now normal plasma cannons on common warships in the Milky way galaxy work on the same principle or really just Goa'uld plasma weapons.
They are loaded with Liquid Naquadah to power it and then when fired shoots out a blob of plasma energy vary fast.
(Side Note: I don't really know how Goa'uld plasma weapons work all I really know is that they are loaded with Liquid Naquadah to power them and can last a couple of hundred years without reloading)
However, Dominion Plasma Cannons are very very different from Goa'uld plasma weaponry.
The official description on how it works is well….I will let you read it yourselves.
"Plasma Cannons are related to Graviton and Phase Beams, in that they use the properties of brane physics to deliver their payloads. A plasma cannon shell is a microfusion bomb which uses gravitic and baryonic lens to focus its energy inward. The resulting explosion creates plasma which is contained by a temporary mini-universe anomaly, while magnetic drivers mounted on the forward pylons accelerate it toward the target. The containment field lasts only a couple of seconds, which is usually enough for the anomaly to reach a target. If the convex hull of the field is not breached by ordinary matter/energy delivering least 9 kN, the higher brane will absorb the destructive plasma, and it will vanish from our dimension forever." (This is from the officially in-game description btw)
What all of this means is that Apophis is royally fucked.
*BOOM BOOM BOOM*
3 hits with the Plasma cannons and the shields break as it was already under stress from the Beams and missiles flying at it.
And that was the First Volley.
However, that does not mean that Apophis is taking this lying down and has been firing at the Reckoning relentlessly.
*BUZZ CRACK*
The Battleship suddenly spazzes as it had been overloaded due to it firing all of its guns and keeping the shield on as generated enough Flux to overload the ship leaving it adrift.
Legion knew this would happen as had the Light Cruisers he ordered to escort him and with the overload, the Cruisers took a protective screening protecting the Reckoning.
The fighter meanwhile have been decimating the Deathglider squadrons killing dozens at a time mainly because pretty much everything outclasses Deathgliders.
Meanwhile with the other Mothership SG-1 has successfully taken out the shields and engines and weapons allowing multiple fighters to clean up any fighters guarding the ship allowing shuttles to board the hanger.
1998, April 21st
Earth High Orbit
Goa'uld Mothership (Klorel)
Shuttle 1
NO ONE P.O.V
"All right boys and girls listen up, the commander has ordered us to take this ship and help the VIP team that is stuck on the bridge, so these are your objectives.
1. Secure the bridge
2. Secure engineering
3. Kill everyone that's not the VIPs
GOT MARINES?!" Shouted the squad leader.
"SIR YES SIR!"
"DAMN RIGHT-RACKS A SHOTGUN SHELL-NOW MOVE IT!"
*BANG*
The ramp is lowered and with that, the Marines charged into the plasma fire of multiple Jaffa.
Now what you have to remember is that while normal people and normal armor quickly fail against Staff Weapons these are former Dominion power armors and weapons and with everything they built they built it in mind for one thing and one thing only.
OVERKILL
So while normal people would have quickly died to the plasma fire of Staff weapons the power took it and keep going on.
It was also unfortunate that most if not all the marines were very very experienced soldiers with some being from the Dominion era as Legion managed to save them from eternity in cryo.
Meaning that every Jaffa on that ship was Dead the moment they got on board.
"FUCKING KILL THEM ALL!" The marine leader said.
While the Jaffa were putting up a good effort in repealing the invaders however they weren't really trained to deal with 7-foot tall death machines armed with MGs as their main weapons.
The marines moved through them like death itself mowing down countless Jaffa with plasma shots flying everywhere.
Eventually, they got through the Jaffa and blew the door open to reveal…..more Jaffa which quickly got mowed down and filled with hundreds of bullets.
"Ok Squad 1 move to engineering and lock it down, Squad 2 you're with me we are heading towards the bridge, Everyone got that!?" The Marine Leader asked.
"SIR YES SIR"
"Alright then, let's move it!"
1998, April 21st
Earth High Orbit
Battle Space
NO ONE P.O.V.
Meanwhile, in space, the battle was going very well for the fleet.
The Serpent God's ship was crumbling with fires across all decks and to make things worse the hyperdrive was disabled so they could not run.
But the ship would not go down, not without a fight at least.
*BOOM BOOM*
Another volley but this time some of the shots missed but still it took its toll on the Mothership.
Armor and Hull plating were either melting off or just being disintegrated outright.
That's not to mention the hanger bay has been completely destroyed.
By now this is not a battle, it's a long-drawn-out execution.
*BOOOOOOM*
One of the beam shots hits something critical and a wing of the mothership goes in flames.
Legion at this point is just playing with it, and also seeing how much damage it could take.
But it's time to end this.
Legion orders all remaining Marines on the Reckoning and on the Wrath's End and The Sundering to prepare for boarding.
The enemy ship is crippled.
AND NOW ITS TIME FOR THE KILL.
Ok so to explain All of this I am going to have to explain some stuff.
1. I have had this idea stuck in my head for a bit and at first it was going to be this whole mystery thing but I decided against it cuz it would have been pretentious.
2. Starsector is amazing! And also I really my battleship and also the fleet here is based on my current game.
1x Paragon
1x Astral
2x Atlas Superfreighters
2x Prometheus Supertankers
1x Apogee Cruiser
1x Aurora Cruiser
3x Fury Light Cruisers
1x Heron Fast Carrier
1x Nebula Civilian Transport
2x Phaeton Tankers
2x Strike Light Destroyers
1x Medusa Destroyer
1x Scarab Heavy Frigate
1x Condor Light Carrier
2x Dram Light Tankers
2x Buffalo Freighters
Now the reason almost all of this is just logistics ships is cuz I mainly do exploratory expeditions deep into the sector and I need a lot of fuel and supplies to get me there.
And also cuz I am a cheapskate and also I spend around 300,000 credits to 600,000 credits for all of my supplies and fuel.
Btw 1 credit is 1000$ US money.
So yeah all of this shit is fucking expensive.
Anyway, I will update this when I can however for the next two weeks I will be focusing on The Best of the Brave so yeaaaaaaaaaaaaa.
Thanks for reading! I will always respond to reviews so plz send them my way!
