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Chapter 2
Beating the Drums of War
The year is 2062 AD
Earth, Macross City
New United Nations Spacys Headquarters
50 years after the end of the First Space Wars, the Earth and her people have been living in relatively peaceful time and have spread across the galaxy, colonizing more than a thousand new worlds and more in order to spread mankind and preserve the species from extinction.
For a while at least, the years have been peaceful for Earth, with several exceptions like the Macross7, Protodevlin Encounter in 2045 and the Macross Frontier, Vajra Incident that occurred three years ago with the Frontier Fleet.
Now another concern for them just pop up in the discovery of other humans who called themselves 'The Twelve Colonies of Kobol' on the Cyrannus System located in the Cygnus Arm, some 20,000 light years from Earth but close to Demeter at 2,000 light years.
Reading the report about the kobolians is President Jack McKinney, who took an interest on the discovery of other humans and the weekly report sent by their Intelligence scouts reveal a society in the midst of a technological renaissance after two decades of technological stagnation due to 20 year old war, a war against their own creation, the Cylons.
Now ever since the discovery of the Kobolians, the NUNS tries to figure out how humans speaking in Ancient Greek ended up so far from Earth. So a careful exploration around the Cygnus Arm reveals something peculiar, a possible answer to the mystery of the Kobolians.
During this time, a report from the forward Starbase at the Aegis System has alarmed the NUNS and is calling their closest Fleet to go on alert.
"What have we sent to help defend Demeter?" he asks the members of the Joint chiefs
"Sir, Aegis sent 50,000 troops in advance, that's two armored divisions and they will be defending the Ion Cannon installations should the colonials succeeded in landing ground troops, the cannons will most likely be their first target" he told the president "their orders are to hold them off until relieve"
"Admiral Forrest, Macross 3" the president said "he's the closest to Demeter"
Macross 3 is one of 4 Macross Main fleet deployed in the Perseus Arm and they provide protection for the numerous colonies established. They also provide reinforcements for the Frontier Fleet who took the job of colonization from Macross Fleet.
Macross 3 is a fifteen hundred battle ready war fleet not counting the support ships, colony ships and mobile spacedocks.
It also commands twenty of the New Neo Nupetiet-Vergnitzs bis Class Stealth Fleet Command Battleship, fresh from the Factory Satellites on Eden carrying new and more advance technology than their predecessors including a Macross super-dimension-energy cannon replacing the heavy convergent beam cannon.
Macross 3 also has fifty of the new Macross Quarter class battleships as well as squadrons of the latest fighters, the VF-25 Messiah and the VF-27 Lucifer fighters.
"Alright then" the President said "Once this 'Colonial Liberation Fleet' have been stop, I want Forrest to head towards Cyrannus and force a surrender of the Twelve Colonies of Kobol" he ordered "this Holy Crusade of their will not be tolerated"
"Yes Sir, and Sir" the admiral told
"Also, tell Admiral Spelling that help is coming…He just has to hold them off a long as he can"
On Demeter, twelve ships from the 7th Perseus Patrol Fleet is now in orbit and is in the process of deploying satellite defenses and the evacuation of the colonists using the 7th, Zentraedi Nupetiet Vergnitzs class Zentraedi vessel named the Argonauts which they use as a mobile base.
When Rear Admiral Thomas L. Spelling receives the Intel on the colonials, he requested reinforcements from Earth, most preferably a full scale war fleet with bigger guns if possible, one that do overkill.
He got the message that, Macross 3 was rerouted to Demeter because of the Kobol threat, and the Perseus Command was dancing for joy in getting a fleet with the overkill firepower they wanted.
The bad news is that, Macross 3 will take a few days for them get to Demeter and that is three days late before the Colonial Liberation Fleet arrived.
Admiral Spelling has no choice but to hold Demeter as long as they could using what resources he has in his possession, and according to the Intel, there are more than 200 warships the kobolians called battlestars.
200 ships against the Third Perseus Patrol Fleet of 20 ships of varying classes from one fifty year old ARMD-Class Space Carrier used for training, several Oberth-II class Space Destroyer to the current Guantánamo Class Stealth Carrier (CV) and one state-of-the-art Dulfim-Class Space Carrier which is Admiral Spelling flagship, the San Fernando Valley.
He also got help from the SMS, a single Macross Quarter
His ground support are the Ion Cannons installation protected by 50,000 ground troops from the NUNS 1st Marine Armored Division, sent in advance from Aegis Base and along with the Marines are their Mechas, 100 MBR-04-Mk VI Tomahawk, 100 MBR-07-Mk II Spartan and 25 HWR-00 Mk II Monster
CV-125 San Fernando Valley
In the luxurious conference room of the Dulfim, Rear Admiral Spelling is in a meeting with the various commanders in his fleet.
"Despite their technology is inferior to ours, we cannot allow ourselves to be complacent when dealing with human beings especially when it comes to religious zealots" he said "the Kobolians outnumber us 10 to 1 their fighters 200 to 1and these numbers alone may help them if we are not careful, we may end up losing the coming battle for Demeter so don't underestimate them"
"Yes Sir" replied by the commanders and the Admiral nodded in satisfaction
"In three days the Colonial Liberation Fleet will be here, Macross 3 will be here in five days, our job is to hold Demeter for two whole days until the fleet arrives and hold it we will"
Three Days Later
Colonial Liberation Fleet
When Admiral Nagala of the Colonial Defense Fleet first arrived in Demeter star system and sees the ships from the Thirteenth Tribe, he can't imagine how 6 battlestars was bested by only 3 ships no bigger than 500 meters.
From the reports of the only surviving battlestar, it tells of ships no larger than 300 meters are armed with energy weapons and even real energy shields that shrugs off the most powerful nukes in their arsenal.
When the colonial government finally released to the public of their discovery, they portrayed the thirteenth as, a barbaric race that has forgotten their heritage, created false gods and abandon the worships of Zeus and all the Pantheons.
They portrayed their long lost cousins as the worst of the worst in order to gain support in an endeavor, a crusade of liberation and the colonial government got what they wanted as the result.
The day to begin the liberation of the thirteenth tribe is now and Nagala sees twenty ships and only one ship is bigger than the Mercury class battlestar where he believe is the flagship this fleet.
"Begin broadcasting our demands and let's give them 2minutes to respond" Nagala said to his subordinates"their twenty ships is of no threat to our superior numbers even if they have advance technology"
Two minutes past, then they receive a response
"Admiral, we are receiving a message from the thirteenth tribe…it's in kobolian" said the comm. Officer and then patch it on the PA to hear the voice of Admiral Spelling
"To the ships of the Twelve Tribes of Kobol" the man starts "The first time you came here, we welcome you with open arms in behalf of friendship and in return, you threw fire bombs into our house of worship, our church, temples and synagogue and murdered our priests in front of us.
You have no right to tell us who to worship, for we have the free will to choose whatever religion or no religion to worship, it is our god given rights that you dare to usurp
We sent you away and ask you never to return for we want no part of you, but when you return the second time, you try to force your ways into us, as though you had the right to do so. Your ships of war are nothing to us for we the people from Earth have fought and against far more powerful and dangerous foes.
We sent you away again and warned you for the last time; never bother us again, you thepeople of the Twelve Colonies of Kobol are not welcome.
We know that you have been building this fleet for two years in the Cyrannus System your home system, Admiral Nagala" he said which pretty much surprise them
"You tell your people many things about us which are absolutely, CRAP!" The Admiral sounded amused "It's funny really; I mean you've only meet us for just a short time and your government says quite a lot about us which is crap.
Quite the tall tales really, especially about our ships firing the first shot, where the truth is, you fired first and a lightly armed cargo ship respond to that is, blowing holes thru one of your battlestars, Ha! Your Battlestars are a joke"
"C-cargo ships" Nagala or the rest of the CDF didn't know that those ships were just cargo ships. They thought they were fighting warships because of the weaponry. Nagala refuse to believe it, however, if what he said was true then how much damage can their real warship do to his fleet.
He refuses to be intimidated and believes that there is enough ships and firepower to hold their own
"Nagala, we are giving you and you're…flying tin cans, five minutes to turn back to where you came from. Your presence here is an act of war…you are not facing cargo ships this time but full fledge warships. I dare you to fire the first shot"
The NUNS did not have to wait long as Nagala ignored Spellings deadline, he called all of the commanders to engage
"All ships engage, use Plan 9 full attack, no quarter!" he yelled
Plan 9 is to overwhelm one ship (flagship) thru sheer force of numbers and in this case, a spearhead attack with a dozen battlestars in front with modified special reactive armour for beam weapons which they believe that it will soak up battle damage and give enough time for the ones behind them to get close for a close quarter battle using their missiles and more powerful kinetic energy weapons.
Captain Allen Dixon of the San Fernando Valley watches a dozen battlestars heading their way to close the firing gap. He was impressed at the innovative thinking of the kobolians use of reactive armour for according to the intel they received, the reactive armor is composed of quartz type ceramic plates and copper wires sandwich between titanium and Kevlar type materials. A design made to soak up and disperse the energy of beam weapons like a lightning rod.
The information about the kobolians reactive armour, says that it can reduce beam weapons affectivity to as much as fifty percent which is quite impressive but not worrisome for him
"What do you think Allen" the Admiral ask who is sitting just beside the captain's chair
"Their battlestars are formidable but not invulnerable" he said leaning back "we still have the advantage especially in our speed and firepower, so I suggest we shoot far and move fast, taking them on one on one is not an option" he points at the tactical screens "look at the position of their ships, its nearly a straight line with their heavy dreadnaughts in front to soak up our attacks and giving the others behind to hit us once they get close enough to surround us"
"Then let's not give them a chance to get close to us"
In an instant, the flagship moved fast to distance the ship from the incoming battlestars.
The NUNS warships are capable of instantaneous acceleration of up to 1.5 to 2.0 G+ and during combat with sustained speed of 1.0 G+ with their Impulse Drive
A Battlestar such as the Mercury Class, has a top acceleration of 4.0 G+ but only for emergency and combat but cannot sustain such speeds indefinitely due to fuel consumption and the immense strain to their Ion Engines
So when the mad dash of the battlestars was over, each of them burned out one engine and burned a quarter of Tylium fuel.
With the failure of Plan 9 the Battlestar launches their fighters and attack the NUNS flagship and also take out the NUNS fighter cover that still orbiting the planet.
Two thousand Viper and Raptor fighters are about to go toe to toe against twenty five squadrons of Thunderbolt's, Excalibur's and 10 squadrons of VF-25F Messiah and one hundred AIF-7S Ghost fighter controlled by RVF-25
When the colonial fighters were close for a missile strike, they fired a volley of long range missiles and the NUNS responded in kind with AMRAAM and RMS-1Antiship Reaction Warhead missiles also known as 'The Angel of Death'.
To be Continued