May 26, 2457 AD/2157 CE
Shanxi system
Shanxi orbit
Orbital station
The orbital station sat at the very back of the fleet while the Ptolemy was in front of the station.
Sitting in her command chair was Kati Mannequin as she watched the fleet hold position in the formation that she had them take after she and Sumeragi created a tactical plan.
"Major General, all mobile suit teams are on standby and ready for your word." Francis says appearing on a pedestal next to her.
"Understood, when the enemy fleet arrives we shall try to deviate from conflict by attempting communications and should they fail to answer then we shall engage in combat." Mannequin says and the AI nods his virtual head.
A holographic screen pops up and Kati looks to see Patrick in the cockpit of a GN-XIV Command type.
"Colonel, I'm heading out!" Patrick says and Kati narrows her eyes saying "For the last time its General! Huh?" Patrick smiles as Kati donned a concerned looking and she says "Don't die."
Patrick salutes saying "Understood!"
The screen vanishes as Francis says "So you still care about that screw-up?"
Kati's answer was a stern look to the AI who responded by holding his hands up.
May 26, 2457 AD/ 2157 CE
Exodus cluster
Utopia system
Relay 314
The Turian fleet of 290 ships had begun amassing at the mass relay. Desolas Arterius stood on the bridge of his dreadnought the Glory Wing; he was checking the final results of the fleet. He was looking through his data pad at the information on the fleet; to him it appeared everything was in order.
"General, Commander Vyrnnus and Captain Actuss are on the line for you sir." Said the coms officer.
Desolas walked up to the com and pressed a button, on the holo screen Vyrnnus and Actuss popped up. "Give me a status report?" Asked Desolas
"All ships are ready to proceed through the relay on your orders." Replied Vyrnnus
"We've sent probes through the relay there is no enemy ships on the other side." Said Actuss. "But the probes detected a large armada of ships over the planet we detected last time."
"Alright, begin to move out now; we will subdue this species and take their technology." Said Desolas
The entire fleet began passing through the relay, but they were unaware that a probe monitoring them and was sending signals through the relay to Shanxi.
Shanxi system
ESF colony Shanxi
Orbit
Above the planet Shanxi the fleet of 192 ships with the addition of the Ptolemy and the Artorious were prepared to defend the colony from anything the Turians could throw at them should they attack. Both Admiral Grissom and Major General Mannequin were in charge of the fleet while General Williams was in charge of the ground forces. Grissom was sitting in his chair ready and waiting for the Turians to show up. He, Mannequin, and Williams had done everything they could to prepare Shanxi for a fight should it come to an invasion from the Turians.
"Admiral, Major General, the probes from the other side of the relay and the one in the system has detected the Turian fleet approaching ETA six minutes." Said Francis.
"You catch all that Major General?" Asked Grissom, looking behind him to see Kati sitting in her chair. Both were on board the orbital station.
"Yes I did. I pray it doesn't come to war." Kati says even though she knew it would be war.
Ptolemy
bridge
Sumeragi sat in her chair on the bridge waiting to see what the Turians move would be even though she knew it would be an attack.
"Zabanya, Harute, and Raphael are on the catapult deck, 00 Qan[T], Arche Drei, and 1.5 are on standby." Feldt says from her station.
"Weapons systems are operational, GN missile count at 100%, GN shields online, and particle output at 100% no changes." Lasse says from his station.
'Once the Turians enter the system Kati will send a message warning them that should they continue their course then we would open fire.' Sumeragi thought as she watched the stars.
A screen pops up next to her chair and she looks to see David wearing his blue normal suit.
"This will be the first full out battle in centuries don't you think Sumeragi?" David asked trying to raise everyone's spirits.
"Yes it is but with the evacuation complete I still fear for those on the ground should the Turian weapons miss the ships." Sumeragi says and David nodded his head in agreement knowing that should a single round strike the planet then it would be like a small nuclear bomb.
"I pray to god that we end this fighting quickly." Shepard says cutting the link as the Turian fleet arrived.
Turian dreadnought Glory Wing
CIC
The Turian fleet had arrived 250,000 Kilometers from Shanxi. Desolas was standing in the CIC of his dreadnought looking at the replaced galaxy map at the enemy forces; he was amazed how a race so new could build ships that big and amass them that soon. What really held his attention was the Ptolemy which was just as big as the Destiny Ascension. "They will become an excellent client race." He said to himself. He then noticed the huge space stations or that's what he thought they were, before he could say anything his comms officer reported to him.
"General the unidentified race has sent a message in our own language to us, should I allow it over the comm?" said the comms officer as he looked at the General for compliance.
Desolas was momentarily shocked that the message was in Turian. He then remembered from Actuss's report that a frigate had been captured. The aliens must have been able to crack the computers and decipher their language. "They will make an excellent client race indeed." He said to himself. He then looked at the comms officer and gave his answer.
"No! They are probably demanding our surrender." Said Desolas "Continue on and fire once we reach maximum weapons range."
Orbital station
Mannequin waited for a reply but after a full twenty seconds there was no response.
"It seems they have chosen the path of battle." Mannequin whispered before she heard Francis say "All wings on standby, ready to fire long range missiles!"
A screen pops up in front of her as she says "Very well, all ships fire the first wave of missiles!"
"Aye, aye firing missiles!" One of the operators yelled before the entire fleet minus the Ptolemy fire their GN missiles.
Glory Wing
CIC
Desolas's fleet had just reached 150,000 kilometers and slowly approached the enemy fleet before his sensors operator says "General we just lost the scanners and long range communications is disabled so we can't contact outside the relay."
Desolas remembered that the same thing happened to Actuss's fleet before another Turian yells "General missiles incoming!"
Desolas looked from the operator to the map watching as what looked like 3,000 missiles flew towards his fleet.
"All ships use GUARDIAN lasers to destroy those missiles!" said Desolas
The missiles flew at the fleet which when the missiles reached the range of their lasers began firing but the lasers were only able to take down 2,843 while the rest crashed into the fleet destroying 14 ships while the particles from the missiles damaged the other ships hull.
"WHAT JUST HAPPENED?" shouted Desolas "How did they get a lock from this distance?"
"It seems that they have a good weapons range sir. We just lost a dreadnought, five cruisers, and seven frigates along with some damage to another four cruisers." Replied the sensors operator
Orbital station
(Play song: Gundam 00: Awakening of the trailblazer OST: ELS ~ Impregnability)
Mannequin watched the missiles explode but was a bit relieved to see that most of the missiles were able to punch through the Turians defense system.
"All missiles have hit their targets!" One of the sensor operators shouted.
"Major General the Turians just lost fourteen ships!" Another sensor operator shouted.
"Very well, prepare to fire both Orbital Particle Cannons! Once fired we will attempt close range combat with our mobile suit teams!" Mannequin says with a serious tone.
"Understood Major General. All mobile suits prepare to launch!" Francis says through the comms.
Fleet
In the fleet every GN-XIV, regular layouts, or customs, GN-XIII, Gaga cannon, and Flag Astros took off while on the Ptolemy the Zabanya, Raphael, and Harute took off with the 1.5 Arche Gundam Drei, and 00 Qan[T] going last.
Inside one of the GN-XIV command types sat Andrei Smirnov as the Turian fleet drew closer.
"The difference in fighting strength is ten thousand to one. The situation could be worse. but no matter what I will fight to protect it. I will fight to protect what both mother and father are standing for!"
The mobile suits drew closer to the enemy fleet as said fleet drew closer to the planet.
One of the mobile suit teams which were made up of the new Brave units was the Solbraves team lead by Graham Aker.
Graham opened up a squad channel and says "Remember that even though these Turians use fighters they aren't able to shoot you down so whatever happens let me make one thing clear… don't die!"
"Yes sir!" Was the reply as he switched to fleet wide.
"Orbital Particle Cannons seventy five percent charged!" Francis's voice said through the line.
Glory Wing
CIC
"General the new race has deployed all of their mechs and what looks like fighters as well!" A Turian says as Desolas looked over the map but what really caught his attention were the mechs using green light particles instead of red ones but they looked more like demons to him.
'Actuss reported only encountering two mechs so that means that those were prototypes.' Desolas was staring at the two demon mechs while he was more focused on the one that looked like it had blue wings and another that had large vents on its back remembering that the winged mech was the mech that Actuss reported destroying a single cruiser in one shot while both mechs wiped out all of his fighters.
ESF fleet
The mobile suit teams stopped just in front of the ESF fleet while the Turian fleet drew closer.
"This is it." David quietly said as he watched the ships drew closer.
"Ninety percent charged!" Francis says over the line and most of the mobile suits move out of the way so that they don't accidentally get caught in the beams.
"This is the day that will likely change Humanity." Tieria says as the Gundams stopped in a line.
"One hundred percent charged!" Francis shouted
Glory Wing
CIC
"Sir I'm picking up a massive energy spike!" The sensors operator shouted.
"What!?" Shouted Desolas in surprise
Orbital station
"Commence strafing!" Mannequin shouted
"Commencing strafing!" Francis shouted before the two OPC's release two large orange beams which shot through space towards the Turian fleet cutting through them and destroying 16 more frigates, 8 more cruisers, and 7 more dreadnoughts.
Glory Wing
CIC
"WHAT JUST HAPPENED?" Shouted Desolas in disbelief
"I think those stations are equipped with long range energy weapons sir." The sensors operator shouted.
"Don't panic, I want half the frigates to target those stations, cripple them if they can, launch all fighters to target the enemies fighters and mechs but watch out for those demon mechs and get the remaining frigates to overwhelm and collapse the enemies shields. I'll take the cruisers and remaining dreadnoughts to finish the kill."
Orbital station
Everyone was relieved that the particle cannons worked on the Turian fleet before Mannequin gave them their next instructions.
"All ships attack with particle cannons while mobile suit teams carry out their assault with the Gundams providing support! Moving up to mop-up operation!"
Space Battle
The battle had begun. The Turian fleet began moving themselves into position as Desolas has ordered. As they did the ESF fleet opened fire delivering a barrage of particle beams. Most of the beams hit their mark, eight Turian frigates were completely destroyed as the rounds hit them, and other frigates were spaced as the beams narrowly missed them. five cruisers were utterly destroyed as the ESF ships focused their fire on them. Other particle beams focused on the dreadnoughts but the ships were suffering light damage with only one being destroyed.
As both fleets drew closer to one another the Turian fighters and ESF mobile suits met head on. The mobile suits were at 1,008 while the Turian interceptors were ranged at 2,040. Despite being out numbered the mobile suits had the advantage of their GN drives, their maneuverability, and their assortment of weapons. The Turians were surprised as they met the head-on that their enemies had shields.
The Turians lost 25 fighters to the mobile suits as the beams passed through their kinetic barriers. They regrouped and placed each other into squadrons to target the mobile suits, it worked and the ESF last two GN-XIV, three Gaga cannons, four Over Flags, and three GN-XIII but the Gundams were the difficult opponent.
The Braves flew through the field maneuvering around the bullets and missiles while also firing particle beams on Turian ships.
The fleets now met all out, it was a free for all. Turians launched their disruptor torpedoes firing on the ESF ships taking down some of their ships shields, a Virginia carrier was destroying by one of the Turians mass accelerator cannons. The ESF fleet returned with their particle missiles, destroying two more cruisers and six frigates. The fighters and mobile suits continued to fight in and out of the large vessels with both mobile suits and Turian interceptors being destroyed. The OPC's were online again and opened fire on the Turians destroying another dreadnought, four cruisers, and six frigates.
Shanxi Orbit
Space battle
Harute flew through the battle firing both its particle beams and using its GN scissors to cut down Turian fighters.
"These guys are pretty determined." Allelujah mutters as he fires his GN cannons destroying a Turian frigate.
Allelujah feels some a tingle a the back of his head and looks to see 4 Turian interceptors flying at him.
"Not fast enough!" Hallelujah yelled as the Harute transformed and shot down the four fighters.
"There's so many!" Tieria yelled as he fired his GN cannons destroying a Turian cruiser before detaching the claws which went after some Turian interceptors.
"We have to stop them here!" Lockon yelled as he fired his rifles and bits while his shield bits prevented the Turians from hitting the Zabanya.
"If we fail here then the Turians may get an advantage if they acquire our GN drives!" David shouted as he moved the 1.5's binders to the rifle where he fired a large beam which punched through a Turian frigate but not before it curved striking a Turian cruiser destroying both.
Graham flies his Brave command type between two Turian cruisers as three Turian interceptors chased after him trying to shoot him down.
"This is too easy." Graham says with a smile as he transformed the Brave and spun around firing its rifle destroying the pursuing fighters before it spun around firing a Drake Howling which struck a Turian frigate passing through its kinetic barriers striking the reactor and turning the ship into a ball of fire.
"You won't win like this!" Nena shouted as she sent out her GN fangs which destroyed four Turian fighters before she brought up her GN field which protected her from a mass accelerator round that was meant for a Nile-class cruiser.
"Damn you!" Nena shouted firing her beam pistol and striking the vessel dead on the bridge destroying the vessel.
Shepard piloted the 1.5 where it flew in front of a Volga cruiser and placed the binders at the shield where it created a powerful GN field blocking a Turian cruiser before he moved out of the way so the cruiser can fire both its particle cannons and missiles destroying the cruiser.
"We may have a slight advantage but it doesn't mean the battle could change to the enemies favor!" Shouted David as he released his GN fangs destroying five Turian interceptors and another cruiser.
Space Battle
Despite the ESF's original success the Turians were still pressing towards Shanxi. They had lost 82 out of their original 290. Almost half of their numbers. Meanwhile the ESF had lost 27 out of their 194. While the Turians still had the advantage in numbers the ESF ships had the power to overcome them. The only problem was that the amount of fire that the Turian ships were pumping out was starting to take its toll on the shields of the ESF cruisers. Most were still holding, but this would become a problem if this battle dragged out. The ESF CIWS had kept most of the Turians disruptor torpedoes at bay, but there were a lot of them. Two more Virginia's and a Baikal shields had weakened by a constant barrage of torpedoes and then destroyed by the mass accelerator rounds from the Turian cruisers and dreadnoughts.
The OPC's were in danger as well. They had defense cannons as well as GN shields, and it was a good thing otherwise they all would have been destroyed by now. At the orders of Desolas, at the start of the battle 61 out of the surviving 122 frigates had split off from the fleet under the command of Actuss and attacked the OPC's. Now some of the frigates under Actuss and Desolas's command had been destroyed. The Ptolemy along with three Baikal cruisers and two Nile carriers were doing their best to protect the OPC's, but they couldn't be everywhere. One OPC had already been destroyed by the Turians constant fire of disrupter torpedoes and the last was reverting power from all systems to its shields.
(End song)
Shanxi
Shanxi Defense Force HQ
War room
General Williams had been watching the whole battle on the holotank. It was going reasonable well. The Turians numbers and their rapid fire abilities were the main problem. The ESF could win this fight, but at a cost of many brave men and women. But if Vice Admiral Kim's reinforcements could change that if Mannequin called upon him.
Flashback
Major General Kati Mannequin stood in front of a holographic table showing the tactics as well as a plan for the battle should the Turians retreat.
"So you want the ELS ships to come in should the battle turn south as well as if the Turians retreat?" Williams asked
"Yes and from what I can tell if the ELS can assimilate the Turian ships then any data that VEDA didn't retrieve will be open to us." Kati responded looking at a holographic image of an ELS cruiser class assimilate a Turian dreadnought.
End flashback
Williams shook his head removing the memory since he had other matters to attend to. Basically the Turian were going after the last station but the station held Major General Mannequin so if they took her out then the battle would like fail.
"Are the weapons operational?" Smirnov asked
"Yes sir, they are online and ready to fire." Replied an officer.
"Good give order to get the ground to space weapons to destroy those remaining Turian frigates before they destroy that last cannon."
Outside the city limits were silos while there were also 3 Guyana's which had large particle cannon on their backs which began to target up into the sky. Each cannon charged as the missile silos and Guyana missile containers opened and unleashed a barrage of particle missiles as the cannons opened fire into space at the un-expecting Turians.
Shanxi
Space Battle
Turian frigate
Tonn Actuss had been demoted for commanding a cruiser to a frigate. He was in charge of commanding the 61 frigates assigned to destroy the enemy's orbital defenses to save the fleet and make room for the ground forces.
Now almost all of his ships had been destroyed by the enemy and the stations themselves. He had no idea that the stations possessed anti-ship weapons. They had managed to destroy one of the stations and were almost done with another. He knew there was a chance that he wouldn't succeed in destroying all the stations; he only hoped Desolas could finish his work. Just then the OPC that they had been firing at for what felt like forever almost dropped its shields since a mass accelerator punched through the shields and struck the hull lightly.
"Keep it up men, we just need to cripple the last one and then we can head down to the planet to reinforce our soldiers and lay waste to the enemy. We can still do this." Said Actuss
The crew cheered at their success and their commanders words. Actuss was just about to give out orders to continue on to finish off the station until surface to space missiles hit his remaining 61 frigates. All were either destroyed or crippled except for his.
Actuss was happy the spirits were on his side and had spared his ship from destruction. "Alright men we need…" Tonn Actuss never finished his sentence as a beam from the Ptolemy went right through the frigate and out the bottom causing an explosion taking his crews life.
Glory Wing
CIC
Desolas was not happy in the slightest. The destruction of Actuss and the frigates under his command meant that those space guns were still online and wreaking havoc on his fleet. Since the battle had started he had lost 160 ships; 97 frigates, 53 cruisers and 10 dreadnoughts; most of the damage being done by the enemy's energy weapons and the missiles the enemy used.
The enemy had lost 86 ships bringing their numbers down to 108. But they still had most of their cruisers and that white and blue dreadnought. All of his fighter support were being decimated by the enemy's own mechs especially the ones that turned out to be the fighters that he saw. There has been no contact with the ground forces which made him wonder what was happening.
Turian dreadnought
The dreadnought Commander Vyrnnus commanded was in a critical state. They had multiple hull breaches, their weapons systems had been destroyed thanks to the beams and their shields were down.
Vyrnnus knew if that orbital weapon was not taken out now! They won't win in the fight, he would rather die than let this new upstart of a race humiliate the Turian Hierarchy. He went and made a tough decision. "Men I want you all to evacuate to the escape pods, you are to abandoning ship."
The officers in the CIC were all confused by what the commander said. "Sir what do you mean?" Asked one of the officers.
"If we don't take out that orbital weapon now then this would have been all a waste and I can't ask anyone else to do what I am about to do so as your last orders you will abandon ship while I will plot an FTL jump at the station."
The crew now knew what he meant and they all saluted him and began marching to the escape pods. After he knew his crew were all off the ship, he punched in the numbers and overwrite the safety on the navigational computer until Desolas opened a comm link and asked what was going on "Vyrnnus why have you ordered your crew to abandon ship?" Asked Desolas
"You know what I'm about to do and don't stop me, I must do this for the fleet we need to take out that station if we want to win this." Replied Vyrnnus.
Desolas didn't try to stop him, he wanted to let Vyrnnus die proudly like a Turian should. Just as Vyrnnus was about to punch in the last number he saw a flash and looked outside to see the 1.5 Gundam aiming its rifle into the bridge where it fired a beam destroying the bridge and killing Vyrnnus instantly while destroying the dreadnought.
Glory Wing
CIC
Desolas was struck with horror as he watched the same mech that Actuss encountered destroy Vyrnnus's dreadnought with just a single shot before it flew off to catch up with the other mechs and start destroying the fleet. Desolas knew that the decision he was about to make would most likely ruin his military career, but he had no choice.
"I can't believe me, General Desolas Arterius of the Turian Hierarchy defeated." He thought to himself
"Order the fleet to retreat back through the relay." He said sounding like he could barely force himself to say those words.
"Sir?" One of his officers looked at him questionably
"YOU HEARD WHAT I SAID. The battle is lost, our ships are to damaged and won't be able to take much more punishment. We're out of disruptor torpedoes and have no reinforcements available. Order the retreat NOW."
"Yes sir!"
Orbital station
Major General Mannequin was both happy and sad. Happy with her fleet's performance battling a numerically superior force, and she was sad about the many men and woman that had died. She lost 90 of her 194 ships; 25 Virginia's, 23 Volga's, 32 Baikal's and 10 Nile's while some of the other ships were crippled and disabled which she was grateful for. watched as the remaining Turian ships were being taken out by the remaining ESF ships and mobile suits while the Gundams assisted along with the OPC. But Shepard found out that a Turian commander was about to commit a suicide run on the OPC and destroyed the dreadnought just in time and the only problem left were the remaining Turian ships. The Turians had ran out of disruptor torpedoes which gave the ESF a chance to overwhelm their own ships which destroyed three more dreadnoughts, seven cruisers, and eleven frigates.
"Major General the enemy has just given the signal to retreat." Francis says crossing his arms.
Mannequin looks at the AI and says "Did they now? Well I guess it's time to take the gloves off. Have all ships and mobile suits move out of the Orbital Particle Cannons maximum range and then fire it at full power and when it is done we shall call in the ELS."
Francis nods his head and vanishes.
Space Battle
Desolas ordered his surviving ships to retreat back through the relay. Yet no more than thirty seconds after the order had been given the ESF fleet moved around forming a really large hole (Author note: NOT THAT KIND OF HOLE YOU PERVERTED IDIOTS!) where if one would look close enough they could see the lens glowing slightly before a really large beam fires out and flies towards the Turian fleet which were dumb enough to get close together where the beam took out all but 3 dreadnoughts, 9 cruisers, and 13 frigates with some of the ships including the Glory Wing being damaged.
One lone frigate managed to make an FTL jump back to the relay in the system, likely heading back to Turian space.
When the ship vanished through the relay a familiar humming sound is heard before cruiser-class ELS arrive and move towards the Turian ships. The Turians freaked out at the sight of the ELS and tried to shoot them but the bullets didn't do any damage because they were living metal before one by one the ELS crashed into the Turian vessels and started assimilating them.
Glory Wing
CIC
Desolas stood in place with blood flowing down his face. He was frozen in place when he saw the metal creatures smash into his ships before one crashed into his ship and his entire ship started to morph around. He turned looking at the inside of the CIC, he could hear his men scream in both fear and pain as metal started to cover them before they were completely transformed into metal.
"This cannot be." Desolas muttered before he felt pain and looked down to see he too was getting transformed into metal.
"This cannot be reality." Desolas said again before he was consumed by darkness when he was assimilated by the ELS.
Damaged Turian frigate
On board the Captain gave a sigh of relief, they had escaped with their lives. One of the officers walked up to him.
"Sir our engineers report that our systems are too badly damaged to travel all the way back to Turian space." He reported. The officer believed the Captain wanted to head back and ask the Hierarchy for more reinforcements. The Captain however had other ideas.
"Will we be able to make to back to the Citadel?" He asked. The Officer was a bit confused by this question.
"Yes we should barely be able to but if we show up in this state…" The Captain cut him off.
"Good get us to the Citadel.
The officer protested "But the Council will want to know how our ship got damaged and will find out about the attack.
The Captain wasn't having any of it. "The battle is lost and we were lucky enough to escape alive thank the spirits, we are returning to the Citadel to warn the Council of the biggest mistake we have ever made." The officer just walked off at that and the frigate entered the mass relay.
The Captain knew it would take about three days to reach the Citadel. He just hoped nothing happened in that length of time.
Shanxi
Nile-class cruiser
Steadfast
The battle was over; the Turians fleet had been decimated. All ESF ships started to move into position beside and surviving Turian vessels. They would send boarding parties to capture the crews. All surviving Virginia carriers started to search for escape pods while ELS were assimilating destroyed Turian ships in order to understand how much damage a Turian ship could take.
Lieutenant General Kim arrived just five minutes after the battle to assist in repairing Shanxi's defenses.
Lieutenant General Kim was looking at a data pad reading the aftermath of the battle. Major General Mannequin had lost 32 Virginia-class, 26 Baikal class, 18 Volga class, and 10 Nile class which was a total of 86 ships while the number of mobile suits lost were 296. It was thanks to the fact that the Turians used fighters instead of mobile suits that gave them an advantage in dogfights. Everything went as planned and now they just need the go ahead signal to attack.
"Alexander, have we heard from the President yet?" Kim asked the AI of the Steadfast.
The AI Alexander looked like a young man with shoulder length hair wearing the old HRL uniform.
"Yes Lieutenant General, he said that it was time to show the Turians that Humanity isn't some weak child that they could bully around. We are to head through the relay to a Turian colony called Gothis. He's also sending the necessary ships to rebuilding the damaged ships, since we lent most of it to Major General Mannequin. Weill also have parts of the fleet her along with the Ptolemy at our command since they are relatively untouched. They'll come in as soon as we and the Gundams claim the system."
"Good, we'll move out as soon as our new ships arrive." Lieutenant General Kim said as the mobile suits returned to their ship to get prepared for the ESF retaliation.