Disclaimer: I do not own Robotech or Macross!
Well this is basically not really a ficlet but a combination of a few of my Omakes that are all related together, those who have read Wings of a New Dawn may recognize a few of them while others have taken from some of my other stories. This is the first time they are put together. Enjoy!
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Robotech: Shadow War
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In the offices of Lieutenant General Gunther Reinhardt the acting overall Supreme Commander of the entire Robotech Expedition Force, or rather what remained of the Expedition anyways after the Invid and later the Haydonites got through with it. The mentioned man sat behind his large desk talking with another man who stood in front of his desk. This man happened to be Captain Vince Grant former commander of the Shimakaze Class Battlecruiser Icarus now currently the new commander of the Ark Angel a former colony ship.
"The refit of the Ark Angel is going ahead as planned and your suggestions have been taking into count. However I don't think we will have the time to equip her with a Reflex Cannon like you have suggested, but even then the idea to turn her into a combined support ship and carrier is a good move. This is something we can do with the limited facilities we have here at ALuCE. If I could I would send her back to Space Station Freedom or the Karbarra Shipyards but that would take months. Time we don't have," General Reinhardt was saying the larger man standing in front of him.
"Thank you General. I know that we are loading up half of the Fleet's remaining Protoculture supply onto the Ark Angel for our search of the SDF-3. I do have a suggestion for you sir to help keep your Protoculture use down yet still allow you to have some patrols," Captain Grant mentioned taking the data pad he had under one arm. The general looked up at his senior captain with a frown but waved him on.
"When I was searching for some ships to join the Ark Angel on this mission I found the ship register for the Tranquility Reserve Depot. On it I saw that there are several of the old Oberth Class Destroyers still at the depot," the captain said sitting down the pad onto the general's desk making the older man look up at the Captain in surprise. Grant mentioned the other main lunar base of the REF which was used as a mothball yard where they placed their old ships when they don't need them anymore.
"The Oberth Class are relics Captain and do not sport fold drives. What do you expect me to use them for?" he asked with a frown and a shake of his head. Captain Grant simply chuckled before bringing up something on the pad on the desk and turning it so the general could read it.
"These old Oberth Class ships were built before the introduction of Protoculture powered Reactors sir. They are powered by Fusion Nuclear Reactors," the Captain replied with a small grin on his face. General Reinhardt looked up at him with his jaw hanging open in shock for he didn't know that.
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Onboard the large ship that is the refitted Colony Ship Ark Angel Lieutenant Commander Scott Bernard strolled through the corridors of the massive ship. The Ark Angel like its sisters had been built during the early days of the Expedition when it became apparent that it would take longer than it had been planned. These ships where to act as literal Arks for the thousands of civilian volunteers and support staff during the years searching for Tirol. These idea would be based on the idea of Macross City being onboard the SDF-1 during the First Robotech War. Other Ark Ships would be used as real colony ships, colonizing several planets that the REF found. Many current members of the expedition had been born and had lived onboard one of the Ark Colony Ships, Scott included though for him he had been born on the Ark Royal another of the Ark Class ships. After the Expedition found Tirol, the Arks unloaded their colonists onto the planet to help rebuild and settle on the planet alongside rescued Tirolians. The Arks would then be retired till the time that the crew of the Icarus and personal from Space Station Liberty reactivated the Ark Angel. After a quick refit of the ship at Moon Base ALUCE it was ready for its mission to search for the missing SDF-3 Pioneer and Admiral Hunter.
Scott had just finished talking with Captain Grant and the other senior officers, and was now looking forward to some needed relaxation as he headed for the quarters assigned to him along with his human form Invid lover Ariel. However as he entered the spacious quarters he was surprised and a little suspicious to see Ariel standing in the middle of the quarters grinning at him for some reason.
"Alright Ariel what is going on?" Scott asked once again cursing Doctor Nichols for explaining the human concept of pranks to her, Ariel however just continuing grinning before folding her arms over her chest as she stepped forward.
"Well Captain Grant mentioned that thanks to the Battle of Reflex Point and the loss of Space Station Liberty they were little short on experienced personal. So I decided to enlist some reinforcements for the mission," Ariel replied with that same grin on her face. Scott looked confused for a brief moment at her words before suddenly he got what she had done.
"You didn't…OFFF…" he started to say but was cut off as a human missile impacted his torso sending him to the ground to the sound of laughter, very familiar laughter. Scott after catching his breath looked down at his chest to see the beaming face of Annie Labelle.
"I should have known. Hi Mint," he said with a small smile before looking up to see the rest of his friends standing behind Ariel all grinning down at him.
"Hello to you as well buster," Annie mentioned with a shake of her head. Scott just laughed and managed to escape her grasp enough to get off the ground to engage hugs with the rest of the group. There was Rand, Rook Bartley, Jim "Lunk" Austin, Lancer Belmont, and finally the fellow human form Invid Sera, the group he had led to Reflex Point. He beamed at them all before turning to look at the smug looking Ariel.
"Well talk about reinforcements!"
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Shaking his head Lieutenant General Gunther Reinhardt recovered from his shock at the delivered report that Captain Vince Grant gave him. He had never known that the Oberth Class Destroyers had no protoculture fueled reactors, instead sporting a Nuclear Fusion Reactor, a larger version of which powered the older RDF Destroids.
"This is amazing! I knew that the old Destroids where powered by Nuclear Reactors, but I never even thought the Oberth Class Destroyers could as well. It does make sense I remember that paper written by Doctor Lang back during my time in the Robotech Academy after the First Robotech War that basically said that the only reactor able to power fold drives is a Protoculture fueled Reflex Furnace. I just never really thought to connect that to the old stuff about the First Robotech War era ships, and such. Anyways moving on how many ships are there intact and able to be reactivated?" he asked after several moments. Captain Grant just smiled at his commander's amazement, for he had pretty much the same reaction, before looking down at the pad on the desk before inputting a command.
"The Reserve Depot Ship Registry, has thirty Oberth Class Destroyers listed however only about twenty-five can be totally reactivated in a matter of a few days, the last five have started to be totally scrapped to make room for further ships," Captain Grant reported with a shake of his head, while General Reinhardt was once more surprised by this. Shaking his head the General couldn't believe so many of the Oberth Class ships had survived. He knew that the United Nations Orbital Fleet sported eighty of these ships during the Rain of Death with many of them being totally destroyed by the barrage while in orbit. Thirty being able to survive that was a complete shock. Not to mention them being in a condition to be easily be reactivated.
"That is simply amazing, this is perfect and it eases my mind. Whoever is in charge of that base deserve a metal for keeping in a condition," the General responded after a while of simply shaking his head in wonder. Captain Grant chuckled at this before entering something else into the pad.
"Apparently the Base's commander a Commodore Hector Chavez kept all of the ships at the Depot in pretty good condition, having crews look them over every few years. Apparently there are also around six Tristar Class Battlecruisers, five Battle Class Heavy Cruisers, and thirty some odd Banshee Class Destroyers at the Depot as well," Captain Grant continued on making the General lean back in his seat with sigh. With those Oberth Class Destroyers up and ready he could dedicate them to patrol the solar system while his handful of non-Shadow Device ships would be able to patrol the extra-solar colonies.
"Thank you Captain Grant you have made my entire day with this report, and I shall cut orders immediately to get those ships reactivated ASAP. Now we need to decide how large of a force we should send with you and the Ark Angel to find the SDF-3," the General said now with a small smile on his face having been cheered up massively from this report. Captain Grant only nodded before seating down in one of the chairs in front of the General's desk.
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Anyways this originally had been planned to be a full story but I had other matters I needed to focus on, therefore the project was shelved and basically forgotten. Though I may come back to this story later on. Anyways I hope you all enjoyed this.