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Post by Danny on Jan 8, 2010 3:02:53 GMT -5
With Zarra's random key pressing, the gun suddenly came to life. The barrel of the weapon slowly began to rotate and the guns base maneuvered the weapon around to face the space battle above. This process was surprisingly loud despite it being a very advanced piece of technology, but then silence once the gun was in position. A hush was over the Elites standing before the gun, it's sudden demonstration had taken them surprise. For those standing close to it's control panel, the keypad had dimmed but one button flashed continually. An engineer, that had studied every button Zarra had randomly pushed, put his finger above the flashing button for a moment, but then hovered his button over a set of dimmed buttons. He had realised the gun had automatically locked onto the Sangheili fleet, and he had a good idea that that flashing button did. He pressed three buttons into the keypad and the gun slowly changed it's position to the Rifter fleet. "We have manual control," he said, before placing his finger over the flashing button once more. He gulped, and silently prayed that he had indeed positioned the gun towards the Rifters. "Do it," Commander Ulag ordered from the Rifter control room. Anau took a step back and watched the engineer press the button.
Nothing. The engineer opened his eyes and looked at the control panel, "What? No!" Anau leaped off the guns platform and analysed the weapon; pressing that button had appeared to have done nothing. The barrels of the weapon continued to rotate, and the sound of the weapon humming also remained. As did the white light pulsating up and down the weapon. 'Wait.' A perfectly straight beam of yellow light unexpectedly roared out of the gun. It's power was obviously immense, Anau couldn't even hear himself howl over the sound of the weapons raw energy beam.
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"The enemy is attempting to make this a close quarters fight; don't let them!" Ioannes ordered from his flagship, "And tell those Dreadnoughts to fire again!" Two Rifter dreadnoughts supported by fighters had taken the front of the fleet. One began to charge it's whip-like weapon, the second shortly afterwards. The first fired, sending it's beam towards the Elites. This time several smaller targets had been chosen, three cruisers suffered the wrath of the Rifters this time. The whip cracked down on the three ships, slicing one diagonally across it's hull, followed by it's destruction. At this point the beam had lost most of it's energy, but not enough to render it useless. It violently struck the other two Battle Cruisers, cutting them both in a sporadic pattern, destroying one and disabling the other.
The first dreadnought began charging its weapon again, while the second prepared to fire. The ship had longer to charge; this attack would be devastating. Just as the ship prepared to fire, the beam from the moon suddenly impacted with the second dreadnought. It wasn't long before the beam fired clean through the dreadnought, causing a reaction in the ships engine cores and weapon control. The ship exploded, sending debris in all directions. The explosion was massive; big enough to send the first dreadnought out of formation... clean in half. "What..... the hell was that!" Ioannes roared with all his might, "Someone explain to me... what the hell that was!" his face quickly went red with rage. Or maybe it was embarrassment. "T-t-t trying to contact Luna outpost..." stuttered a nervous officer. "Don't bother! Wipe it away! Destroy the whole f**king moon!"
Ioannes stood on the bridge of his flagship and continued to yell at the men under him, blaming them for this as the yellow beam from the moon continued to reek havoc through their fleet.
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Post by Ares on Jan 8, 2010 9:12:56 GMT -5
Zaku's eyes goggled as the Luna outpost's gun fired... He had no idea it was that, well, powerful. One of the two dreadnaughts has been totally detroyed, and another was blown completely out of formation. Zaku saw his chance....
"Quick! Get in the holes in their formation! Now!"
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The Sangheili Battle Fleet had lost one Assault Carrier and three Battle Ships to the energy whip weapon. Two more Battle Ships had been simply blow apart by Rifter missiles.... But now, the were practically next to the fleet, right up in the Rifter's faces. The lead Asasult Carrier barreled straight for the Flagship, alongside two Dreadnaughts. The other two remaining Assault Carriers split, each attempting to squeeze into the enemy fleet.... One of the two misjudged their trajectory, though, and the top of the Carrier skimmed on the underside of a Dreadnaught- the very top four levels of the eleven-layer ship were ripped off with a horrible shriek. But the ship's crew, its command nucleus, was still several floors below, so they could still control the ship.
The Radiant Jewel was hovering over the Flagship when the Rifter ship fired its next wave of missiles. The Rifter weapons went straight through the Assault Carrier's shields, dmaaging many systems completely beyond repair- intra-ship communications, gravity lift control, and the cameras that viewed the outside battle.
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Zaku shouted, "Get those back online- no! Just focus on charging the Plasma beam! We'll smite them from-" but then, the ship rocked. The lights flickered, and Zaku stumbled when it shook. The Zealot looked around. "Stats Report!!"
A Sangheili Major, quite nervous from the battle said distractedly, "The Luna outpost's gun fired a little to close to us. It damaged the already-damaged systems beyond any repair."
Zaku blinked. This sucked. He turned to the only working communications- the intership communications. He quickly contacted the the other two Assault Carriers' Ship Masters. "'Errow, 'Qeurem! Get out of the Rifter fleet! Get all of our ships above the fleet- not in it! If we stay here, we're all dead!"
He cut off communications, and turned to one of the weapons officers. "Status report on the Plasma beam."
"Sixty percent and charging."
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Post by Spec-Opp Spartan on Jan 8, 2010 11:52:04 GMT -5
Katar looked at the enemey fleet. " well this may be a first glassing an enemey fleet" said Katar to Zaku. He knew that energy projectors (OOC or as you call it "plasma beam" ) had been used on enemey ships before but not like this raining down full fury on a ship. Despite the fact they had the gun on the surface of " Lu-na" it could easily be taken out by a missle or bomb unless the thing had sheilds. " if you can get communications to the surface tell them to take out the other dreadnaught and then they may fire at will" said Katar to Zaku.
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Post by IndigoWolf on Jan 8, 2010 16:02:56 GMT -5
Zarra cheered watching the Rifter ships burn, then stopped, seeing one of the gun's beams pass dangerously close to one of the Sangheili ships. "Careful! Hold you're fire for a moment," she ordered, "We almost hit one of our own. Keep an eye on our ships, make sure they're out of our line of fire."
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Post by Danny on Jan 8, 2010 19:35:44 GMT -5
"Hahaha!" Ioannes cackled as the Luna Gun shut down, and although an enemy cruiser sat comfortably above his Flagship, "Open up the defence turrets, destroy that ship above us!" "Sir, I recommend evasion," "Destroy it! Fire the guns!" Ioannes roared as he began pacing around the bridge, "Have the fleet pursue the escaping ships; they wanted a close quarters fight, they're going to get one!"
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"The Rifter fleet is trying to conceal itself in ours, they are running from their own weapon! We must take advantage of this and strike straggling Rifter ships!" Commander Ulag yelled from the control room, "Fire again, target the rear of their fleet, and quickly!" The gun charged once again and another beam of yellow light fired towards the fleet.
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Heavily armed Rifter support ships were destroyed on impact; the beam igniting their weapon supply. Ioannes roared with rage and banged his fist on a keypad when the weapon came back online. "Destroy it!" With that, two Rifter bombers dived out of formation and roared towards Earths moon.
Ulag paced around the control room as the weapon continued to fire. More data had been pulled from the Rifter computers; it seemed a third of the Rifter fleet was pursuing the Humans. He knew they wouldn't stand a chance. This battle would have to be ended quickly. Maybe, just maybe, they could catch up with the Humans.
He took in a deep breath as he watched the weapon continue to tear through the Rifter fleet. That breath was cut short when two black dots swooped down from the sky to the surface of the moon. He took a step back and pointed in their direction. "What is it, Commander?" a tech officer asked. The Commander stayed silent and waited for his fears to be confirmed, he prayed his eyes were playing tricks on him. Then the bombers appeared. "Incoming!" he yelled. Anau immediately placed his helmet on and looked to the sky. He couldn't see the incoming. In the time he spent looking for the enemy, he could have ducked for cover. The bombers roared over head and dropped their payload on the site. The gun exploded in a flash as did the control room. The bombing run destroyed the gun and sent Elites flying in all directions.
Anau was hurled back by an explosion, spinning in the air before crashing down on the moons surface and eventually rolling to a stop.
(OoC: Ares, God-mod the crap outta this space battle, the am is for the Elites to win)
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Post by Spec-Opp Spartan on Jan 12, 2010 19:48:56 GMT -5
(OOC If Ares won't then I sure the hell will and Oh Danny can the Rifters get the taste of a nuke...that is in The Longsword 777's dude took to the elite ship ) "glass them into tiny particles full power" growled Katar to the fleet he would not lose. Not caring whether Zaku cared if he controled the ships crew he ordered the technical officers to divert any uneeded power to the weapons systems. " Shipmisstress divert any uneeded power to your weapons and fire all the lines, torpedos whatever at them and launch all the Seraphs under your command" said Katar. He then turned on "Fleet Comn" " all ships deploy all Serpahs" said Katar. **** The hangers of all the Sangheli ships rained Seraphs that charged towards the Rifter fleet raining bombs and plasma missles at the Rifter ships. *** The combined fury of two energy projectors merged together as they cut through the Rifters ship hull like a hammer. Once that ship was gone it proceeded to move through poor Rifter ship. *** Katar took a moment to look at the gun at Luna and wonder why it wasn't firing. The problem was that it was gone. "send a Phantom to search for any survivors..and also prepared boarding parties arm them with bombs and any other explosive devices...if they can commander the ships to ram or even open fire on their own ships" said Katar. " it shall be done sir" said a Major as he ran to the hanger. A Phantom launched and flew towards Luna in hope it would find survivors of whatever took the gun out. *** Some Seraphs turned back to esort the boarding craft to board the enemey ships with antimatter bombs which were used to great effect against Earth before. (OOC pretty sure that is what The Covenant bomb is) *** Moments later explosions rocked throughout the Rifter Fleet as the bombs went off. The boarding craft were not done yet.
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Post by Spartan-777 on Jan 12, 2010 19:54:18 GMT -5
(OoC: I've been gone too long. I don't know what's going on. You guys can use my nuke.)
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Post by Spec-Opp Spartan on Jan 12, 2010 20:04:27 GMT -5
(OOC I just need Danny to give me the keys )
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Post by Ares on Jan 12, 2010 21:23:48 GMT -5
Zaku was somewhat taken aback as Katar started bossing his crew around. It was to be expected, of course, because Councilors outranked Ship Masters, but it surprised 'Vudem all the same. After Katar finished his volley of orders, Zaku cooly cut in. "Amplify power from the engings into the Energy Projectors- glass the fleet!" --------------------------- The one Assault Carrier other than the Radiant Jewel rammed foward. Its Energy Projectors were more heated that Zaku's ship was, and it passsed directly over one of the Rifter Dreadnaughts. The plasma beam cut down, ripping through the dreadnaught's shields and hull, and causing an immense explosion that sent the Assault Carrier in another direction, and four smaller Rifter ships into Nirvana. Fifty of the one hundred and fifteen remaining Covenant Cruisers moved over the still-larger Rifter fleet. Plasma mortars extended from the hull, and missile tubes emerged on the underbelly. In under forty seconds, the entire fleet had emptied their weapons down onto the Rifter's fleet. No longer did the Rifters retain numerical superiority. ------------------------ The Radiant Jewel's energy projector glowed bright blue. Plasma, held in by the gravity manipulators, pooled up as pure energy rocked around the blue sphere. It grew, growing to half the size of the Assault Carrier, and then stopped. For several seconds it was silent- still. Then, it fired downward. The explosive ball of liquid energy rocketed down, ripping through space. The Energy Beam, usually reserved for melting a planet into glass, crashed down upon the Rifter flagship. The mid-area of the enormous flagship that dwarfed the Assault Carrier was struck by the weapon. Destruction was more than imminent- it would likely be instantaneous. ((OOC/ Danny: Didn't know if you wanted me to destroy your Admiral, so I'll leave a slight chance of escape for him. ^.^))
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Post by IndigoWolf on Jan 12, 2010 23:32:57 GMT -5
Zarra woke lying on her back on the dusty lunar ground, surrounded by the burning wreckage of the gun. She didn't move for several minutes, first waiting for her ears to stop ringing so she could think, then trying to gauge how badly she was hurt. After determining that she was able to move, it took another minute to work up the strength to roll to her side and crawl away from the uncomfortably close, raging fires. As soon as she was a safe distance away she let herself fall to the ground again. Everything hurt too much for her to identify exactly what was injured, but she still had all her limbs and none of her new wounds were bleeding too badly. She decided that what she should do was seach for more survivors and help them if she could, but first she needed to rest for a few more minutes.
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Post by Danny on Jan 13, 2010 1:02:44 GMT -5
(OoC: Specs, do it. Ares, he must live ) "General!" a crewman cried as the ship rocked and alarms screeched. For once in the battle, Ioannes was able to keep his composure. "Order the retreat, we'll fall back to the rendezvous," Ioannes ordered. "Yes sir," the relieved crewman replied, scrambling for a radio. With the flag ship heavily damaged and it's defense turrets nearly running dry, it, and the last of the Rifter fleet, blasted and rammed it's way out of the Elites fleet. The flagship openned a Slip Space portal for itself and disappeared into the darkness of space, leaving the Rifter fleet behind to make their own escape. Meanwhile, it was Anau's turn to wake. He gazed up at the flickering shield covering the outpost; it wouldn't be long before it failed. He managed to sit himself up to reveal the burning wreckage of the gun and a scene of Elites walking around in a daze. He stood and tried to shake off the explosion, but his legs felt like jelly. He stumbled forward and placed on a helmet he assumed was his, then began assisting Elites that had fallen.
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Post by Spec-Opp Spartan on Jan 13, 2010 20:30:57 GMT -5
"hey elites I have a suggestions" said Otto. Katar looked at the Demon Commander. "what human" said Katar. " we give em a taste of humanity...some nukes I took them and sent a crew to harvest all of our nuclear arms but no I won't be using them all the two I placed in the Longsword I took here and you won't lose a pilot as I can remotely pilot it" said Otto. " do it human" said Katar but give us a chance to pull back. "alright I will get things ready" said Otto as he left the bridge and headed to the hanger.
(OOC Ares have your last fun and then its NUKE time)
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Post by Ares on Jan 14, 2010 8:06:58 GMT -5
Zaku grinned. The flagship had fled, and the Demon wanted to make a daredevil attack with nothing less than.... a nuke. The Rifter fleet was divided- the ships that tried to flee were struck down by the concentrated fleet of the Sangheili battleships above, and the rest did the most stupid thing possible. Clump together tightly. In the perfect place for a nuke to be dropped. For now, though, the Sangheili battlefleet fired on them from above and from the sides, keeping them pinned in.
Zaku commanded his helmsman to take him into the most dangerous zone- they'd get close to the fleet, then throw out the nuke into the tightly-packed Rifters.
He also noted that the Luna outpost, already damaged, was going to lose its shield soon- and that would kill everyone down there. The golden-armored zealot ordered three Phantoms to be sent down to the planetary assault cannon to evacuate the team if necessary.
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Post by IndigoWolf on Jan 14, 2010 16:18:46 GMT -5
Zarra woke a second time to see another Elite kneeling over her. "I found a live one," the Elite called to someone Zarra couldn't see, then he turned back to her, "Do you think you can walk?" Zarra nodded and the other Elite started to help her up. "Thank you," Zarra mumbled, "I used to be a medic, I could help." The other Elite chuckled, "I think you should take it easy for a while yet; it looks like you were a little too close to the gun when it was hit."
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Post by Danny on Jan 15, 2010 4:52:59 GMT -5
Anau didn't so much kneel as he did collapse in front of an Elite wounded by the explosion. "What are your injuries, warrior?" he asked, realising he must have taken a blow to the head. His coordination was terrible. "The gun, it blew up," the Elite coughed. Clearly this Elite too was struck on the head. "It did," Anau replied with a chuckle, "Has the explosion damaged you?" "No, I don't think so," the Elite replied. Anau nodded but quickly analysed the Elite for any injuries. None were visible. After helping the Elite to his feet, Anau stumbled back and noticed the control tower in flames. The Special Operations Commander wouldn't have survived that. As he watched the tower burn, he noticed Zakus phantoms on approach.
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