[b]Outpost 12, Roman Fleet[/b] “One ship down ma'am!” shouted a Roman Officer as the bridge crew of the Lombardy-Class Battleship watched as the ship exploded from the sheer amount of antimatter contained within. The Roman’s bridge was however unlike other races, they rather center there their bridge in the middle of the ship rather than the back or front of the ship, they also did not have a single window on their ships, preferring to use various cameras embedded in points around the hull to watch over everything. Imperator Aurora “Dawn of Victory” Benerice, captain of the Lombardy-Class which she had yet to name and commander of this particular battle group, shifted in her seat, thinking out her next move. Her nickname had been granted to her do to her early success throughout her career in the Roman Navy, and she had won most of the early battles against the Abh. Like most Romus Humans she had that mediterranean skin that the old Romans had held from living along that sea. Her hair was a deep shape of brown and her eyes glowed green. The uniform she wore was the standard black stretch suit with a badge indicating her rank. Shifting forward as she observed a map of sorts indicating the locations of the enemy ships and her own ships she planned her next move. She would not let these aliens get the best of her. “Remaining Sardinia-Classes! V formation and fire your entire payload of anti-matter missiles, Tyrol-Classes, join the formation and fire at the other ships with maximum charged antiproton streamers! We will deal with the new contact after we finish them off.” she shouted out into the comms, the deepness of her voice almost strange for a female. The ships quickly moved into formation, and carried out the actions as ordered by the Imperator. After she watched the ships finish their orders, she began speaking to her nearby weapons officer. “Normally the particle cannon takes time to charge correct?” asked Aurora. “Yes it does, about 5 minutes to be exact.” responded the officer. Aurora seem displeased at the answer. “What if we dropped all shields and powered down all other weapons? Would that lower the charge time?” inquired Aurora yet again. “Yes it would, about 5 seconds, but that is madness! We would be sitting ducks! 5 seconds is enough for the enemy to do some serious damage!” screamed the officer. “Do not question your superiors. Drop shields and power down all weapons, maximum charge to the particle beam.” spoke Aurora, as the crew did it but very unwillingly. After about 5 seconds she pressed a large blue button. In that moment a giant blue beam streaked across space towards the small outpost. It was massive compared to the size of other beams used by the New Roman Empire, and the beam impacted. [b]New Roman Outer Space, Colony World A-01[/b] The sleepy New Roman colony was one of the two frontier systems of the NRE, the other 18 being considered fully developed core worlds. The A-01 had a few defensives stations as well as a battle group which was currently under the command of Imperator Ettore. The alien ships arrived in the system, as they detected a flurry of comms traffic across the NRE’s network. The battle group positioned The battleship in the group of ships sent a message, encoded in a binary system so as the aliens could translate it easily. “This Imperator Ettore of the New Roman Empire. Please state your intentions and identity.” ((if this is not clear this is in response to the ships you sent out Zadubadabu))