darkwolf687

The Age of Steam

Very well, I hope so as well

From Stardust, To Stardust

Planet N-1

As the container exploded, the ships shields flared to life. For a moment the ship was completely out of sight and then faded back in as the explosion died. There were several fires across the ship and part of the biomass was floating loosely in space, but the shields flared back up and it turned away, moving towards the edge of the system before jumping out.

The Railgun ship ploughed forwards towards the explorer coming dangerous close to the ship and turning sideways to broadside it with missiles and its railgun blast... At this distance the ship was liable to cause damage to its self, but that was obviously the intent; get close enough that the enemy will damage its self when firing at you as well. Given that the explorer was clearly the stronger ship that this old ballistic weapons ship, it was obvious that they were trying to punch a hole in the enemy ship...

As the lasers hit the second ship, it's shields flared to life and it fired it's plasma weaponry. The ship shifted violently as it made emergency manouvers, speeding off to the side to avoid the lasers and targeting the source of the lasers with it's plasma weaponry and firing two plasma torpedoe's at them, attempting to bring them down. Then came the missiles, the first salvo knocked out its already weakened shields, and the second engulfed it in an explosion. When it faded, the ship, several sections destroyed and others heavily damaged, moved slower to the side, but fired another shot, before another beam hit it, sloving off the tip of the ships nose. Quickly, the ship jumped out of system, retreating from combat to avoid the last shots which would almost certainly spell it's doom

The ship on the planet quickly dropped the transport ship and moved away, blasting it with it's plasma weaponry as it retreated and lowered closer to the planets surface... There was a rumbling as several massive, bloated forms came towards the ships and struggled to attach themselves to it's underside. These forms were essentially the spoils of war, put together into a single, massive organism for movement. As they touched the underside, their tentacle appendages wrapped around the ship, and metal rods came out of the ship and through them, attaching it to the ship and extending the shields around them. With the majority of available biomass looted, the remaining forms in turn decomposed themselves to contribute to the construction of these organisms, and then proceeded to latch to the ship... it raised up into the air and turned away, flying away from the explorer and the combat and jumping off into the galaxy.

Outpost A-5:

The worms quickly slipped through the airlock into the ship and began to sweep through it in search of an adequate host...

They found one, a deck mechanic who was working on a terminal. The worm slithered up his back slowly and onto his shoulder, before leaping into his ear and worming it's way through, taking over his mind... The other worms crawled up him and took position on his back, awaiting their turn to take a host...
The mechanic raised, turning his head towards the airlock before spinning again and proceeding off down the hall way, attempting to find his way to the nearest habitation area...

From Stardust, To Stardust

WilsonTurner said
I have neither shields nor EMPs, nor a large military force, and my one ship is combating half a dozen L'Er ships. Making an enemy think they cannot win goes a long way, but that advantage has already been lost since the Explorer just blew up one ship with minimal damage. And, I have reinforcements inbound. The only trouble is that if the L'Er gets to the planet surface, it's over for that planet.Perhaps the attack capabilities are not as effective, or they are easier to destroy, since they can take over an entire planet so easily?EDIT: Also, I await your post.

Well, I'm currently not throwing anti-matter beams at your face and all, if I got them and started throwing ships armed with that at you, lol

Also, your one ship is in combat with two ships atm, not half a dozen (There are only 4 working ships in system at the current time, one of them is intercepting the container a cargo ship dropped, two are engaging the explorer and one is bombarding the city)... I don't exactly have a uniform force to face you with, only what's been stolen from other races and all, and depending on the level of hive you're fighting they might have a handful of ships or several hundred. If I armed a major hive with anti-matter beams and showed up, I think that would be cause for concern muhahaha

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ASTA said
You treat AM missiles like any other missile weaponry: you shoot them down, intercept them with your own missiles or move out of the way. The last option is a little finicky, because like nuclear weapons, AM missiles are AoE weapons.You defeat AM beam weaponry by preventing the anti-particles from making contact with your ship. You might try an electromagnetic field, a large particle barrier that engulfs your spacecraft or a plasma shield. If you can tank particle beams and nuclear weapons, you can weather AM weaponry.Powerful? Yes. Does it allow you to steamroll 'low tier nations'? No.

There is a massive difference between what I have presented as a tactic and what you are interpretting as the tactic

My plan isn't to steamroll such nations, its to convince them the hives can steam roll them so that the L'Er can extort them. And coming in with a weapon which may very well render their entire approach to shipbuilding less effective and thus requiring them to either discover, if undiscovered, or at least implement the technology into their ships, a time consuming task, will contribute massively to such a goal

Simply put, the best victory is one where you don't have to fight.

From Stardust, To Stardust

ASTA said
What low tier nations?

Quite simply put, a nation which has lower technological prowess, military strength and/or economic power when compared to the other nations, or nations which would be relatively easy to defeat compared to the other nations in the galaxy

Given there's a fair amount of anti-matter floating around, the Valkian military could be considered this as they don't use shielding, meaning anti-matter bombs and anti-matter beams would be very, very threatening to them and until such a time they integrate shields into their ships, they would have difficulty stopping such an aggressor (Though even with shielding stopping anti-matter weapons is not an easy task for any one, I would assume)

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Holy shit, the firepower...

Oh I cannot wait to get my grubby tentacles on some of those goodies, I wouldn't need to invade planets, I could just extort low tier nations for people if I could incorporate that level of firepower.

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WilsonTurner said
The Explorer, after firing another beam at the weakened ship, began turning to fire on the other two ships, slowly reaching extreme combat range. Shortly after the Explorer turning on the other ships, the first salvo of missiles reached the first enemy ship. First, one couldn't see anything; then there was just a sudden burst of little yellow engines, all lighting up at once all around the first attacking ship, and easily over two hundred missiles the size of a car's axle slammed into the ship, either piercing or just exploding in great blue flames.And as the Explorer turned to the other approaching ships, the Valkian cargo-ship activated its sublight drive, and disappeared, shortly before enemy ships reached extreme engagement range.As the four large pterodactyl creatures approached, the very few anti-air slash anti-orbit emplacements surrounding the city opened fire. The rounds were more to target any kind of Valkian, and were almost like veritable artillery rounds that exploded into a very large flak-like burst of Swarm missiles, which were like shoe-sized high-explosive missiles. Three emplacements were able to fire on the pterodactyls, and the emplacements each fired two of the rounds at the pterodactyls. As the black-smoke-trailed rounds neared the pterodactyls, each of the rounds exploded, disbursing half a dozen of the small Swarm missiles to take on the pterodactyls. Due to a lack of any war, it is unknown whether the ground-defense actually WORKS; while the Explorers' weaponry has undergone extensive tests, the city defense emplacements were never really tested.

The first ship was annihilated by the attack, what slag was left of it floating uselessly in space. The remnants of a single tentacle on the smallest piece grasped uselessly at the far off explorer. The reactivated ships paused for a moment, before making a short jump forwards at light speed to close the distance. The jump was less than a second, 0:40 to reach light speed 0:55 to brake. Just before it dropped out, one of them fired a large underside mounted railgun, the shot travelling at near light speed towards the explorer... The shot was likely highly inaccurate due to the way it was fired and could easily be off course. The othership plowed towards the explorer, firing plasma based weaponry at it in the hopes of causing damage to the explorers armour...

The other two ships changed course from chasing the cargo ship. One moved towards the container it had dropped while the other approached the city on the planet..

Planet side

The pterodactyl like forms attempted to dodge the incoming shots, but the swarm missiles would be their downfall. Two of them were killed, but a third was able to evade the missiles by diving and traveling along a small rocky canyon, flying under land bridges and finally swooping up and continuing towards the city.

The space ship appeared overhead, and rained down spore forms towards the city below. It turned its weapon systems and fired plasma down at any emplacements it could pick out, all 43 active plasma gun batteries firing at them. It slowly moved down to the planet, and intercepted the transport ship, attempting to grab it with its tentacles. One of the plasma guns changed its target and attempted to knock out the transports engines so that it would be easier to take hold of and board...

From Stardust, To Stardust

Right yeah, I'll get around to it shortly

The Age of Steam

gowia said
People have until friday evening however I am already planning the funeral...this looks like it has gone.

Sigh... Ffs people lol

From Stardust, To Stardust

Outpost A-5 (Revamped)

"The cost of survival is losing your edge..."

The worms slithered off the edge of the drone,quickly darting across the floor, their disgusting bodies sticking to the floor. A small group of them remain on the drone, waiting for their call...

The worms reached the airlock on the side of the ship and slithered over the access panel. One of them chewed the upper corner, and after a short while made a small hole in it, slipping inside. The panel shorted out a few seconds later as the worm managed to destroy some of the wiring, and the worms quickly moved away, their brethren squeezing out of the keypad and dashing out of sight quickly, awaiting for the airlock to be opened and the keypad to be inspected...