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Colonial Powers, A NRP of colonisation, conquest and diplomacy.

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New Condia
The Terran plasma shield started to dissipate, the beam weapons dispersing the plasma slowly but surely. The red haze began to fade away, the armor of the ship beginning to melt under the beams. The half of the small craft platforms that didn't rotate around to reveal cannons began to move. The first thing to be seen was grey armor, magnetically locked to the platform through metal treads. As the platforms continued to rotate, small two-barrel turrets could be seen on top of the rectangular platform, jagged angles giving the objects a menacing appearance. A radio message was transmitted to them, showing that they weren't fully linked to the ship.

"All armor, fire at maximum output!"

Metal slugs flew towards the enemy flagship, some of them were tiny and obviously meant to fight infantry, others were armor-piercing, and yet more were explosive. The weapons definitely weren't built for space combat. In an odd move, the Terrans suddenly switched to physical ammo in all their other weapons. Instead of the bright blue plasma bolts, tungsten slugs flew out of the railguns. It looked as if they had simply run out of ammo, and when the engines stopped glowing, it became obvious that they were running out of plasma. Since their shields used plasma, the battle was already lost for them. Still, they kept firing with every single weapon they had, choosing honor over their own lives. A message was sent to the alien flagship, surely last words.

"You can speak of how you are superior, you can speak of how we will fall to you. But we've heard those words before, spoken by Terrans to Terrans, many years ago. We've heard those words hundred upon hundreds of times, and every time someone said them, their enemies won. When someone claims superiority, says they will destroy us, we know that they are wrong. Terrans are stubborn, sentimental, superstitious, and so many other things. Those flaws are our strength, they make us who we are. They make others cringe at what we are willing to do, they make others look upon us in confusion and call us fools, they make others think that they can break our morale with threats. I promise, on behalf of my entire species, that you will regret crossing Terra!"

Suddenly, the red haze began thicker than every before. It began to turn purple as it obscured the ship's hull, and in a few short seconds, the entire ship was covered up by the shield. The shield moved to let the engines fire, and they flared up in orange fire instead of the soft glow of plasma. The ship accelerated faster than ever before, barreling down towards the flagship. Escape pods flew through quickly opening and closing holes in the shield, as if the crew was evacuating. They weren't.

The escape pods rammed into the flagship, causing massive explosions from the antimatter that had been stuffed inside. Still, the Normady rocketed towards the flagship, the purple haze localizing at the ship's bow into a lance of plasma. The Normandy's plasma shield smashed into the enemy ship, the plasma ripping into the shields and hull alike. The Terrans drove the lance deeper into the flagship, and suddenly it launched out in all directions, ripping through the hull of the ship and cutting it clean in half. The plasma extrusions tore through the ends of the two halves, tearing them up into debris. The Normandy flew right into the middle of the two halves, and pulled back the plasma into the shield generator, leaving the red haze. Interestingly, the red haze was strengthened, the tanks adding their own shield power to that of the ship.

Parked between the two halves, the Normandy opened fire with it's plasma weaponry. The blue bolts of argon savagely bit into the insides of the flagship, vaporizing the hull and interior indiscriminately. It was a truly insane strategy, and after it, the ship likely wouldn't have much of a weapons system left. Still, the Terrans carried through with it, refusing to let the enemy flagship get away.

The rest of the fleet moved to assist the Sazkarjhit and Iscandarians, moving to flank the enemy. Long-range missiles were fired, once again directed at the engines to decrease mobility. The fighters and bombers joined the allied fighter wings, filling the gaps in their squadrons and transferring their command channels to work with the allied commanders. With all of the enemy attempts to slow down their combat computers, they switched to manual. The moment they switched, the Terran fighters began to perform unorthodox that would never be programmed into the combat computer. Banking as if in atmosphere, high-g turns, and turning around entirely to shoot down pursuing craft. Realizing that the Iscandarian forces were using brute force tactics against the Hivemind, one of the two surviving dreadnoughts sent a message to their forces.

"Listen! You must focus on taking down their shields! I need you to send your small craft to take out their weapons emplacements, keep them away from the ships though! If your fighters are equipped with missiles like ours, then use them against the emplacements. If you don;t have any precise weaponry, then still keep away! A turret isn't worth ten lives! If at all possible, the aft weapons should be taken out, it'll give flanking maneuvers a much lower casualty rate! I know taking orders from a lower species must be demeaning to you, but we know how to fight! If you don't listen, you'll all die!"

Sol, Iscandrians
"I'll gather the Wings of Gliese, we'll meet at our base. Also... I recognize that Frigate, is Emily here too?"

Icarus, Ocean of Jul
A small door on the Terran ship opened, about two meters above the water. About five or so humans stepped out, wearing large backpacks. In an unexpected move, they jumped right into the air. However, instead of slashing into the water, they floated slowly down towards one of the speedboats. Their backpacks caused a gravity lens distortion just like the two giant rings on their ship, obviously some sort of antigravity harness. They lanced on the speedboat delicately, and took off the backpacks. They released them into the air, and they floated off towards the top of the ship. It was hard to see, but there was a team up there collecting them and bringing them back inside.

"Thank you for picking us up." Said a man dressed in a white suit with gold trim, bowing politely. "You have no idea how glad I am that we can translate each other's languages, our non-verbal contact protocol is extremely awkward."

Sol, Kuiper Belt, Draconian Fleet Location
A message was recieved by the Draconians, coming directly from the planet marked as "Terra" on the star charts.

"We have not encountered vessels similar to your own before, as such, we will assume that you are a new contact. We are the United Terran Federation, it is our sincere hope that our two peoples can coexist together without military conflict. If you have any specific first contact protocols, we are happy to accommodate for them."

((Sorry for no Nouvelle, I'm just glad I managed to get this done today))

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MrFoxNews said
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Don't worry, OOC thread, it's all over. it's okay, nobody can hurt you anymore.\

Also, REALLY IMPORTANT SHIT:

THERE IS NOW AN OFFICIAL RULE NOW THAT HEATED ARGUMENTS ARE TO BE TAKEN TO PM. BREAKING THIS RULE WILL RESULT IN CRUEL AND UNUSUAL PUNISHMENT.

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darkwolf687 said Are you including the terrans? They literally showed up, got caught in a self destruct, fired off a salvoe and promptly buggered off!

If you read my post, you would know that they actually utilized the fact that warp drives don't actually make the ship move, and jumped in behind your fleet and started firing. I mean, losses were around 100-200 ships in the initial assault, but there's more than the Normandy, which you assumed stayed... because reasons I guess?

Also, there are still hundreds of ships. Fighting 56. The hundreds win there. Since they aren't, you're retconning that to 200 ships, all cruisers, not OP. This is not a request, it's an order.
GIVE YOURSELF MORE SHIPS.

(Also, the Draconians are here for a reason that I myself approved. They're not here to be dicks to Duck. I can't tell you exactly why they're here, but it's going to be relevant to plot. I promise you that.)

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darkwolf687 said
A decade? So our ships take a decade to reach each other now?Also, just realised, Wilson you lucky bastard. In the UK, physics is mandatory :(

No, our ships have FTL. Giant asteroids don't. Even with antimatter engines, it'd take forever to bring an asteroid up to 70% of light speed. I like consistent universes, and an asteroid from another star system being brought into a battle halfway through to fix a somewhat unexpected problem is not consistent. To be perfectly honest, bringing in an asteroid at all is unrealistic unless you just bring them standard in all your fleets. To be honest, you really should have dropped the shield for a moment with the siege engine, then popped a literal ton of antimatter in there. That'd get rid of the problem.

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darkwolf687 said
Well, its not accelerating, because it was moving faster a moment ago. In space, if you give something a push it will keep going until it is affected by other objects gravity or collides, so if you foumnd a great strip of nothingness, you could potentially accelerate the object to light speed without needing to worry about resistance during acceleration, thus taking less energy. Technically, the asteroid is decelerating, extremely fast, rather than accelerating fast, though obvioisly its at a speed that would realistically crush it (But then, FTL would realisticallty destroy ships too.) but its rather harsh to fly in at literally the speed of light and vaporise... well, everythingAnd let me be clear, this object is alien to New Condria's system. Its been brought from outside and is now decelerating. So no Duck, it doesnt matter than your moon is half the size... well, actually it does because it means less gravity on the asteroid than in Sol systemI'm going to be quite honest here, I dont defend the 70% asteroid myself. Its been a while since I passed GCSE physics. I defer to more informed judgement on what the speed of the asteroid should actually be

Wait, so you already had this asteroid coming in from presumably another solar system? This attack was planned for about a decade or so then, wouldn't we have realized a MOON flying towards the system?

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New Condia
"All vessels retreat, pattern Echo 001-C!"

The Terran fleet immediately began to fire engines, turning around and negating their velocity. The reason was obvious; if they were planning to jump away, then their velocity would have to be changed depending on their target location. If the enemy knew the gravity of Earth, then they would wuickly be able to pick up on the fact that that's where they were heading. The warp rings began to distort light around them as the fleet prepared to warp out.

With a flash of light, the Terrans were gone. The telltale gravity lens effects moving away from the system at FTL speeds made that much clear. However, a message came from the retreating ships, most likely a vain attempt to dissuade the enemy from following to their homeworld.

"You will soon meet your fate."

Just after the message was recieved, a barrage of argon plasma smashed into the aft sections of every ship in the combined enemy fleet. Missiles tore into engine pods, an attempt to prevent the enemy from turning to face them. Fighters and bombers savagely tore at the hulls of the enemy vessels, their pilots seemingly having no fear of death. A message was sent to the allied forces using the FTL comms system onboard the Normandy, it seemed that they didn't want to give the enemy a way of intercepting it.

"We'll distract the enemy fleet, just save the planet!"

((Sorry for the tiny post, I'm doing other stuff right now. I had an odd day, which involved me being put in control of the Game Design Club despite not actually have any knowledge of how to code.))

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Apollo26 said
On a lighter note.....are the Terrans ready to party like its......3195!!

The Council will have to take a vote on that, then we'll need a referendum, then of course it'll have to go through the President and Council twice before everyone in the military has to unanimously agree for or against the bill. Then we'll hold a triumvirate with the leaders of the three military branches, before having a party to celebrate the decision in which a consensus must be reached on what food to serve.

Star Wars: The empires finest

*Puts on Imperial uniform*

*Pulls out old roleplaying logs*

*Opens Wookipedia*

*Dusts off pre-Episode III vehicle handbook*

*Covers desk in Star Wars novels*

*Leaves the original trilogy running on repeat in living room*

*Stores food for a month underneath desk*

"I'm ready"

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70% of light speed would tear apart the system in a chain reaction caused by the planet itself turning into plasma.