WilsonTurner

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Uncharted Space: Returning Fire
As the enemy buzzer things close in, armor plates shift, creating momentary, tiny weakspots as they extend out and begin rearranging themselves, moving to cover the breached spot before further damage could be done, or before the enemy swarm could reach the ship. At this point, they had already closed the gap between the two ships, which was more fortunate for the Valkians than for the Etherals. Despite having a hole punched in the ship, the rearranging armor allowed for it to be covered up and contain both air and hull integrity before any major damage was received.

As the incoming swarm approached, the Valkians waited anxiously for the Swarmer turrets to reload. It was a simple process: A grid-like piece with the same amount of open spots as the turret, filled with more missiles, would simply slide them in. The problem was that it all moved rather slowly. Coming to a decision, many of the Engineers and their Hunter guards climbed onto the turret's base, to protect it from whatever was out there so that it could fire its payload, and head back under.

As the two doors above began opening, swinging out to slowly clip onto the surrounding armor, and the base started rising, they could see the strange things flying over. When one, surrounded like blades like the one that had screeched at them some time before, an Engineer, armed with an energy assault rifle, let loose. A burst of nearly transparent blue lasers lashed out, many of the lasers missing, but three of them scoring hits on the strange enemy. It promptly burst, dead or dying, and the rest of the half-dozen Engineers raised their weapons, scared and with the a bad case of the trigger finger. The four Hunters around them had their shoulder-mounted weapons ready, and their blades were out and ready for action. They were all just as scared as the Hunters, and would surely admit it some time later. At the moment, they focused themselves.

The turret rose; the strange creatures attacked and were pushed back. After only half a minute, the Swarmer turret fired, unleashing a swarm that began tearing through the swarm around the Explorer; just as before, little could stand in the path of the swarm of missiles [unless you wish to change it]. As the swarm around the ship cleared, the particle cannons at the front of the ship opened fire, attempting to cut the ship in half.

Inside, the Valkians were panicking. They were doing the usual: closing down airlocks, welding what they could shut, and freezing everything that looked to be in danger of exploding or further damage. Generally, they were all extremely frightened because one ship had punched a hole through their armor- their impenetrable armor. Now, they were spraying the strange ball-thing with dozens of gallons of liquid nitrogen, in their attempt to neutralize it. Many bombs couldn't go off if they were frozen, studies had shown.

From the rear of the Explorer, a small drone appeared, jetting back and away from battle. As it reached the edge of what would be designated as a combat zone, it flashed into warp space, and disappeared.

Some distance away, the Varren fired a second barrage, rolling as it did so, and fired a third with the bottom turrets, trying to combine firepower of the different turrets for maximum damage against the unknown shield.

Planet L-1
On the ground, the forces came to a halt a short distance away, the numbered-as-few units watching with apprehension and a tight anxiety. After some moments, the transport caught up, and deposited its several Hunters before scurrying off. The two GC combats also deposited their own diplomats, and they, too, scurried away, hiding in the underbrush some distance away. Looking around closely, one might see the railgun walkers hidden among a hill and a tree, ready to intervene.

As 5 hunters and two Tinkerers cautiously walked forward, pieces of equipment in Tinkerers' hands, the leading Tinkerer put up a hand, as if to say Stop!

Other than that, besides coming to a halt some [safe] distance away, they just stared, unsure on how to communicate. They looked among themselves, and tried to brainstorm on how to communicate.

The other Tinkerer reached an idea, and pulled out his handgun. Instead of aiming it, however, he held it by its barrel, handgrip towards the unknown peoples. It was an awful gamble, but the Hunters' shoulder-mounted weapons, while not aimed at the unknowns, would still be able to fire faster than the handgun, which required a short charge, and was 'matched' to the specific DNA of the user, for security purposes.

In Orbit of Planet L
The Varren was surprised, and quickly began turning its massive bulk. It fired its engines, fired off a message to Command and the closest Explorer, and began dipping into the gravity well, starting to slingshot itself around the planet, out of reach of any weapons.

Year 2058 (Near-Future Military Scifi RP, maybe with mechs)

Gonna write up a post here pretty quick.

EDIT:
I have a gunship, a fighter, and a dropship, so I think it'll be ok.

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True

Also, Barena, you can't see a warship that's in orbit. Even low orbit, it'd be pretty hard to see. It's hundreds of miles from the surface of a planet to break full atmosphere, and be able to enter a stable orbit for any large satellite or ship.

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Apollo26 said
I mean what would you do if you were surrounded with weapons pointed at you, had he just walked up and waved it would of been a completely different story. Now im not saying literally do that but something other then surround and point weapons would have yielded different results.

AND he tried to blow the shit out of you for being like a turtle when a coyote comes around.

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The first-contact procedure dictates the use of binary to code the DNA of a plant that calms and pacifies of one who ingests. Would this not be a suitable way for saying "We don't mean to kill you"?

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Ah, I suppose you all are right.

How do I meet these vul'krum, anyhow?

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So you're ungodly fast, you can warp in and out quite quickly, you've got good, strong armor, you've got supersmart swarmer missiles...

So what are the cons? Besides them each being loners? Cause you're saying that you're really fast, you're hard to kill, you're hard to avoid getting killed by, and you can FTL in and out quickly. What balances it? Making them each loners is hardly a balancing act. They are smaller craft, I assume, and can be have a crew trained and ready to operate very very quickly.

Really, if something threatens, then your peoples could just band together out of fear for extinction, and it'd be impossible to beat you. Not without some really powerful laser weapons or other instantaneous types to disable before you can run away.

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I'm not even going to respond to your stupid.

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duck55223 said
For what reason?A dead Captain?There's really no reason for any war to occur at this point. The EU is willing to do peace.

What
The
Shit

Oh my god
You're bombing, shooting down, and tearing apart Septonian units, and then you just go like "Well we're willing to do peace, so we don't have to have a war."

YOU FIRED THE FIRST GODDAMN SHOT, it's up to the OTHER side if they wanna peace or not.

Do you know how insanely arrogant you sound?

Lke
level: 1000

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LaXnyd said
Mmm... dat changing of your factions tech specifically to counter others...Apollo, will you be posting in response to the Alarai?

Indeed, but not yet. It'll be thought about since the Etherals used hordes of Sisters and all them. Shields will come later, maybe after a skirmish with Duck or something.