Last Stand
Date: 28 May 2003, 3:11 AM
Guess what kids! Its Story time! And a lurker is back...
Sorry! but I had to do that!
Now for a huge ass navy fight!
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The Attack on earth by the Covenant was repelled by the Master Cheif's efforts, allowing what remained of the Human Race to scarbble together its remaining numbers and flee.
A new class of ship was devised and even though it had a pretty hefty price tag, it was quickly put into construction and launched
The first of five super-capital ships, the UEF (United Earth Fleet) outweighed any known ship covenant or human by a substatial amount
Construction lasted 10 years before it was launched. Armed with the latest in laser weaponry and salvaged shielding, it would easily be able to beat down any opposing craft.
Its name was the U.E.F North America Weighing close to 24 million tons and having more weapons then any other craft devied. It also carried Earth's finest troops. Covenant Personal shielding technology was salvaged and then put into mass production.
This gave a Marine a survival rate of roughly an elite. Laser weaponry also tipped the field for the Marines in the field.
Now the fight became a war of attrition and skill.
The North America Was the largest ship and the one to defend Earth
The South America became the Flagship of the Sol 1st fleet
The Europe became the First colony ship to etablish new colonies
The Asia Became the Flagship of the Sol 2nd fleet and went to Reach to try and salvage what remained of Reach
The Australia Became the Flagship of the 3rd sol fleet
The South America was the first to run into the Covenant and there was a nasty fight with the odds against the covenant
Captian General Thomas Marik had looked out of the bridge when he saw the moving lights in the blank space of stars.
"Mr. Wu make a scan in the coreward bow area" He said
Mr. Wu was sensors and well sensors is good
"Aye Sir, commencing scan..." he looked at his station on the immense bridge.
"Looks like a Covenant Recon picket sir, a destroyer and two frigates." he said as he continued lookign into the screen
"Panama, bring up weapons please and if you will alert the rest of the fleet." He said to the ship's AI Panama had a holo of a South American Native
"Aye sir, bringing up weapons." he replied With a Jamican Accent
The captian felt the rumbling of the ship's three powercores go into combat state and feed energy to the behemoth's primary weapon
The Laser Naval Auto Cannon. The covenant seeing and detecting the power surge went into a similar state
"Captian, enemy ships are powering weapons and are on attack vectors." Panama said as he appered again at the holo projector.
"Good, is the rest of the fleet alerted?" Marik replied
"Yes sir and they report that they are ready to rock."
"Alright, Aim the first salvo at the opposing destroyer's bow, give them a shot at half power, and see if they will back off." he said
The South American looks like the old Hyclon class criusers (POA essentially) and a red ball of energy erupted where the MAC should be and the ball of energy was projected at the opposing destroyer and hit it dead center. The ball engulfed the nose and then disspated, leaving the ship shield less and with a nasty burn mark on the nose. The ship slowed a little bit and then it returned fire. The bluish beams loomed in the bridge's view
"Sir, should we evade?" Panama said with a hint of nervousness
"No, Let's show them we can take as much as we can dish out." he said
The bluish beam hit the South America with a loud explosion and the ship shook alittle.
"Sir, Shield was tipped off, we're now at 98% shield intergrity" Panama reported
"Good, Charge up the gun and let them have it!" Marik yelled
"Aye aye Sir!" the Chief Weapons Master yelled
"Weapons locked! Commencing Fire!" He yelled
This time however, the red ball was now a stream. Marik noticed the heat in the ship go up a noticable amount
"Damn, we'll have to report that to command." he muttered.
"What was that? Ohhh... The heat, ahh yeah sir, the heatsinks are not warmed up." Panama said a little sheepishly
The Beam however slammed into the destroyer and completely oblitterating it. the ship litteraly turned inside out before the beam impaled it and the cores to the ship went nuclear and the destroyer disappered in a flash of nuclear energy.
"Sir, the destroyer has been eliminated. switching to the missle racks and opening up." the weapons master reported.
About 400 tubes in the ship opened up to release a missile that was made of a special material that could penetrate shielding with no problems and well, each of the frigates was engulffed in explsions and when the fireworks stopped, there was only two blackend and twisted hulls left.
"Captain, all opposing ships have been eliminated, shall we start the damage control checks?" Panama asked
"We took no damage right?" Marik asked confused
"Well, when the Main gun fired the second time, one of the heat exchange dampers fused and well, that's what caused the temperature to increase." Panama replied
"Okay, get engineering on it and report ths to command." Marik replied
"Aye sir, sending report now."
Little did the crew know that the Recon picket had noticed them coming in and fired off a message to the Covenant superiors and a large fleet was dispatched to deal with new ship.
While the crew were chatting about the crushing blow they had just dealt to the Covenant warships, the Radar techs stayed around on station
"Captian! Enemy warships are coming in! I'm counting at 2 fleets of mutiple CCS crusiers and two battleships! The number of frigates is still going up! sir! I don't like this!" The radar tech started going. Panama Appeared.
"Sir, if they keep on adding on the frigates, we're gonna take 96% fleet casulties, I advise we radio command and see if we can get the Australia out here!"
"Okay, What are our options and how long will take to the Australia and her fleet to get out here..." The captian trailed off.
"Radioing the Australia and My calculations say a few hours." Panama Replied, "Our options are limited to fighting a running battle and draw out the fleet to the Asteroid fleet here." Panama replied and an asteroid belt appeared.
"If we can get them to commit to there, we can unleash our corvettes and take out most of the major battleships and that way we'll be able to crush the frigates in the belt." he said
"Alright, radio the other ships and implement the plan, this is all yours Panama."
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