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The battle for the Delta Phi System
Posted By: Greekgod7480
Date: 25 April 2005, 6:18 PM
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January 17, 2564 (USNC Military Calendar)
Delta Phi System, USNC Inner Colony
Gladiator Class Heavy Cruiser NGC-3 Avenger
On testing mission in outer system
Vice Admiral Lee Jackson sat on the bridge of this new class of USNC starship. His bridge crew was at attention continuing their testing run in the outer rim of the system. The guys over at ONI put a lot of time into this new ship and didn't want her to get nicked up so they put someone as high as Vice Admiral in command.
Jackson was continuing the test on the new hardware they put on her, specifically the new EMC device ONI came up with. By reverse engineering some of those captured elite cloaking devices and figuring out how they worked, the managed to make some starship sized EMC devices, which were only on three ships in the fleet, his ship and the two others that were in his task force. This by no means made the ship invisible but it really messed with the Covenant's radar making it possible to get close without showing ones self.
This ship is the pride of the UNSC incorporating all of the new combination Covenant-Human technologies. New shields, plasma turrets, and upgraded MACs, this was why they were out here.
The ship's smart A.I. Brutus awoke the Admiral from his daydream saying, "It seems as though the other task force has not detected us yet, shall I continue maneuvers in the outer system?"
"Yes, " responded the Admiral, "continue the tests of the task group's cloaking sweet, signal all ships to continue maneuvers."
This continued for a good while, the Admiral was slightly bored, but he admitted to himself this was a shit load better than being out on the front lines fighting the covenant, however, there was the thought in the back of his mind of what type of carnage he could wreck with a ship like this. The Covenant would sure be in for a surprise when they got this puppy out on the front lines.
After the Admiral was done thinking he said, while taking a sip of his coffee, "Brutus would you be so kind as to hail Captains Pasisi and Brenner?"
"Of course," responded the A.I.
Captain Parisi was on the bridge of the Cesar, on of the other two ships in task force Alpha. The A.I. on that ship, Hailey, announced, "Captain, the Admirable is hailing us."
"Put him through."
"Aye sir."
"Hello Captain, how are things going on that fine ship of yours?" asked the Admiral.
"Excellent sir, all systems are functioning within normal param-"
Suddenly the radar operator on Cesar shouted, "Captain slip space ruptures barring 017!"
The Captain immediately came alert and heard the Admirable say, "Parisi, Brenner, were we supposed to be having guests?!?"
Conveniently Brutus chimed in, "No sir, in fact, those contacts are Covenant."
"How many ships?"
"I count one fleet carrier, four cruisers, and two destroyers, O and Admiral be careful, that fleet carrier is one of those ones with a "ship sniper" so it'd be in your best interest to take that bitch out ASAP."
The Admirable was in a dilemma, a covenant force had just entered another Inner Colony system, and since right now almost all resources were allocated to sol, there were only two MAC guns in orbit around the planet, and they were old models. Not to mention the problem he had with that fucking fleet carrier, that thing could kill us before we can fire a shot. He had to think fast, and it could not involve him hiding behind MAC guns like he could at Earth because soon there wouldn't be anything to hide behind.
Mid thought Brutus said, "Admirable, task force Beta, the ones supposed to be tracking us, are hailing us, shall I respond?"
The Admirable was silent for a moment, still thinking. Task Force Beta was made up of two cruisers and a destroyer, not nearly enough to stop that many covenant, even with the upgrades. However, theirs weren't nearly the level of the Avenger's, but higher than normal standards none the less. He responded, "Tell them to hold position and try to make the covenant slow down but engage if necessary to keep the covenant away from the planet."
"Aye sir."
"Brutus, tell the rest of the task force to move into attack pattern delta and follow our lead."
"Aye sir, sending signal."
"Nav, bring the ship to bearing 146, and bring the reactors up to 76%."
"Aye sire, bearing 146, reactors up to 76% aye," responded Ensign Harper.
76% thought the captain, just enough to remain undetected for the crazy scheme I'm cooking up.
The Admirable had sure been given a great crew by the guys at ONI, which was in short supply these days, as well as everything else. He guessed he was finally going to see what they were like in combat.
"Logistics bring the EMC online."
"But sir, we have not finished testing!" replied Lieutenant Jacobs.
The captain liked Jacobs, thought he was a smart kid, but now just wasn't the time to question orders, although he knew what he was about to try was going to take guts, and wasn't sure if it was going to work either.
"I said bring the EMC online," the captain coolly said.
Soon after that the rest of the task force followed suit, and proceed on the Admiral's heading.
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