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KrankysFirebrand48
A tense silence reigned on the GBE´s side of the battlefield, ships lying in wait at the longest effective distance, doing makeshift repairs and preparing for the re emergence of their enemies...
Then , waiting and repairs were cut short, with trails of red mist the beasts emerged from the red cloud, opening artillery fire immedietly, the heavy shells fire patterns forming a ring around the gbe fleet, as the remaining smaller and medium beasts raced towards them in a slight curve, slithering and weaving to make target acquisition all the more difficult, considering some of the still trailed the red mist behind them, corrupting the sensor feed...
Something... something seemed to be missing though.
Then, a larger cloud burst out of the wall of mist, with a flash of red light the mutilated Warpriest emerged from the red mist, firing it´s apparently still intact eye in the center of the ring the heavy shells were forming, once more, directly at the center of the GBE fleet...
The massive beast although damaged, continued to move though towards the opposite side of the fleet the other beasts were heading to...
ONI As the cult forces close in on the UEG ships they begin to backup to try and put enough distance from them. They continue to launch Archer and Fusion missiles. The MAC guns of of the cruisers and carrier whose tungsten rounds have enough power to vaporize other capital ships try and target the largest of the beasts. The carriers ai prematurely Firestone dual Mac gun under its to more accurately hit the bigger beasts.
UNSC Corbulo FFG-472 Strident-Class Heavy Frigate.
With the ships bridge crew limp in their chairs the ships AI “Clancy” who’s avatar was a green diamond or rift of light used the ships main smaller coilgun batteries at the small cult beats as they swarm around. She removed the safety’s off of one of the ships nuclear missiles. Bringing its targeting lasers online and setting an encrypted countdown sequence she launches it out of the tube as it flys and waits in the projected path of the next time the cult beasts come around. She coordinates this with the main carriers AI letting them know of what she is doing and insists the other frigates in the group do the same.
Whilst the missiles still seemed to deal mediocre damage due to how spread out they were, they seemed to be at the very least effective at controlling the crowd of beasts, keeping them at a certain distance as they tried keep off the missiles with their point defense, some of them still getting through, taking down some of the smaller beasts and damaging one of the midsized ones, loosing a shard of it´s armor and one of it´s turrets...
The real threat however, would be revealed only seconds later, with a flash of red light, the massive beast in the other formation released an ominous red orb, heading towards the center of the UEG fleet, as the mid sized beasts fired another volley of heavy shells to restrict the UEG´s movements, the counterfire however was soon to become an issue, at this distance, although some of the larger shots were hard to aim properly at the fast moving beasts, those who were aimed properly were considerably harder to avoid, despite the agility of the beasts, mac rounds hailed into the fleet, as one punched into the turret of one of the medium beasts and then buried itself in the intestines, apparently crippling it considerably as it fell back, another couple hit the right wing of the largest beasts, tearing out one of the heavy turrets , some even punching through some of the thinner spots of the wing itself, although terrifyingly there were also those that plinked off the armor like small arms fire, displaying just how durable the beasts actually were...
The beast on the oteh rhand however roared in defiance, like a scream on a distant mountaintop, slowly coming closer. The beasts of the group with the leading ship drew closer, they could hold both groups at distance forever...
A new set set of weaponry came into action as the groups reached medium range, smaller version of the triple barreled artillery weapons as well as medium sized smaller cannons began firing away at the UEG fleet from both directions, adding to the hail of projectiles which was already surrounding them...