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ZendikaroftheWest
they impact upon the shields being halted by the solid barrier as the pd slam fire into it ripping them apart.

kola2134
With the destruction of the fighter, the way seems clear. A way through the ships, to the Zworder-class battleship.

ZendikaroftheWest
The task force of ships continue the slow advance into the field of destroyed vessels. A hatch dropping from the rear of the cruisers as they let out a deployment of fighter wings.

kola2134
Nothing further hinders them, as it is eerily quiet. The fighters find nothing beyond the debris. However, unbeknownst to the ships, a submarine is watching them, reccording their every movement.

ZendikaroftheWest
The small force of vessels continue the advance through the field as scanners slowly go over everything they pass and the fighters continue a screen.

The remains of a small HDC fleet arrive at the location. It contains 2 cruisers, 3 frigates and 10 destroyers.
The main Cruiser, the HDC Firestorm, leads the formation, followed by the second one. They scan the location as good as they could. The HDC Firestorm sends out a fighter squadron out of its small hangar. The fighters split up to search the ruins. The HDC Firestorm sends a message on every available frequency: "Can somebody hear us? Is there anybody left?"

kola2134

Hannizio
(sorry, i forgot about this, if you want to i can continue or stop dis)
As the ships continue, they detect the HDC fleet arrive, and hear the message sent out. This seems to wake up some of the remaining ships, as two cruisers and one destroyer come alive and attack the fleet. On the fleets long range scanners, it is seen that more ships are near the HDC fleet as it sent out the message

ZendikaroftheWest The fleet directly goes into attack position. The frigates charge up their railguns with strong penetration cannons with explosive charge. The destroyed ships all around create a situation where the ships are closer to each other than in open space, perfect for the cannons of the frigates. the cruisers make their missiles ready (High explosive and HEAT) together with their 4 smaller nearly spinal railguns and cannons. All cannons load high shells with a solid heavy core or HEAT ammo for bigger calibers.
The fleet was caught by surprise, so it cant react to the attack directly. The cruiser tries to open communications, while chaos breaks out on the bridge

Hannizio
The fleet facing them consists of three attack cruisers, two missile cruisers, and twelve destroyers. They are split into two groups. Group one is about 14km from the ships on the portside, and group two is about 32km off the bow. Group one consists of the three attack cruisers and four of the destroyers. Group two consists of the two missile cruisers and the other eight destroyers. The attack cruisers immidateley launch their side mounted Eater-1 class self destructing attack fighters, which streak at the HDC firestorms bridge. They also begin firing volleys of beam fire at the cruisers. Missiles are launched from the missile cruisers, fanning out into a scattered pattern, meant to deter point defense. All of the destroyers close fast, beams firing from their many turrets.

ZendikaroftheWest (How did the 2 cruisers become 5 cruisers?) *The frigates fire their big stealth missiles. The point defense grid is working at maximum capacity but cant hold of all missiles. The first frigates come into position. knowing they are out gunned and outclassed, the Cruiser aim their heavy weaponry to the enemy, while destroyers try to flank and frigates accelerate to break into enemy lines while firing railguns.

The ships dont have any sort of shielding, but heavy armor and cannons. knowing this, they have to go all in and concentrate their fire, while not holding anything back.
the fighters are a hard target, but the defensive grid established by the PD of the frigates being coordinated near perfection can stop nearly all. The outpost at the top, mistaken for the bridge, gets destroyed, crippling the HDC firestorms sensor equipment and by this takes her out of fight for an unknow duration. Seeing this, the other cruiser sends a distress call to all HDC forces that might listen, but even they themselves doubt anyone would come

The Caloris armor of the bigger ships is able to hold of beam fire and other heat based attacks quite well, but the smaller destroyers get some critical hits, one loses his engines, another one is completely destroyed

The rockets flight patterns seem to cause quite some confusion for the AI controlling the PD. The weird form of flight lets it think it sees some kind of fighter and so only heavier PD starts firing. When an officer noticed the mistake, he changes some AI settings, causing some missiles to be overseen. the missiles hit hard and cause the Caloris to break up at some points and opening weak spots.

The destroyers closing up is a thread to the bigger ships, so the frigates try to snipe them with railguns while the first salvo of stealth rockets is sent. Those rockets are quite new, and nearly invisible to radar or heat sensors, especially while near ships. They time the railguns precisely so one can put down the shield of a destroyer, and the other shoots right through the middle. They use a special railgun ammunition, that splits into multiple shots mid flight to do maximum damage and maximum penetration, but to use this kind, the first have to shoot out the shells with explosive charge. They use these to aim for the first row of attacking enemies.

The only cruiser in battle condition tries to move in front of the HDC firestorm stays in the back, shooting with cannons while giving direction to launch missiles via Morse code and blinking lights to the HDC firestorm The cannons are heavy and rotate slowly. The shoot quite inaccurate but with a great velocity. It aims at th enemy cruisers and tries to keep them at distance

The destroyers swarm out to the side, ready to return to flank the enemy destroyers or to counterattack.*

ZendikaroftheWest oh, good to know (sorry if my response was to much, this is kind of my first combat event)

ZendikaroftheWest *The fleet, seeing its shells bouncing off, decides to switch to HEAT ammo to even get into very hard angled slopes.
Detecting the torpedos, all PD fires on them. They do their best, and stop them, but in the end 1 frigate gets hit by the detonation of one of them and has its weapons on one side crippled. During this, some rockets slipped thorough and dealt a bit of damage to the hull of another frigate.

The destroyers seeing their chance coming, swarm, back in to block the way of the enemy destroyers. They fire their many smaller and some bigger cannons.

From the line behind the enemy destroyers, there come 2 frigates firing their railguns and try to get in between the destroyers to use both broadsides. Both aim their missiles, now HE missiles to put down shields who are visible to PD systems, at the destroyers.
The cruiser still tries to keep the enemy cruisers at bay and protects the Firestorm.

A small shuttle flies from the Firestorm to the other cruiser*

Hannizio
The destroyers immidatley turn about and head up, ̶D̶e̶f̶y̶i̶n̶g̶ ̶a̶l̶l̶ ̶s̶c̶i̶-̶f̶i̶ ̶n̶o̶r̶m̶s̶ streaking away. Two more destroyers are hit by the railguns, with one's left wing being destroyed, (Along with about a third of its weapons) and the other taking a direct hit on the bridge, sending it spinning out of control for a few minutes until control can be restored. The assault and missile cruisers, seeing their chance, come streaking in, with the missile cruisers attacking the HDC firestorm and it's guarding cruiser, and the assult cruisers sweeping in from the side to attack the destroyers. The missile cruisers, once within about 200m, fire their last load of missiles, all toward the guarding cruiser. They also begin firing from their two beam mounts. The Assault cruisers fire at the destroyers, concentrating on one spot on each destroyer.

ZendikaroftheWest The weapons of the cruiser fire. The Firestorm manages to reactivate some of its backup sensors. It sees that the fight is lost, and tries to escape.
The destroyers and frigates start targeting the cruisers. One of the frigate loads its railgun with a hydrogen bomb inside its projectile. The escort cruiser has no broadside weapons, but shoots all its guns at the assault cruisers. It has taken some serious damage and only the thick armor and layered ring design has prevented its death. Chaos is everywhere and the first escape pods launch.
The beam mounts give the rest to one of the main turrets of the cruiser.
The concentrated fire of the front facing weapons of the guardian cruiser manage to penetrate the shield of one of the missile cruisers and shooting a few heavy rounds right into the hull
The PD of the cruisers is overwhelmed by the missiles and they hit the armor of them hard

Hannizio
While it seems that the fight is lost, something has changed. One by one, each ship loses control, falters, then detonates. However, in what seems to be the last dying breath of a great empire, a cone expands from the center of the wreckage, preserving the ships, but removing... Something. As it reaches the HDC ships, it flows through them, removing all FTL components and fuel, as well as any FTL blueprints. The ships are then blown, along with the wreckage, to another system, far away. They are now in orbit of a blue-green planet, with no maps, FTL or way to get home. It seems that they are trapped here now.

ZendikaroftheWest Question: Do I still have my reactors and fuel for them? Do the escape pods teleport along?

*All ships are in confusion. No one really knows what happened. Just when they thought they where save, a big explosion rips the guardian carrier in two halves. This leaves it crippled. The Firestorm would want to start a rescue mission, but only simple visual sensors work. For now it is to risky to fly close with another ship, in case of a second explosion caused by ammo burning For now the ships stay in orbit. Both parts of the Cruiser have live support systems good enough to keep the crew alive, but without thrusters, the front part is doomed to fall down sooner or later

For now waiting is the only option they can take, since all long range communication and scanning devices are on the badly damaged cruisers*

Hannizio
reactors, yes, and fuel, but no way to go to ftl. and yes they do

Hannizio
When the cruisers comms and sensors come back online, they find...nothing. No star, no planets, no galaxy. Nothing but the planet. Whatever brought them here must mean for them to explore it.