Tau Workers Empire

RedAndCosmoteer

Tson (I had no idea that fleets as such were so big.)

G4L4XY

<Aether M-7> "On three, two, o-"

Aether M-7 goes down, firing its last shots, and sending its core data and report back to the Flare database.

The fleet fades, causing EL ships that got close enough to lose their way in the particle smokescreen, as their sensors are being jammed.

RedAndCosmoteer

Tson Amazing_Goob G4L4XY Brank

All remaining Dominion Solar ships, and other defenders recieve a transmission from the surviving Eontenvian battleship.

++Calling all defenders, this is the E.F.V Shield of Light, are you recieving me?++

Tson

G4L4XY
The EL following the FlareCorp ships are lost in the cloud for the moment

Amazing_Goob
...However due to the fact that everyone seems to be ignoring, I.E that the EL HAVE JUST PUT THEIR STASIS FIELDS UP, the nanobots impact harmlessly on the protective barrier, and any ships which were too damaged to raise their stasis use their own repair nanos to fight the attacking 'bots, and if overcome initiate "Surgical" protocol (Basically blowing the ship's ammo and fuel reserves, then stasis-dicing the ship)

---Divert Superheavy Cruiser Division 3 to counter threat.---

An arm of large cruisers pirouettes down and out toward the "Truce" ships

Undated_Abyss
EL commence particle sweeps to try and determine the ping location

RedAndCosmoteer
++Receiving you strength 3, please boost your transmitter.++

@Brank @Boiled_Cabbage @DarkPearl @Drakador_Chaos @yobeefjerky @G4L4XY @RedAndCosmoteer @Jenwuf
The devastating play of weapons between the EL and the defenders continues

Undated_Abyss

Tson
A few brief energy signatures are detected on the edge of the combat area, similar to that of FTL drives although the signature is more intense, though sensors detect no ships present - It is deemed likely cloaked combat vessels are now present somewhere in the area, location unknown.

Undated_Abyss

Undated_Abyss
RedAndCosmoteer
Although it is unclear where from, some sort of acknowledging "ping" is transmitted presumably by the cloaked ships.

Brank

Tson
Nicholi
"Launch the Fission Missile"
Operator
"Launching the 'Arrow of The Empire Fission missile, sir."
A Giant Missile Fires, going at near lightspeed, hitting the EL Arm, destroying no less than 5,000 Cruisers.

Amazing_Goob

Brank (Tip: Stop assuming you always succeed.)

Tson

Brank
(They literally just raised stasis, you need to read people's posts)

G4L4XY

I never assume that my hits succeed/say the ship is dead. I just say I fired and put the amount of ships I've lost.

Amazing_Goob

Tson About 1,000 Truce ships warp in. "The Truce is here! Sorry for being late but- HOLY CRAP! That is a lot of ships. Just a sec..." 500,000 more warp in. Then, some of the smaller ships that make up about 50% of the fleet start releasing a huge black cloud of nanobots. They go to the ships and get into the microscopic cracks, ripping apart equipment and personnel alike. (At least, attempting to.)

RedAndCosmoteer

Undated_Abyss

The captain looks at the ping...
"Hm. Must be the voidborn, only one we've encountered with stealth technology...."

In a morse analog, the battleship transmits an encrypted message to the place where he guesses they are. Might not work, though..

If recieved, It will read: "Identify."

Undated_Abyss

RedAndCosmoteer
Tson
There are many locations of pings, though it is indeterminable whther there are many ships or some are decoys...
The eoventian ship recieves further pings, though the locations are much different indicating either high speed ships or some kind of anti-trace system "Voidborn"

RedAndCosmoteer

Tson

The tachyon transmitter of the 'Shield' is boosted by 100%.

++(What's your strength number?), ensure this transmission is encrypted.++

yobeefjerky

Tson
The scan detects incredibly small distortions near the edge of the system.

G4L4XY

Tson While the EL ships are stuck in the particle cloud, the Flare ships enter their proper range, charge up weapons, and prepare for an ambush, cloaking once more.

Undated_Abyss

Tson
A fair while after the pings the EL ships detect a multitiude of missile launch transients, and them almost instantly a large cluster of several thousand missiles exits manifold directly inside the EL Flagship's stasis field(s) with a very large amount of antimatter warhead detonations hitting the ship from all directions, some missiles even detonating having manifolded inside the craft itself.

Amazing_Goob

Tson Then they just jam the sensors. And back up behind the other ships.

RedAndCosmoteer

Undated_Abyss "Alright... we'll have to go without them..."

The ships start paying no attention to the pings.

Undated_Abyss

RedAndCosmoteer
It seems the pings were limited simply to reduce detectability by the EL, thek nock on effect being also being difficult to indenify by friendlies

G4L4XY

Undated_Abyss (you had access to manifold technology?)

Tson

Undated_Abyss @Brank @Boiled_Cabbage @DarkPearl @Drakador_Chaos @yobeefjerky @G4L4XY @RedAndCosmoteer @Jenwuf
The huge warship lurches, it's stasis flickers off, then it breaks up into five portions, the five sections of the ship drift for a second, then detonate, their highly unstable plasma cores breached, time seems to slow for a second, the EL Cruisers cease firing and spin on their axis toward their point of entry into the system, then their drives kick in and they launch forward, the whole fleet regrouping as they speed toward their entry jump point...

Undated_Abyss

G4L4XY
(Yeah, Tson and I discussed over discord DMs. Ive given you a screenshot of it)