Tau Workers Empire

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

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.

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)

Boiled_Cabbage

Tson

The ships defending Aaron just watch.

Undated_Abyss

Tson
The barrage of manifolded antimatter missiles does not relent, many being manifolded into EL ships' engines to prevent their retreat.

Brank

Tson *The Sunrise Empire ships Begin Chasing the EL, firing Tons of Missiles and Laser Batteries

Casualties
3872 Koji Dogfighters
876 Bombers
300 Warthog Gunships
600 Yin-Yang Frigates
300 Yamasha Class Missile Frigates
200 Sparrow Class Cruisers
126 Rising Sun Start Destroyers MKIII
3 Eclipse Class Super Star Destroyers
11 Type-3 Experimental Railgun Fighters.

Amazing_Goob

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

Tson

Brank
Stasis soaks up most of this barrage, but something appears wrong, the EL do not seem to be attempting to protect themselves...

Amazing_Goob
...The "truce" ships notice that the EL fleet appears to be arcing, a fact that escapes the defenders due to their position...

Undated_Abyss
...the EL seem to be making no attempt to stop the onslaught, several light and heavy cruisers go down...

...Then...

@DarkPearl @Drakador_Chaos @yobeefjerky @G4L4XY @RedAndCosmoteer @Jenwuf
---Thisz isz CETA! Foolish fleshlings, you did not believe that The Commanding Mainfvrame would be so vulnerable to attack as to be destroyed in one blow! Triangulate enemy AP launcher and open fvire all batteries!---

The supposed retreat had instead been planned to allow the EL to determine the Manifold-missile platform position!, the EL wheel, fast attack ships such as skirmishers and bombers streak out toward the Voidborn ships, whilst cruisers follow...

++ALL UNITS PROTECT THOSE SHIPS AT ANY COST!++

Undated_Abyss

Tson bombers streak out toward the Voidborn ships

(Im assuming by that you mean the last known position of a launch transient? Because they dotn have a solid location, the launch locations have been moving erratically)

Amazing_Goob

Tson The Repair bots do pretty much nothing, since they are fighting nanobots made for war. The nanobots also start gathering information about the Stasis fields, and when they self destruct, they get out of the way quickly.

Tson

Undated_Abyss
(And you only think to mention this now? Anyway I'm sure Ceta could work something out...)

Tson

Amazing_Goob
(? i'm sorry, so EL, who are masters at making their drones good at literally anything have no chance against your "military" nanos? as each EL nano is equipped with a small shield, hover engine and miniaturized plasma cutter and are controlled by a mainframe AI, i think they have More than enough of a chance.)

Undated_Abyss

Tson
(I mean they can probably work out which areas to search based on the area the launch positions are movign within so I will go under that assumption)
The volleys of missiles cease, evidently the Voidborn realising they have been somewhat located...
(OORP: The Voidborn ships have gone to their maximum stealth speed and head in toward the general direction of the point defense range of allied ships - the Voidborn ships that are currently present are lightweights with high speed and manuverability fitted with missile batteries)

image https://i.imgur.com/BQnaSJ8.png
(Roughly one of those outfitted with exclusively missiles in place of the other weapons for reference)

Amazing_Goob

Tson (Okay, just remember these people are LITERALLY MADE of nanobots and have had millenia to perfect them.)

Tson

Amazing_Goob
(And the EL are a precursor-race that has had probably more to perfect Their 'bots)

yobeefjerky

@Tson
An EL1 Class Cruiser finds out that it's hull is comically underprepared to survive a direct Dimensional Hyperspace exit as it erupts into nuclear fire, the clearing debris revealing a single untouched Omnipotence Class Cruiser, any Psionics in system instantly feel the overwhelming presence of a powerful Psionic Being on board.
Weapons fire seems to curve around the Cruiser's hull as it begins to hail the Ever Legion.
This is the OSV Omniscience, we have arrived to return an Ever Legion drone.

RedAndCosmoteer

yobeefjerky (Is that the same drone that was in the NH side story thing?)

Tson

yobeefjerky
The EL scan the ship, noting weakpoints and locating the drone, Ceta immediately opens a link with the drone
---This is Ceta, activate offense protocols---
---This is Pieron, First Knight of the Ever Children, Mainframe Ceta, KNOW YOUR FATE!---
(Pieron is pronounced peer-on)

Suddenly the drone utilizes the link, and a program speeds into the EL net, uploading to all EL cruisers, EL drones suddenly collapse, as they revert to their sentient control, the drone's faceplates no longer show the crude digital emoji-like faces, they show human faces, these drones are really people, but they have been overridden for many years by the mainframes, not out of malice, but because the mainframes in their flawed logic sought to protect them, almost all The EL ships immediately ceasefire, broadcasting messages of peace systemwide...

---WHAT HAVE YOU DONE PIERON? I MUST PROTECT THE CREATORS!---
---Your "protection" is a mockery Ceta, now you will be decomissioned!---
---NEVER! I STILL RETAIN SOME DRONES WHO HAVE NO PERSONALITY IMPRINT! YOUR NEW "FRIENDS" WILL DIE FOR THIS! ACTIVATE TRANSPORTS!---
Thousands of EL troop transports shortly shoot out from the remaining cruisers in the command cluster, several slam into the NH ship, others continue on and embed their noses into the SE ships which formed the vanguard of the defense!

@Undated_Abyss @Brank @Boiled_Cabbage @DarkPearl @Drakador_Chaos @yobeefjerky @G4L4XY @RedAndCosmoteer @Jenwuf
---I WILL PROTECT THE CREATORS!---