Tau Workers Empire

G4L4XY

Undated_Abyss (you had access to manifold technology?)

Undated_Abyss

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

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...

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!---

yobeefjerky

RedAndCosmoteer
(I like how you are actually observant, yes it is)

Jenwuf

@Tson
//Transmission Start//
"Alright, we have re-established a command structure in this unit... its looking pretty grim, our cap's have been entirely F£#&#$, Unfortunately all we have are DD and below... yeah.
Although on the upside, we have modified our Wakeshift launchers to fire their torpedoes at sub FTL speeds.
We number in around 500 ships, 326 DD's and somewhere around 174 ships of a smaller size such as corvettes.
Well regardless, this is "Tin can" no'236, also known as DD-236, signing off for the night, night crew taking over from here."
//Transmission End//
The small ships had actually gone unnoticed until now, the tiny 100m or so long Destroyers where so small, no one even picked acknowledged them being there.
The 500 or so ships move forwards to the current frontal defensive line away from the debris field that is the TWE fleet.

For their lack of armour, the "lvov class Patrol Destroyer platform" was nicknamed "tin cans", their crews however are probably the most determined crews in the entire navy.
Armed with a experimental forward facing Echo-drive torpedo platform, for now modified to be sub FTL to avoid the interdiction field.
Having no explosive warhead, its impossible to shoot them down entirely without firing a main weapon at the torpedo, or literally melting it or knocking it off course.

The TWE seem to have ignored this invasion so far... strange.

Jesus3747

--- Kyle & Deanna ---

Kyle was confused, paralyzed, he just stood there frozen while watching his friend writhing in pain, Deanna knew that she had lost, she did everything possible to stop him, but anyway, she lost.

"I ... I'm sorry ... Kyle" Deanna said as a crimson tear ran down her cheek, "Deanna? ... DEANNA?" Kyle shouted, there was no answer, a disturbing silence took over that calm starry night, Kyle's crying was the only thing that broke that heartbreaking silence.

"Shit, shit, why the hell is this happening?" Kyle's laments quickly became guilt and anger, "I shouldnt have brought her with me ..."

16 Years before ...

A shower of stars is present in the sky, the singing of the crickets and the smell of grass were something incredible, something very rare in the overpopulated Tellus, formerly known as Earth, some children, whose names were Deanna and Kyle, were laying on the grass while admiring the wonderful shower of stars "Kyle, I would like to travel to the stars someday, fight with aliens and those things" said Deanna while pointing to the stars, "Me too, I just hate this place" ...

8 Years before ...

A young Kyle was walking with his girlfriend, Deanna, "Do you remember that night when you told me you wanted to visit the stars?" Kyle said as he watched Deanna "Yeah, but why?" Deanna asked while turning off her Holo-phone "Because I got this!" Kyle said excitedly as he pulled out 2 tickets in which he could see "Explore, Meet New Worlds, Join the Navy." "Is it real?!?!? ... How did you get them? ... Didn't they were exhausted?" Deanna asked anxiously, "Well apparently there was a free space and I took it, so, to infinite and beyond!"

6 months before

... a crowd was saying goodbye to the newly launched SUN "Aegis", a Prometheum Class Frigate while someone said a few words "... Today with pride, a new ship joins the crescent fleet of the Solar Union, this ship will travel to the deepest corners of the galaxy, discover new worlds and bring peace to the galaxy ... Good luck, Aegis!"...

While Kyle drowned in nostalgia and sadness, a voice was heard in the background "к...ץ...ɭ...є" ...