The Star Forge

Brank

LeftHandofGod RandomCommander Boiled_Cabbage @Jenwuf boombox
A Massive warfleet, consisting of Hundreds of Moon sized Motherships, and Millions of Carriers and Cruisers, colored in a Deep Black and Red color Scheme

WE ARE THE TAL'DARIM, WE WILL NOT LET THIS THREAT TO ALL LIFE EXIST ANY LONGER
Surrender... Or Be destroyed
A Comms with all the Non-HI ships are Opened
"We are The Tal'darim, we have a common enemy, we wish you Luck in battle. Entaro Zeratul"
The Ships Begin to Move, waiting for a response from the HI, if they do not respond within 30 minutes, they will attack.

boombox

Brank
Rommel replies:
"Viel Glück! Wir are under heavy attack, and need fire support."

Jenwuf

LeftHandofGod
Increasing the gaps in their formation, the JTAE ships continue to push forwards, even if the forge fires its weapon at them, its unlikely to do much damage considering the fleet's size.

Various screeches drown out nearby defence comms networks, making what defence fleet the forge has waste time switching frequencies every now and then when the noise becomes too loud.

boombox
Considering the fleet hasn't fired at the GSR yet, its unlikely they are hostile and must have received the transmission.

Brank

boombox
The Fleet, Changing Their Mind, Charges all weapons, a mirror of sorts is placed in front of the fleet, They fire, and all the Beams Combine, Firing a Massive Beam that disables shields and Does Damage to the Station, the ships Blink warp in front of the GSR, the shots coming from them not Hurting them, when the GSR Stops Firing, they make a Wall protecting them, giving the GSR Time to Get Better Situated, they tank the shots from the Star forge, one mothership goes down, another warps in.

boombox

Brank
@LeftHandofGod
"Danke, wir owe you."
Hans now has time to reassemble the fleet, they form multiple groups and attack from different angles, making them harder to hit...

Drakador_Chaos

Boiled_Cabbage (I think an installation as big as a dyson ring has dedicated point defense systems against missile fire. Though this i not my thread I guess.)

Brank

Drakador_Chaos ^

Boiled_Cabbage

LeftHandofGod Drakador_Chaos

(I see, i'll remove that)

LeftHandofGod

Boiled_Cabbage
Please fix your post. We're dealing with a whole solar system here, meaning there's still several AU between the fleets and the Forge. In all likelihood, you can't even see the rings yet.. Mach 10 wouldn't get you in range of the ring before auto defenses destroyed your fighters.

The lance switches to target the Mech specifically, firing a concentrated burst of almost a full minute that overloads circuitry and begins to eat its way through the shield. several other, lesser lances begin raking at the rest of the enemy fleets. Then a signal goes out, and the defending fleet retreats further back towards the Forge, as several thousand engine signatures suddenly show up on the radar. At the edge of the system, a complex FTL interdict lock, even more resilient than the barrier sealing the Core Worlds off, rises, and as the newly revealed defending fleet begins to engage, firing barrages that rip into the attackers and shred them like glass, the commanders approaching the Forge begin to realize that this was a trap the entire time...

Brank

LeftHandofGod (Just to say, if they aimed at the Mech, they would have to go through Taldarim warfleets)

LeftHandofGod

Brank You posted while I was writing.... 🙁

Brank

LeftHandofGod (Oof Sorry)

LeftHandofGod

As the defending fleets engage, explosions and the flash of weapons fire roll along the system, the thunder of cannons roaring like the heartbeat of the cosmos.

When Hans transmits, one of the operators on a Imperial dreadnought locks onto the signal and sends its location back to the Forge. The lance flickers away for a moment, then returns at twice as much power, carving through the Tal'darim in a bid to slay the Fuher and put the GSR forces to rout.

Boiled_Cabbage

LeftHandofGod

The fleet engages the ring using long range railguns, being almost 50 km away.

Brank

LeftHandofGod ( @TinySaint )
the tal'darim open coms with khalai
We require assistance, come in with sub-ftl speeds coordinates are attached

Jenwuf

LeftHandofGod
JTAE ships quickly perform evasive manoeuvres,
They swiftly avoid incoming weaponsfire, although the larger slower ships with them take many hits.
A small portion of them stay back to buy time for the force to advance, sitting themselves between
The advancing fleet and the new defenders.

LeftHandofGod

Boiled_Cabbage 1 AU=150 million kilometres
Think about that, as well as the fact that if the ring is damaged, the star blows up.

Boiled_Cabbage

LeftHandofGod

The ships begin to fire at the Star Forge.

RandomCommander

LeftHandofGod Brank Jenwuf Jesus3747 @boombox

"Penumbra 1 and 2, have you finished collecting data?"
"The Beacon scans have passed the interdict field through their innate usage of the rift and have collected some serious data. We think we may have found a possible weakness."
"Excellent, How do we destroy the Star Forge?"
"That is... not recommended. The destruction of the forge means the destruction of the star, which will end in a Class-5 Supernova that will destroy all entities trapped in the interdict field. It would be a victory, but a pyrrhic one. We have a better solution - the Forge's massive defensive AND offensive capabilities are literally powered by the star it envelops. With so much power being diverted to this "eye of helios" and Type-III superheavy shield, we think that if we can affect the star, we can decrease the effectiveness of the Forge's combat capabilities."
"What you are suggesting may very well anger the New Hegemony."
"There is no mistake we cannot make without being able to rectify it."
"But will they see that as a rectified mistake, or a blatant attempt to hide our misdeeds?"
"Frankly, the building of a level 2 Celestial station that puts large amounts of stress on the star itself should also be a misdeed in the eyes of the New Hegemony. Besides, we cannot afford to let the station stay and generate a massive military for our enemy."
"...Very well. Conduit 1 and 2, How operational is your beacon network?"
"147% efficiency, Class-Head. We're good at what we do."
"Excellent. Prepare yourselves to alter the mass of the star."
"...If I may, it is not guaranteed that this could work with an astoundingly positive result. The best chances of this plan working would be if our Beacon network is at 160% efficiency, and even then we don't know what the Forge foreman has up their sleeves."
"The Stellar Assembly cannot afford the loss of entire battlefleets from multiple factions. We end this as soon as we can, and that means now!"
"...Affirmative."

Deep Klaxxons blare on the entire Star Forge as the main Command computers detect a Rift-Signature... Deep inside the Forge's Stellar Containment chamber! Unlike the typical portal that exerts a ship and immediately closes, it stays open, and seems to be emitting a... familiar force that bends reality to its will, except on a more, dimensional level. More alarms blare as it is registered that the Star is slowly but surely decreasing in mass, and power levels begin dropping as a result.

LeftHandofGod

Boiled_Cabbage
The shielding around the Forge comes online, drawing power from the star, denying the attackers the victory, while at the range the attackers have insisted on approaching to makes them an easy target. Numerous smaller beams, needing to be less powerful at this range begin tearing the incoming fleet apart, shredding most of it within minutes.
We can do hardball, son. We can do that indeed.

Boiled_Cabbage

LeftHandofGod

The fleet retreats, not wanting to deal with losses.

Ships lost:

3 Destroyers

10 Corvettes

5 Frigates