Mak Incursion: Episode 1 [End: Failure]

RandomCommander

With the primary antennae down and all his programming in disarray from a first-hand attack, it took a while for Emperor-Lance to get his secondary antennae online. On it, a priority message from a 3rd-Gen Trader-Class.

/Transmission Start/
"Take your Coreship to these coordinates..." Cobra-Composite sends you the coordinates to a Logistics Subdivision under his control, "Then Effervescent-Blade wants you to connect with Reflex-Jacket's beacon network to rally the factions. All wings are taking heavy losses and I am getting more repair orders than I have freighters to service them with! Strategic assets will be lost at this rate... As much as us 3rd-gens hate to say it... we need your emotional power, Emperor-Lance."
/Transmission End/

Meanwhile, E-L can detect multiple angry ramblings from other Core-AI. Most prominent are from Salamander-Null. With good reason, admittedly.

Brank

RandomCommander

TRANSMISSION: E-L TO C-C

"I'll head over there with what's left of my Sub-division...."

TRANSMISSION END

E-L seems angry… he failed to do his job, and now him having to leave, as he believes, might cost the end of the Galaxy...

E-L and his forces Begin to fly towards the co-ordinates

RandomCommander

yobeefjerky
((Slapped on a drone core, which happens to have a "crew" in it. There was no friendly AI module so it "deactivated" a couple of minutes later. XD))

Undated_Abyss

RandomCommander
//Roger that, Salamander-Null. We may be able to acquire reinforcements of our own from High Command given the higher than expected threat level//
( @yobeefjerky Are we allowed to bring in reinforcements from same faction?)

RandomCommander

Brank
((THE COORDINATES ARE IN THE SAME BATTLEZONE YOU ZAP-BRAINED SYSTEM RESET!))
((U DONT HAF 2 JUMP))

Jenwuf

Meanwhile...
image https://i.imgur.com/OoQSGdc.png

LCS Noah: Magnetic landing deck usage suitability is deteriorating rapidly, Multiple crashed craft blocking access to elevators 1 through 3, unable to launch further sorties allowing for current plans.

LCS Maru: Affirmative, Ammunition stores depleting rapidly, shells seem to have little effect on Mak at long range. Hussar, Hurried, any luck?

LCS Hussar: Negative.

LCS Hurried: Ditto there, Shell storages have been emptying rapidly to little effect on enemy.

LCS Lancer: Torpedo strikes innefective over here, too slow to have any meaningful effect.
Propose we begin to withdraw.

LCS Hussar: Yes, we have already done our job.

dafeeeeeeeeeesh

yobeefjerky firing the energy weapon at a much closer range 25 km away from the mak (meaning the mak have 85 microseconds to detect and evade)
also ive lost another 2 battleships

Brank

RandomCommander
(I fixed it.)

Ultranova

RandomCommander

"Affirmative, retreating in reverse spearhead. Give us two minutes to be out of your way."

The R-UPA ships reorganise surprisingly fast, still firing continuously. They all fire their retro-thrusters and retreat backwards into the fleet to recharge and restock.

dafeeeeeeeeeesh

Ultranova
(transmission from the ragnarock)
do you require are ships to move up and cover your retreat commander
(transmission end)

LeftHandofGod

It would appear the offensive is losing ground rapidly...

Ultranova

dafeeeeeeeeeesh

"Negative, we've got this. At reloading range, all other ships move to offensive until we restock."

dafeeeeeeeeeesh

Ultranova
affirmative

Drakador_Chaos

@yobeefjerky
So, just to verify, there is currently no way to join in until the next episode?

Amazing_Goob

Drakador_Chaos "Oh, if you can't join here you can aid the Mak Blockade."

RandomCommander

Amazing_Goob
"There you go, September-Rising! You owe me 1,000 cruisers."
"I was pretty sure that he wasn't going to seriously suggest that... Damnation!"
"I really hope Pyrrhic-Monarch will deploy his specialized droneships."
"Don't get your hopes up, Counter-Lambda. The Mak might tear his forces apart."

Minion222

The Backup

As Zarthenian shps kill a few Mak they retreat and form the imfamous "Solar Orb" formations. The perfect Heat-stricking formation against the Mak

image https://i.imgur.com/NtlK8xH.jpg

dafeeeeeeeeeesh

yobeefjerky i just realized we have 2 days left

Ultranova

The R-UPA ships charge ahead again, their weapons restocked. This time, they barraged the Mak with the Thermal-Clusters first, then treated them to a hail of energy weapons. They were more careful this time, only losing two light gunships and 15 light fighters to the Mak.

yobeefjerky

@Brank @Ultranova @Jenwuf @killercat625 @Gladiaxa @Spaazss @Minion222 @Tyaestysu @RandomCommander @dafeeeeeeeeeesh @Undated_Abyss @thebuilder
Note to self, don't set time limit next time.
The Mak appear to be learning, every successful attack slowly losing out on the number of Drones killed as the Mak begin evading with speed and agility that no organic-carrying vessel could hope to match. The RH ships in system being slowly decimated as the Mak unrelentingly assault them.
Tsunamis of drones form and crash down on the Solar Orb, the sheer volume of attackers mitigating any form of effective tactic. The formation shatters into it's component ships, the three battleships appear to disintegrate as tens of thousands of drones are newly fabricated.
The energy weapon fires, the Mak caught in it's path are obliterated. Unfortunately this has given them information and they begin to swarm all of the ships capable of fielding a weapon like it.
A massive golden lance spews forth from a group of RH-9s as their Navigators force as much Psionic energy as possible through the Psi-War Amps onboard the ships. The lance completely fails to affect the Mak as they continue to accelerate towards the RH-9s, shortly erasing the ships in a flurry of lights.
Current Number of Mak in System
18,324,118

(Same thing, list your losses and actions.)

Brank

yobeefjerky
:;Commencing Tactical Retreat...;:

All Assets except
[1 Hunita Class
1 Inquisition class
1 Skipper
1 KopBet]

Have been lost

dafeeeeeeeeeesh

yobeefjerky in the maks attack ive lost 7 more battle ships for a total loss of 9 and everything else other than the ragnarock is destroyed
(transmission start)
my allys im going to use the self destruct on the ragnarock get at least 40 km away before the explosion happens i dont have much time so move!
(transmission end)
(the ragnarocks explosion is overclocking the reactors until they explode and flagships in the soccaz carry 1.5 times as many reactors as they need and the ragnarock is a dreadnought its going to incinerate almost anything it hits and on top of that the ragnarock is detonating its FTL drives to make an even larger blast)
(reason for the ragnarock not being completely destroyed is that it has 50 percent more armor than the heavy battleships)
(self destruct happens in 2 mins)

dafeeeeeeeeeesh

yobeefjerky
(ragnarock explodes into a ball of fire leaving nothing left of the ship)

thebuilder

yobeefjerky 148 ships are lost, as the UEE retreats behind their shield

Gladiaxa

yobeefjerky Damage estimates:
- all hunters are lost
- Cruisers all alive and in good condition.
- More than 3 ships of commandments
-1 remaining destroyer, the last is about to fall
- More admiral ships
- Alpha admiral ship little scratched

Ultranova

yobeefjerky

The R-UPA ships are momentarily surprised by the sudden mak attack and lose:

One Capital
One Heavy Cruiser
Three Light Frigates
Five Light Gunships
146 Light Fighters
103 Heavy Fighters

They stop firing... for a split second. A whirring sound fills the air and suddenly tractor beams are all over the place. Unlike most other tractor beams, the R-UPA tractor beams are designed to use plasma rays, which means that they are extremely hot and are also highly effective at restricting movement.

They aim the tractor beams at large groups of Mak drones, holding them in place and firing at them until they become little more than space dust. The R-UPA ships bunch up in a 'grape formation', where the central ones can use their tractor beams and the outer ones can use their weapons. It seems to be effective for the meantime...

Undated_Abyss

yobeefjerky
The Voidborn vessels continue attempting to retreat, still continuously filling the area around them with massed thermal fire, the PD spraying now an even greater wall of shots.Taking out most Make who enter it before they get into range, but not all quickly enough to be completely safe...
By now the Voidborn have managed to avoid any losses due to their protective almost solid shell of fire, but most ships have suffered major or minor damage
"Admiral, ships are reporting heat capacitors starting to build up."
"That's not good. The overcharged PD fire is barely holding them back as it is..."
"If we overheat..."
"Yes... Begin charging FTL drives"
The only upside to the heat buildup is it meaning the external radiators are very hot, so much so that the fleet is emitting a heat bubble around them