Mak Incursion: Episode 1 [End: Failure]

Brank

yobeefjerky
All but E-L Warp out.

thebuilder

RandomCommander In voidspace, trough the portal, the UEE ships suddenly move aside, as new ones fly in to take their place, continuing, and making the UEE fleet a grand total of 1 megafleet, the VoidGuard fleet, the fleet that guards voidspace. They slowly come out of the portal, but stay behind their shield. (and no, voidspace is not unguarded now)

yobeefjerky

@Undated_Abyss
The Mak seem to momentarily halt as the Nova weapons fire, the drones collecting into swarms so their shields can defend against the novae plasma, thousands of drones were still destroyed from the firing.

Undated_Abyss

yobeefjerky
(The Mak obviously have a 100% dodge rate versus weapons that haven't even fired yet... And also these are not blackhole cannons they are Nova cannons, they got modified to thermal.)
(Also explain how they would simultaneously dodge 200 supernovae going off when they are fired to saturate a wide area completely)

yobeefjerky

Undated_Abyss
(Oh, I assumed they were Black Hole weapons.)

yobeefjerky

@Brank @Ultranova @Jenwuf @killercat625 @Gladiaxa @Spaazss @Minion222 @Tyaestysu @RandomCommander @dafeeeeeeeeeesh @Undated_Abyss @thebuilder
Seeing as the entire NH fleet has been destroyed, Effervescent-Blade's order was somewhat useless. The Mak seem to know that the holes in the fire patterns were dangerous as they quickly evacuate the areas after the transmission was sent. Several million drones exiting the system on random trajectories to preserve the Hive, the remaining 9 Million engage FTL Ramming procedures, the drones completely bypassing pretty much every defense as they spear through ships with infinite energy behind their assault.
Mak Drones in System
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(This is to end the episode, this is what a failure looks like and why you should avoid it.)

Undated_Abyss

yobeefjerky
(They took blackhole cannons, and effectively modified the 'projectile' they fire to be thermal based (ie supernova cannons) Its also pretty difficult to dodge them seeing as they can effectively plaster a 44km radius area if they all fire synchronously, based on their muzzle velocity of 1.5c (which is achieved by using a fucking ridiculous kinetic accelerator, and by enveloping the projectile in a warp field (the thing you use to make warpdrive FTL work)) which means even at multiple lightseconds away the time you have to not be in a 44km area is small.)

Also:

yobeefjerky Several million drones exiting the system

yobeefjerky what a failure looks like

If we made the Mak basically fuck off and retreat how is this a fail
Considering our ships are still in system (and ive already explained either here or on discord why FTL ramming the Voidborn thermal-flak fields doesnt actually impact the ships - because you hit a projectile and that FTLsplodes you first)

Jenwuf

LCS Noah's Captain? & ∞?? & ???:
Our time here is at an end. We must retreat before any more of us are lost

Unfortunate...Perhaps next time...yes...hmm...

Hmm... There may be another way...
Yes...
Come home my kin, and we may proceed to use another plan...
It was foolish to think that this would end any other way than loss, after all... Only Ice is eternal...

yobeefjerky
The LC ships Eho-Jump out of the area with no prior warning or communication, their only losses are fighters due to their large distance from the actual combat.

Around 79 Crew, mainly fighter pilots, are registered as M.I.A.

RandomCommander

Undated_Abyss If we made the Mak basically fuck off and retreat how is this a fail

Because they continue to grow and will still be considered a threat.

yobeefjerky

Undated_Abyss
Because they left on random trajectories. Basically the threat spread out and is now able to grow far faster.
You also lost 90% of the ships in the engagement, which includes two entire Primari Fleets, a Terror Class Megacapital, likely a DC Core-AI. The entire kingdom of Zarthen, and numerous other various ships.
I wouldn't call that a victory.

Undated_Abyss

RandomCommander
But yet people retreated knowing this
Goddammit
~~assaults mak hive~~

LeftHandofGod

Jenwuf thebuilder Undated_Abyss
https://forum.cosmoteer.net/d/7792-union-of-the-strong
Retreat and regroup, my brethren.

thebuilder

yobeefjerky the UEE losses were smal, as most of them were still in their voidshield, and thus there are still about 200,000 ships of the UEE in the system. might be more like 198,780 do.

killercat625

yobeefjerky
@Brank @Ultranova @Jenwuf @killercat625 @Gladiaxa @Spaazss @Minion222 @Tyaestysu @RandomCommander @dafeeeeeeeeeesh @Undated_Abyss @thebuilder

We are retreating through the rift gates to make another line to hold out

SnowDoggo

@yobeefjerky ....can i join the next one?

Brank

SnowDoggo
https://forum.cosmoteer.net/d/7844-mak-incursion-episode-two/5