Drakador_Chaos Amazing_Goob
Galvanic-Aether Round 3 Rogue Forces
[11/18] (12/12) Disruptor Frigate: 28
Stress: <28/47> ( Base Gauge: [3](6) )
--------- Light Cruiser: 3
Albert| [o][ ]( )( )( )( ) ( Base Gauge: [5](10) )
Amy/Regina| [X](X)(o)(o)(o)(o)( )( ) Bomber Droneship: 4
Broderick| [X][X][X](X)(X)(!)(!)(o)(o) ( Base Gauge: [1](5) )
- Battleship Subcore
- [o][o][o][o][o][o][o][ ]( )( )( )( )( )( )
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Rolls:
<2 + 10 + 6 = 18> <19 + 5 + 6 = 30> <13 + 5 + 5 = 23> <10 + 5 + 6 = 21>
Ally bonuses: +4 (Novai) | +4 (Friendly Droneships)
Frigates: {Attacks: 15 || 8 Miss - 3 Stress - !! 4 HIT !! }
Cruisers: <5 + 3 = 8> <1 (Fail)> <19 + 3 = 22>
Bombers: {Attacks: 3 || 1 Miss - 1 Stress - !! 1 HIT !! }
Subcore: <10 + 5 = 15> <3 + 5 = 8>
((That actually took way too long to process. I gotta keep this in mind for mass combats in the future.))
Galvanic-Aether:
Galvanic-Aether takes control of the artillery wings and locks on to the Subcore, firing the full three salvos, while the Assault subcores barrage the incoming Assault Bombers with plasma fire (it proved to be rather effective). At this, two of the three cruisers defending the Subcore generate Barrier projections to screen from the incoming fire. Apparently, one of the cruisers (the middle one) seemed to have suffered a malfunction from combat damage against Zero-Quad, and its barrier fizzled. A Psi-lance clips the cruiser and severs two of its six "legs" from the Drone Core, the resulting separation disintegrating the legs as they also lose their connection to the Drone Core.
Most of the Rift- and Electron-Lances hit the first cruiser, but then that barrier shatters from the sheer amount of energy deposited into it by the lances. The last Electron-Lance hits the first cruiser directly on the drone core, disrupting systems and causing the frame of the large droneship to flicker.
The Subcore's own shielding and armor managed to absorb the remaining lances...
Light Cruiser 1: [X][X][X][o][o](o)(o)(o)(o)( )( )( )( )( )( )
Light Cruiser 2: [X][X][X][X][X](X)(X)(!)(!)(!)(!)( )( )( )( )
Light Cruiser 3: [ ][ ][ ][ ][ ]( )( )( )( )( )( )( )( )( )( )
Battleship Subcore: [o][o][o][o][o][o][o][ ]( )( )( )( )( )( )
The third light cruiser... shot a Rift-Lance into a portal. All that build up and it was firing on a different target this whole ti--!?
That same portal closes then re-opens to the front and left of Galvanic-Aether's position. His droneships, in defense mode, were in the way, but the lance cleaved through one of his Heavy fighters and just managed to graze the upper right arm of his frame - the sheer force of the lance tore apart some armor plates, and his visuals distorted and went fuzzy for a little bit from the interference.
Most of the Frigate droneships were aiming for him, but were mainly missing. The countermeasures seem to work... except for on large-scale weapons like Rift-Lances coming from FREAKING PORTALS... Combination attack perhaps?
Albert: <8> vs |7|
Albert focuses on the nearest Frigate and increases the pressure from the inside. It seems the Drone Core already had an optimal pressure set for itself and tried to resist the psionic interference... but Albert managed to be the more influential. The phasemetal frame started to cave in from the pressure, but not enough to completely crush the droneship. It switched targets and fired at Albert, and so did like four other Frigates that were in formation, but none of them seemed to be even close.
Targeted Disruptor Frigate: [X][X][X](!)(!)( )( )( )( )
Amy/Regina: <10>
Neither Amy nor Regina know what would happen if they struck the metal end of their staff at what is clearly not a metal drone... but it's worth a try, right? They swung the staff at the most damaged droneship they could find and managed to hit...
...What!? It worked!?
The Staff hit the near-broken Drone frame and absorbed the whatever the heck it is made out of onto the staff... giving it a sort of glassy, red glow surrounding the actual metal part. After then following-up with a strike from the wooden end, the material wasn't absorbed, but rather the small white hedron that was inside the frame broke into a thousand pieces, and the rest of the droneship broke apart.
Wow... they did it!
The celebration was cut very short, however, as two Frigates and a Bomber close in and open fire. Some rounds of gatling fire from the Bomber (must be a secondary weapon) pierced through part of the wings and something akin to a ship-grade electrobolt zapped the shared body. That not only hurt, but felt REALLY UNCOMFORTABLE for both of them ((They take bonus stress damage from that))
Targeted Disruptor Frigate: [X][X][X](X)(X)(X)(X)(X)(X) ||-1 Disruptor Frigate||
Attacking Disruptor Frigate 1: [X][X][X](X)(o)( )( )( )( )
Attacking Disruptor Frigate 2: [X][ ][ ]( )( )( )( )( )( )
Attacking Assault Bomber: [ ]( )( )( )( )( )
Broderick: <5> vs |19| ((Ooof, Sorry man.))
Broderick whirls around like a living boomerang and throws himself at the bomber. Not even close to impact he felt that something was terribly wrong, and before he could adjust, there was a bright flash, and then a stingy, aching feeling in his gut. Following that were more stings across his entire body. He was spinning the opposite way, and slower than before, he could see that he has been hurt badly by the Bomber, though the implants started pumping Broderick's bloodstream full of morphine (or healing magic, whatever works) to try and ease the pain and keep him from dying of shock.
He noticed he was falling for a while, so he flapped his wings until he stopped the falling feeling, and then touched down on a pseudo-floor to try and recover...
Targeted Assault Bomber: [ ]( )( )( )( )( )
Ixornvas saw what happened - Broderick was hit by what seems to be similar to a small-scale photomagnetic torpedo, and then pelleted with minigun fire... where the bullets were red for some reason. Probably because it's an Assault-Class drone. He's starting to have second guesses about sending a hardy brawler into a dimension where you quite literally have to think of everything to survive - as was told to him by Window-Null.
...........
It seems the Cruisers are switching configurations, now which one is the one attacking and which are the ones defending the subcore?
Meanwhile the Bombers are now focusing solely on the droneships and Novai. Galvanic-Aether is alerted by his arcanist subcores that one of the Novai Allies has been critically injured...
Subcores in the 6th Dimension tend to take the form of whatever their memory-cache thinks is the best representation of their life portrayed on a sort of vessel. This one seems to be a japanese-style flying naval battleship... but instead of the sunrise flag, it seems to be the flag of... Thunder Dragons? Either way, it's continuing to help the Light Cruisers and is now activating its own weapons.
......
The formation of Disruptor Frigates break their formation and begin surrounding Albert. This is going to get intersting...
Recovered from the shock, Amy and Regina notice that the Bomber is pretty far away, and the two Disruptor frigates remaining are closing in. The metal end of their staff still glows...
Broderick isn't really able to do anything until next round... unless he's healing or retreating, really. I mean, look at him! The poor winged fighter person...