The Lost Fleet

RedAndCosmoteer

But I prefer the True Kilian Experience over cookies

Ultranova

RedAndCosmoteer Can't be done, kiddo. I only sell cookies.

RedAndCosmoteer

Ultranova Well, alright, I'll find it myself

Drakador_Chaos

LeftHandofGod
...as the corpse started moving and the computers threw them out, the boarding party turned around and started firing their blaster rifles at the throne after a few moments of confusion, the viral counterattack seemed to be rather useless against them as they accessed the terminals directly...In the meanwhile on the outside the grey ships started firing their turbolaser batteries, but rather than at the superdreadnought they shot down the craft of their own boarding parties and started heading towards the borders of the field, the asteroidship at the borders had detected the energy signatures that just went through the fleet, as it picked up the transmission a few moments later it started moving away from the fleet and disappeared in a flash of light once it reached a certain distance...

LeftHandofGod

Drakador_Chaos RedAndCosmoteer FangTheCat @boombox
Sluggish from its long hibernation, the ships are slow to respond, but the durasteel plating is more than sufficient to hold off the enemy fire as the turbolasers come around and acquire targets. Then those batteries open fire.

As thousands of guns speak as one, dozens of Lux ships come apart in blinding flashes of light. All around, the rest of the vast fleet begins to form up. And at the heart of it all, a strange machine flickers, jerks, and then something tears.

From a rift in reality a transmission can be heard. "Dies ist Großadmiral Rommel von der GSR für alle SA-Streitkräfte. Das Imperium hat den Leaguer gebrochen und die Belagerung ist verloren. Zurückfallen. Ich wiederhole, die Belagerung ist abgebrochen, zurückgreifen!"

Apologies if the german is messed up. I know Google Translate is far from perfect.

RedAndCosmoteer

LeftHandofGod

Commodore Exis listened to the transmission with absolute attention, noting the words "We ran from the Shadow", "Editors". "Destroy this fleet" is also one other thing that they requested, and he didn't even have time to notice all the Tonal data being destroyed in the computronium banks of his cruiser. He sent a sector-wide distress call - tens of parallax seconds across, while all the ships detached from the Trisagion, and opened fire.

Soon enough, an entire battlefleet, equipped with the highest technology of Conversion and Amat begin firing on the entire Trisagion series, seemingly not aware of the Remna until one transmission is sent:

@FangTheCat

"Remna, get out of there, we're firing on the fleet!"

FangTheCat

RedAndCosmoteer
@LeftHandofGod
"Ignore the ship we've surrounded, we got men in there, and I will Not allow them to die because 'we had to go.'"
"We're bringing in Prime 3, Prime 4, And Prime 5, They've been moved from defense to offense."

Three Battle-fleets enter the Area, not of the Lux division.. they begin to assist in the destruction of the fleet.

FangTheCat

LeftHandofGod

The Several machines with the Lux crew speak in unison.
"Weave connection Secured, Shutting down External Communication Devices."

The Lux crew each begin firing their weapons, high-powered energy bolts shred through anything in their way.. The Crew Leader unfolds his gauntlet into what appears to be a weapon of sorts.

"Do as she said.. It's irrelevant to us who we're after."

The device on the Soldier's arm lights up, a surging beam of energy jets from it, creating a sort of blade.. The Weave-protected Remna machines nearby begin firing their weapons as well, one of them launches a cluster of missiles at the Bulkhead, as the crew slowly retreat to their ship..

Meanwhile..

"Commander Lumo. Permission to destroy the fleet, we.. uh, can't take them for our own use, and I believe it would be best to avoid others having access to it."

Permission granted.. The Fleet outside begins firing volleys at nearby ships, but mostly ignore the one their crew is in, besides one of the Ships taking out the engines.

FangTheCat

LeftHandofGod

The Lux, not knowing of Old-Earth languages, panic..

Further Prime fleets arrive, with powerful shields, the Warships attack anything and everything that is of the fleet..

@RedAndCosmoteer @LeftHandofGod

The Massive anomaly above the Brain completely disappears.. only to appear above the fleets.. its gravitational pull more than strong enough to shift the Fleets underneath it, Including Remna ships..*

"Unknown Anomaly Detected, Energy Signature Detected. Unknown Origin."

boombox

LeftHandofGod
(Lol, "the siege is paused, the siege is paused" xD)

RedAndCosmoteer

LeftHandofGod (Also, is that TIME TRAVEL? I heard Admiral Rommel referring to a siege, a siege on the Star Forge or the Great Ring? Sounds legit)

RedAndCosmoteer

LeftHandofGod FangTheCat

Commodore Exis listened to the transmission in confusion. Grand Admiral Rommel of the German Space Regime? The Stellar Assembly? They were dissolved a long time ago. The siege is lost? That wasn't how history played out.

"Probability of this being a past event?"

A younger voice responded to Exis, as if a young Illateri was speaking to him but the voice was more... digitized.

"Null, sir. If I recall my galactic history correctly, then both sieges of the Star Forge - the Great Ring included, were a draw for the Stellar Assembly. I do not remember a siege being broken."

That was Stick, a dumb AI - below the human level, but it did it's job.

"Analysis of other probabilities based on signatures from the rift?"

"Analyzing... Complete, most probable being an alternate universe."

"This changes everything. Contact HIGHCOM. Oh, also, put up a space-time shield in between us and them."

A barrier of pure space-time appeared - high gravitational signatures were checked, and when the drives were charged, the fleet warped away to the next sector, still being able to observe and hear transmissions, but they were unable to do anything about the fleet - their firepower was simply too great.

Drakador_Chaos

LeftHandofGod
...after the crew inside of the leading superdreadnought didn´t seem to retaliate against the attacks of the boarders, they threw several plasma grenades against the consoles and terminals of the bridge as well as firing several salvos of blasterfire against the cables that connected to throne and the ship, then they ran off deeper into the ship searching for the central generator...
In the meanwhile the other ships had reached the borders of the fleet, as they had started moving most of them apart of the boarding party fighters made it out, even though damaged under the heavy turbolaser fire and disappeared in Hyperspace...

LeftHandofGod

FangTheCat RedAndCosmoteer Ultranova Drakador_Chaos Tson
Wow. After reading the above stuff, it's kind of surprising to realize just how fragile the entire Assembly was. It's like a house of cards that none of us realized was a house of cards until it came crashing down in slow motion. The War in Heaven really was a watershed moment for the entire RP galaxy.

The fighting rages on as the fleet slowly pulls into battle formations with more and more ships rousing from their hibernation to join the fight. And from the heart of the growing rift, a smooth black hedron emerges into this universe with a ripple. The entire assembled forces hear a voice, bottomless and dripping with malevolence.

FATHER, WHAT FOOLS THESE MORTALS BE. WHERE ARE THE FLEETS AND ARMADAS OF OLD? WHERE ARE THE HEROES AND WEAPONS TO HUMBLE EMPIRES IN THE DIRT? IS THIS ALL YOU CAN MUSTER, DEBASED REMNANTS OF A BYGONE AGE?

A shivering distortion of spacetime lashed out from the hedron into the disturbance above the fleet and shatters it into fragments. The lost fleet seems to redouble its attacks in the presence of the invader...

LeftHandofGod

boombox It was supposed to be "The siege is lost." Fuck Google Translate, man.

LeftHandofGod

RedAndCosmoteer boombox
Nope. For some clarification, what's happening is that the AI's used a modified Editor to rip a hole into an alternate reality where the War in Heaven was even MORE of a clusterfuck than it was here.

The R-UPA (@Ultranova) was targeted and destroyed before it could make planetfall on Taros and Rommel and the GSR were unable to breach the hyperspace passage and assault the Taros. Meanwhile, out in the wider galaxy, the dispersed fleets of the Imperium were busy curb stomping all over the Assembly. As of the rift's generation and Rommel's distress call, the Nova Republic (@G4L4XY ) and the Tau (@Jenwuf) have been crushed and the Dominion Solar (@Tson ) is struggling. Despite reinforcements, Rommel is unable to hold the passage against the massed fleet on the Imperial side and he's been hit in the rear, thus the message.

In conclusion, a Contemplator-controlled and insanely aggressive Imperium is about to come blazing down the pipe into a universe where the Assembly is in tatters, and none of the Powers left really have the collective military might to stop it. Apocalypse now-ish, anyone?

RedAndCosmoteer

LeftHandofGod ouch i suppose it hasn't been the only time that google translate f***ed up

RedAndCosmoteer

LeftHandofGod

Yeahhh

I prefer Apocalypse Never

going into overdrive

RedAndCosmoteer

LeftHandofGod Oh, um, the Illateri Sovereignty?

Ultranova

LeftHandofGod The R-UPA (@UltraBlast) was targeted and destroyed before it could make planetfall on Taros and Rommel

I don't think that would have actually happened. It would be have been more like this:

Ahem ahem

The R-UPA wouldn't have bothered 😎

In all seriousness, there is a lot of lore that prevents the R-UPA from being used in other realities to do different actions. There's only two realities they're in and that's shrinking to one reality really fast. I don't want to shit on the stuff you've said, so I'll let it fly (and plus, I don't mind the R-UPA fleet being destroyed in alternate realities) but I want it to be made clear right here and now that it's impossible for them to exist in alternate realities.

So, they either take the same actions and get the same results in the alternate reality (which is also impossible) or they simply don't exist. Otherwise, that directly contradicts the timeline Laws Blastial put down to prevent a Second Remastery (I'll tell ya'll about it one day) and the R-UPA taking actions they normally wouldn't take or being manipulated into doing things like this.

Tson

LeftHandofGod
(The DS hasn't existed for about half a year : P )

Fort_Master_Gustav

RedAndCosmoteer Better get back at building that Matrioshka brain boi, seems like you'll need it. There's no more big factions, or great entities, it appears that... things are about to get fun.

RedAndCosmoteer

Fort_Master_Gustav I still am building it, dammit! It's just that I banished my tonal knowledge to a baby universe.

Which I can conveniently open a wormhole to. 😃

Fort_Master_Gustav

RedAndCosmoteer why not develop it all there? and just lie to Drak's faction that it's banished, and when time comes, you assault to the equivalent power that you'd have if it wasn't banished in the first place, that'd make more sense than the big faction just going "Welp imma discard this god-tech cus why not?" and poof it away to davy jone's locker XD

LeftHandofGod

RedAndCosmoteer Waiting for Drak to respond, then we'll get back to the action.

RedAndCosmoteer

Fort_Master_Gustav and poof it away to davy jone's locker

Like how a particularly small group of PT boats sent an entire set of Japanese Freighters to his locker?