KrankysFirebrand48
The Delta Interdiction indeed proved effective, their weird and unique method of passive interdiction did not prevent flight into, out of or throught the interdiction barriers, but the tool was heavy. Lucky were the GBE ships to warp into an area outside of their interdiction sphere, though the effect was already well pronounced: The fluctuations, though only small on the normal plane, heightened to absurd levels when one propelled himself closer to light speeds, and at FTL speeds, they turned into mountains of madness. The ships going through the bubble were met with such, as if they had FTL'ed through an asteroid field, some had their surfaces shredded, the luckier ones only scrapes on their hull, the unluckier came out of the FTL process as a mess of tangled metal. However, all the fleet was lucky, for if they had FTL'ed into the field, all that would remain of them would be pulverized dust, mangled metal and flesh alike, debris and tangled disorder resulting of the cruel effects of the FTL.
Meanwhile:
One by one the Delta fighters rammed into the enemy's larger ships in suicide movements, their machineguns releasing light puffs of smoke as expanded gas in the vacuum, propelling projectiles in the faint hope of hitting GBE fighters and maximize damage within their seemingly crazy moves. Largely unsucessfull though, but it did not matter nonetheless, for as few fighters that hit them, hit the ships for a devastating effect:
The fighters approached the ships always accelerating, the PD and the GBE fighters were enough to stop some, but not all, as the fighters were now faster than the their enemy's counterparts, seeing as this suicide move cared not about maneuvering. The Delta pilot usually aimed for the center-most portions of the ships, and in the brutal collision, the metal of the fighter hit the ships like a massive bullet, depositing the megaton warhead into its interior, making sure that the subsequent blast sent waves of percussion shaking the ship appart, mangled pieces of metal flying at thousands of meters per second cutting through metal and crew, each fighter's strike was a death sentence in of itself.
But the truth was that this move was, in a double sense, suicidal: The medium ships continued their fire, though the number of fighters and medium ships was dwindling and fast. One by one the fighters suicided to the best of their capability, and the medium ships fell alike, succumbing to missiles that could not be intercepted at time, or cannon shells that struck the ships into a mangled mess, or tore the ships apart, letting the decompression of the vacum do its bidding, undoing whatever life-force drove the vessels.
After some hours of the progressive trope, the vacum of space was once again proverbially quiet, the Delta ships down to the last of their number were decimated, their cannons stopped roaring a while ago. The fighters had all suicided, causing destructon but not enough to defeat their enemy, after some minutes of the defeat of the last of the forces, the interdiction faded out, its randomness slowly fading into normality, and the system lock ships FTL'ed off into somewhere untraceable, throught the same effect.
At last, The Gate stood. They had sucessfully defended against an invasion of the misterious "Deltas", as they were generally called.
...but at what cost? A feeling of unease washed over the forces, though the general aspect was of happyness of the victory, many were killed that day, much was lost on the defense of one of its main planets, and who was to ensure that they wouldn't come back? It was an unknown enemy, the only transmission sent by them was cryptic, not revealing anything of importance, they did not seem to communicate, nor did their forces care about their own life, could they learn much with the debris of their deceased enemy?