Imperial Taiyou Navy's Story

Shimizu remained silent as he listened to the Cybran's response to the declaration the Taiyou had made. The threats that they would crush the Taiyou like insects though, managed to elicit several laughs and quite a few chuckles from the bridge crew. Shimizu however was not amused, but deferred to Admiral Yamamoto on the matter while he sent a coded transmission to the Invictus and the Terrans.

"I understand we have our own differences, however it would be prudent to address the immediate threat before we settle out our own differences. Our aid only applies to the Shintenchi nations, however in prosecuting Cybran aggression, we will offer our immediate assistance." The Prince said before he paused.

"I too find it only too convenient that the Cybran fleet comes here with gestures of goodwill and 'Assistance' so suddenly following this attack, I fear it may only be a false flag to get you to lower your defenses, and invite even more hostility." Shimizu added.

A lieutenant turned, as a trio of Yamato class battleships, and a pair of Shogun Class Battleships moved past the line of ships and over Shintenchi, slowly turning on their Axis before bearing their guns onto the planet's surface. Conventional tungsten-tipped artillery shells were primed and readied.

The first salvo was loosed in brilliant yellow plumes of light, and as the shells entered the atmosphere, they streaked with brilliant yellow lines of light towards the surface as they gained momentum while gravity assisted their velocity.

A second line of Taiyou ships, faced off against the Cybrans, but maintaining their position over Shintenchi space while Yamamoto coordinated the ground defensive.

One of the Shokakus in orbit loosed a small flock of Sudden Transports, which bobbed and weaved among the firing ships. The Nagato itself had already brought it's forward 80cm Guns to bear against the lead Cybran ship, priming tungsten tipped, electrum coated nuclear Anti-Ship rounds. Naginata Cruisers flanked either side, and they began to prime their Shinya Type X torpedoes, each packing enough punch to cripple a ship several times it's size.

Shimizu then brought his transmission over to the Cybrans, running another wide-band communication to the Cybran Fleet.

"Your threats do little more than amuse my crew, I am giving you twenty minutes to leave this space or we will have no choice but to prosecute your fleet with the full force of our Empire. Do not tempt fate, your destruction is not a matter of power, it is a matter of your destiny."

Terminating the communication to the Cybrans, Shimizu re-opened to Mishima, and MacDuff.

"You give the word and we'll light them up, but if they meet assertions of sovereignty with mere threats, then their intentions are clear."

It would seem that incoming fire peppered the Cybrans from all sides, from UCON, Dark Rain, and the Avorians. Though the incoming Artillery had yet to come from every conceivable direction.

Seconds went by before brilliant yellow streaks of light filled the sky from above, and ordinance began to rain down on the Cybran ships in the Astral Sea, tearing their hulls to peaces and engulfing them in brilliant plumes of orange and white flame. No armor in the universe could stop these slugs, as they carried enough velocity to tear metal, ship, and rock asunder from orbit. With each impact water and metal vaporized in brilliant plumes of steam, and mere seconds after the first volley, the second followed.

Just east of the Cybran fleet, the Taiyou fleet had finally arrived, with the full force of everything the Taiyou had sent to Losenji. A fleet of fifteen Taiyou capital ships chugged their way towards the battle, with the Shokaku Class Carrier, the Zuikaku Class Carrier and the Shogun battleships, along with the support craft of the Taiyou Fleet.

Commandant Katamura watched as the Cybrans continued to shell the Volarian coastline, alarms blaring as the ship launched it's complment of Aircraft, Jet Tengu alongside Jigabachi AV Attack helicopters moved fourth from the Aircraft carriers, burning at full speed towards the Cybran fleet, which was still being subject to orbital shelling from the Taiyou fleet in orbit.

The nuclear warheads speed towards the Volarian coastline, but something caused them to suddenly turn course--

They were heading right for the Cybran fleet in the water.

Katamura watched the spectacle unfold, before she sent a wide-band message to all allied forces in the area.

"All Friendlies, All friendlies, this is Commandant Katamura, we have nuclears in the field, all friendlies brace for Nuclear detonation, it's about to get really hairy out there!"

The missiles, shells, and other warheads screamed towards the Cybran fleet, and would detonate near or at where they had launched from. The unseen force having diverted their course away from the Volarian coastline.

With the task completed, beads of sweat formed on the young girl's brow. "They will all pay!" She growled, and then she concentrated, and the water and even the Shokaku Carrier buckled and rocked from the sheer power being put fourth by this one child.

The Central Command ship would likely and suddenly find itself being lifted out from the water, literally carried from the water by an unseen force. The Shelling continued and would tear gigantic craters into armored hulls, and as the Central Command ship rose in altitude, the lone figure would find her nose and ears bleeding as she let out an inhuman scream.

There was a deafening snap, a sudden twitch from Yuriko, and a shockwave that split the very seas apart as the Command unit would more than likely literally be rend in two by the sheer power of the Psionic energies being exerted upon it, as if it was a piece of paper torn asunder by a pair of large hands, it was then, and only then the Command ship was allowed to freefall back into the water to sink to it's watery grave. The young girl fell to her knees, and vomited violently onto the deck of the Kaze no Tani.

As one of the volarian transports touched down Kim and her 10 man squad poured out around the landing zone. The cybrans were attacking and she and her squad needed to get into their defensive positions. She had a small supply of anti tank rocket launchers, and two heavy machine guns and a two man mortar her team was ready for defense. She felt she had a wide verse of weapons.

Before she and her squad could move out though they received the imminent detonation warning and all of them dropped to the ground bracing for impact. Kim closed her eyes as explosions could be heard far off. When she finally looked up she could see several mushroom like clouds over the ocean.

She waited a moment before her training kicked in again. "Alright enough staring we are still under attack, we need to double time it to set up in this equipment!" She shouted as she lead the way toward the fishing village. Rhino squad was quick to get to work as two soldiers ran forwards and dropped two ground breaching charges. They ran back and then the things detonated. They were the answer to quick trench building as a large trench resulted from the carefully calibrated devices which ejected their charges downward rather than outward.

The squad began to set up in the trench as they waited for the cybran attack. Her group had blown their trench right between two of the shacks facing the cliffs of the unattacked village. She placed the machine gun teams in the shacks and the moarter and the rest of the troops in the trench. She was confident in their positions for now but she wasn't exactly sure what would come over the cliff.

Bludgeon, 832nd Marine Armored Company, Objective March-13

"Hurry up you gagglefuck of a platoon, you're all too stupid to live forever!"

The Master Sergeant's harrowing voice called out across the strongpoint bisecting the tiny ribbon of coastal road that reached away from the enemy beachhead. Just barely a meter behind him the platoons CP, or Command Point, let out a wailing siren as the large radio mast was slowly brought down and fit to the sides of a GV-70 logistics vehicle. Shouts and calls went out across the platoons positions, large Vee formations on eiher side of the road, interlocking it and then stretching well over 2km to either side.

This formation was known as the "Biko Ambush" or the "Biko Bush", named so after the Bushmen counter-insurgent forces of the Forge who had minted the maneuver. A tactic nearly three centuries old but still as useful as ever in warfare.

These formations made head on assaults particularly costly through the defenses-in-depth, where instead of all forces are dedicated to maintaining a single line, commanders utilize successive defense lines to simply grind the enemy down until no advances can be made.

Outflanking these formations, tactically at least, meant that the opposing forces were merely exchanging one frontal assault on their objective for another. To nullify this maneuver, the entire attacking force would have to change its axis of advance, strategically recognized as a difficult change when under fire.

It was in these formations that Bludgeon company waited, their armored vehicles and tanks dug into the rear-areas defenses with infantry and other fighting vehicles at the front. With tanks held in reserve, amy infantry breakthrough could then be concentrated against will the full power of those armored reserves.

After looking at what was happening around them, and with the masses of reinforcements forcing their way in to attack the Cybran forces, Godheart decided to pull out all along the coast, the entire army turning to go back under the sea in order to teleport away. This was only the start of war he thought as he turned his lower half of the ACU and walked back into the waters, firing with everything he had in order to get as much forces as he could away from the cliffs and Volaria itself. They were already losing to an enemy that they had never thought existed, and the true might of all the forces in the area was what made them pull away. Those lands would be attacked again, some day.

"Captain Mishima, we came here before in order to receive your agent who was working to try and discover if that planet was where the Old Order was hiding. The last words we got from him was not too long ago with the message that they were in matter of fact hiding in your vast oceans. I can see from the scanners that they have started to construct a fort of sort within an set of three islands. We are offering to assist but can easily leave if you do not want assistance, but I promise you that you will lose the war once that base on online and ready. I can also say that we will not be the only ones wanting revenge on the Old Order. Nor will we be the last." Nicole Reinhardt sighed before cutting off the screen once more with a simple movement across her neck with her hand to the comms officer. She then carefully turned and looked over that the sensors and the tactical officers as they started to display things on the massive desk, "Put all shields up to full power, don't let anything through." She turned to face the two officers as Luis joined them, "How is that base? When will it be online?"

The sensors officer sighed as a sign of remorse, "Little more that an hour. I suspect that the Old Order have already put up the nuclear weapons online, as we have shot down a salvo. I have the feeling they could try and destroy everything that is on the planet-"

"I have fleet 25 here. There should arrive in t-minus three minutes in this sector." Called out the comms officer with a few nods from the other officers and crew members.

"Right. The main question is then, do we show the might of this fleet or do we stand down and look like idiots trying to start a war with everyone?" Sighed Luis as he looked at the Admiral.

"I think the last fleet to enter this sector has already done the latter and has not told anyone."

ITN Nagato
Yamato Class Battleship
1st Imperial Armada
Operation Tetsu no ken

The Taiyou flagship lurched forward as it sailed through the event horizon of the Hyperspace window. As it lurched and came to a stop, the distant Chemias system loomed before them. Admiral Yamamoto studied it, observed it, watched in silence as the battles and events unfolded in front of him.

Crown Prince Shimizu stood in silence behind the Admiral. The authorization for an all out and crippling surprise attack had been given. The juggernaut Taiyou war machine was churning forward on the small cluster of systems that was Cybran space.

Taiyou crewmen worked diligently as the rest of the fleet came out of Hyperspace in a broad formation that spanned several AU from the tip of the spear, to the rear echelons. 150,000 Taiyou combat ships, and 300,000 logistical tenders and support ships remained in a formation that could span an entire star system.

The tension was thick and the air was heavy with anticipation as the Admiral watched the events unfold. "Friendlies and neutrals are in the system, Admiral." A Lieutenant reported, turning to face the Admiral. "Mind friendly and neutral targets." He reported, while the juggernaut Taiyou fleet approached.

Shimizu remained silent, before offering the Admiral a silent nod.

Yamamoto too nodded, then nodded to his command officer.

"Begin the attack."

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ITN Ryūhō
Shokaku Class Carrier
Commander Yusuke Aikawa

The Taiyou commander received the word from the Nagato, and he watched the displays as several Carriers prepared their fighters for launch.

"Industrial and Moored Military targets, Ports, Roads, and any logistical devices the Cybrans may field. Complete surprise." The Commander ordered, and once the signals were broadcast, each Taiyou ship began to launch their complement of Torpedo bombers, long range strategic bombers, fighter craft, Jet Tengu, and Sudden Transports, millions of these craft began to soar towards the Chemias system, mapping and plotting across an entire solar system's worth of space.

One by one the fighters engaged their Interplanetary drives, and flickered out in a whimper of quantum energies, only to jump in across the Chemias system, fanning out amidst SEC, Dark Rain, and Cybran ships, the smaller Taiyou fighter craft spread out to do their work.

"Target the Cybran ships, leave none standing!" The Pilot called out from his Fugaku class heavy bomber, which soared through flak, exploding shells, and energy weapons discharge to deliver it's initial payload. A Cybran Battleship would likely be cracked in two as the Quantum warhead detonated across it's hull, causing a wink in space and time and tearing the ship asunder.

Brilliant white and yellow explosions of this magnitude ripped across the Cybran fleet as Taiyou fighters, bombers and other strike craft bobbed and weaved around weapons fire. Some of them took hits, and went down in a fiery storm, but for every Fighter, or Bomber the Cybrans managed to destroy, ten thousand took it's place. It seemed that there were millions, if not tens of millions of fighter signatures popping up across the scanners of all three systems while Taiyou fighters, and bombers bobbed and weaved through weapons fire, ignoring SEC and Dark Rain Signatures, and going straight for the Cybran ships, and the Cybran Shipyards.

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Across the Chemias System

The Taiyou attack was swift as it was overwhelming, with millions of small fighters moving about through the system one thing was clear. These newcomers were targeting Civilian, Logistical, and Industrial targets as well as moored ships, space stations and anything from factories to ship yards. Moving to bomb them through overwhelming numbers, as it seemed that Taiyou ships just kept coming.

The whole solar system was suddenly alight in destruction, as the Taiyou surprise attack was carried out across the Entire star system. The Cybran fleet would be spread thin to deal with these threats all at once.

The SEC and Dark Rain, as well as the Taiyou ships would receive a message from the Commander of the first wave.

"Tora! Tora! Tora!"

The Cybrans would have been caught completely by surprise.

Among the fighters being fielded by the Taiyou, there were many that were being piloted by Volarians - avorians in particular. Though the number of Volarians was dwarfed by the sheer quantity of Taiyou flooding the Chemias System, they were well capable of pulling their weight out there. While humans had to learn to fly, avorians did so instinctively, and they had a natural aptitude as pilots that surpassed that of most flightless species.

Avantia had wasted little in capitalizing upon this aptitude, and many of the avorian pilots on the field today had been trained to handle the Taiyou vessels at Taiyou military academies.

HDS Resnao,
Combined Fleet,
Nations: Cybran Nation
Griosa
Hydrian


"Alle Kämpfer outbound, sind die Kreuzer bereit sowie die Träger warten auf Ihre Aufträge, wir sind bereit, Sir!" Came a sharp call from the Hydrian officer at the comms of the Cybran Mega Dreadnought. The entire ship was at high alert as it came out the jump from Hyperspace. The massive ship, almost the size of a star had a number of counter gravity well ships around it to counter the intense gravity of the Dreadnought. The Combined fleet around one million ships strong and with over one hundred thousand supporting ships hovering in Hyperspace, this was going to be war. The vast ship was already starting to fire the thousands of heavy Railguns and the millions of smaller Helldrake cannons onto the enemy lines. The rest of the fleet appears on the other side of the system with a couple of other battlefleets arriving. Now the numbers were on the Cybran's terms with a number of other Nations that nobody had seen before. The vast dreadnoughts that joined the battle were massive, but were all dwarfed by the most powerful ship that any nations would have seen.

The ion cannons on the planets started firing quickly with a heavy railgun being brought into order. The massive SAMs on ground opened fire at anything came close to the planet it.

"Sir die gesamte Flotte für Aufträge warten jetzt."

"Das ist für mich in Ordnung, jetzt bekommen Sie Ihre Schiffe bereit und nutzen Sie die anderen Nation Schiffe bereit. Ich will diese Flotten um sie herum, dann werden wir sehen, wer der Chef ist. Holen Sie sich die Fabrik Schiffe in Ordnung, ich war ihnen produzieren Abfangjäger und Bomber in Masse Zahlen." Came a call back from the Supreme Commander as he sat on his command throne.

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The massed amount of Cybrans now surrounded the system and when the command was giving, they launched their attack, something that would cripple even the biggest of Nations. As this was, it was home defense of all the Nations in this part of the Multiverse. All combining with the Cybrans who after the old order fell had started to let each old Nation reform. The entire fleet now pushed inwards towards the Taiyou. Each nation putting its own ships to its own attack. The attack by the Taiyou was nothing compared to this.

The massive amounts of Cybrans was troublesome but sheer numbers didn't matter at this point. Not to the Enterprises Naval Commanders they had something else this was a combined operation. As the other nations all arrived Admiral Teller decided to send a coded response to the Dark Rain."

"Admiral Killigan, This is Admiral Teller Thank you for the support you have arrived just in time though it looks like we have some trouble ahead of us. I have a relief force on the way but I doubt they will add much to our numbers. " He said as he looked at the incoming reports he paused after sending his transmission.

"Get high command on the line we are going to have to pull from the corporate stockpile have them Link up with Tarin and get them here Asap I want our experimental units if they have a crew ready." He ordered

As he said this second fleet was arriving. It was larger than first fleet by far but it was only around 10,000 ships strong. The second fleet fell information with first and the call sign was changed to represent the combined fleet force.

Around the fleet special shield generator ships began to activate their Primary defensive systems as they provided a primary screen for the entire combined fleet. Transports Were unloading defensive satellites to place with the fleet and fast attack ships began to drop thermonuclear mines around the perimeter. Carriers began to deploy their fighter and bomber squadrons as well for now the fleet remained mostly stationary as they prepared to unleash their payloads. Weapons were being primed.

But this was not all of second fleet somewhere in the darkness of the battle lurked multiple Shark class torpedo ships. These ships had standard cloaking devices and were specialized for picking off precise targets with their nuclear and plasma torpedoes."

"Taiyou force Leaders this is Admiral Teller we appreciate the timeliness of your assault. We will move to support your forces if you need us to."

Whisker beaming transmissions to the SEC and Taiyou, Killigan was brief in light of the new arrival of Cybran ships, if somewhat disgruntled that his ships were now swimming in friendlies and enemies.

To the SEC: "Given the new arrivals, if you've got ships between us and that behemoth, advise you clear our firing lanes. Heavy ordinance deploying in three minutes, repeat heavy ordinance in three. If you need cover from enemy fire, enter our formation, and we'll guide you to the safe zones. You do NOT want to be in an Abyss firing vector. Killigan over."

To the Taiyou: "Admiral Killigan to Taiyou Commander, can you kindly clear your ships from direct shots to the new arrivals? We'll take the big boy, but I need clear fire paths. Heavy Ordinance in three minutes. Formation wheeling starting now."

With greater maneuverability than ships that size normally demonstrated, the UDW dreadnaught and her hypercruiser escort turned, aligning together to center their bows on the Cybran Dreadnaught. The heavy bores of every large scale Abyss on each vessel aligned straight forward, and the primary, central Abyss of the capital ships opened its core seal. Deuterium cores were loaded into the firing chambers, as finally the missiles and torpedoes of Taskforce Reaper prepped for launch. Broadcasting precise coordinates of each ship's lanes to the Taiyou and SEC fleets, they stretched the three minute warning mark to four, allowing the allied fleets to clear the path.

Killigan broadcast the final timer. "Fire in Ten. Nine. Eight. Seven. Six. Five. Four..."

"Three." High power lasers prepped charges from their capicitors with deep thrums.
"Two." Initial volley torpedoes slid into ready launch positions.
"One." Breaths were held.

"Fire Plan Pinpoint. Firing."

As one, the full might of the 325 Abyss cannons of the Taskforce unleashed their mightiest fire, the lances converging into a cone to strike at one, precise point on the Cybran Dreadnaught, carrying a combined weight of 67.71 teratons of energy that would strike simultaneously. The nuclear fury of over 67 million megatons, a demonstration of combined power so simply brutal that it was shocking. And Dark Rain wasn't leaving it at that. In the wake of the Abysses, thousands of Jester Missiles and hundreds of Nova torpedoes tore through space at high velocity, the former covering the latter with short range EM jamming and sensor ghosts, while the latter carried quarkium warheads with a 200 gigaton punch behind them. With distance, they would arrive almost 15 seconds behind the Abyss volley, a total of 300 torpedoes masked by nearly 4000 missiles.

As Dark Rain liked to say, power is relative to how it's wielded.

The entire attack was completely worthless against the shields on the massive Cybran Ultra Dreadnought. It's own defensive systems and engineers laughing as the Dark Rainseemed to try everything to stop it. The great shields let a few missiles in just to be destroyed by the defensive systems. The entire command bridge laughed happily and set to unleash hell. The entire fleet around the three others started firing, sending an unknown amount of missiles, torpedoes, and thermo nuclear shells down range. The Cybran fleet did the same while the heavy Dreadnoughts set up for their version of an Abyss cannon firing. The Hydica cannons, which developed a small black hole for a matter of a few seconds were placed into action. The cannons fired their rounds on a charge of 50 seconds. The shells fired into hyperspace, giving the appearance of the shells disappearing within their own shields before they popped out and started going off.

The rest of the battle group moved in for the kill, thousands of battleships pushed forwards, their weapons armed. They started going all out, sending bright lance and heavy lasers down range into the enemy while the factory ships launched thousands of squadrons of fighters with the carriers adding to that.

As death flowed through the void like a drowning flood, its Master followed suit. Thanatos, cloaked in tattered and torn black robes, roamed the irradiated battlefield that raged above the planet. His jagged bone-white fingers loosely gripped a sinister razor sharp scythe. An ornate hourglass hung from the scythe's neck. Sand trickled into the lower chamber.

Death had come to claim his prize, and this was a bountiful harvest.

Tahir observed the battle silently from aboard the Taiyou flagship, having accompanied Shimizu's fleet at the personal request of Avantia. It wasn't until the Cybran Ultra Dreadnaught shrugged off the attacks from the Dark Rain vessel that he joined the conflict though.

Staring blindly ahead the tattoos along his arms and face lit up to match the golden hue of his irises as he projected himself across to the massive Cybran vessel. From the perspective of the Cybrans, Tahir simply manifested in the center of their command bridge.

Once more the avorian soldier bore witness to the despicable nature of the Cybrans, and it was with utter disdain that he looked upon the Supreme Commander. Their laughter that rang out through the command bridge was the mark of insanity, and it was not from any one individual that it came. Where there might have been pity or even forgiveness in Tahir for these people, there was now only disgust. When he spoke his lips did not move as his voice filled the command bridge.

"Are you Cybrans truly so loathsome that when faced with war, and the deaths of millions, your response is to laugh?" he asked.

These Cybrans all seemed to share a sickness of the mind. Old or new, they were all the same.

"The Cybran people are nothing more than a plague."

The Cybrans might believe themselves safe behind their shields and their guns, but the nature of technology is that generally speaking every piece and part had its place and purpose. When you take one out, the whole thing ceases to function.

Tahir hadn't needed to manifest himself aboard the vessel to do what he was about to do, but he wanted to look the Supreme Commander in the eye before he unleashed his wrath.

An unyielding and unwavering surge of psionic energy flooded the command bridge as Tahir let loose in a torrential storm of merciless retribution. He hit the shield generators and combat stations first, severing wiring and dislodging cables with acute psionic precision. Key components were crushed, complex gears were being dismantled into their individual parts, and explosive weaponry detonated within his telekinetic grasp with little regard to the electrical surges and explosions it would cause all throughout the ship's various stations. The vessel's shields would provide little protection from the damage that their own weapons would wreck from the interior of the ship.

The command center was subject to his retribution as well and the systems would rapidly malfunction as he began to tear through the internal wiring and mechanics, dislodging drives and leaving swaths of sparking machinery and system failures.

The UDW fleet answered this failed assault to bring down the shield with an absolutely vicious counter-response. Each vessel began to issue the full force of its cyber-warfare capabilities into play, jamming and redirecting missiles with ghost signatures, direct hacks, pulses of ionic blasts to generate small EMP fields, and stealth functions. Shields flared as they diffused and reflected laser impacts, deflecting the beams of energy against fields engineered to handle at least half of their own primary Abyss weapons. Abysses flashed off, sending beams of hellish destruction to kill hundreds of fighters and dozens of smaller Cybran vessels with single bolts, the lighter Abysses coming into play striking the black hole shells a moment before the deadly rounds could emit their payloads. The seventeen capital ships maneuvered smoothly, their motions trading hits off of shields, diffusing the overall punishment each received, screening the small SEC vessels from the most brutal of the fire.

On each bridge, its crew lay on their crash couches, eyes closed with looks of hard concentration on their faces, deep in the neural link between the ships' AIs. The fusion allowed for the simply near perfect storm of destruction and coordination between the the hypercarriers and the dreadnaught, human ingenuity and instinct merging with the hypercomputational power and perception of time of the AIs.

Additionally, a new factor came into play. Nearby Cybran vessels were subjected to titanic spectral hammerings, fighters literally torn apart, corvettes, frigates, destroyers, battleships, and carriers splitting hull plates and suffering massive internal explosions, the invisible forces of the Agents aboard each vessel sealed within their Magnification Chambers, linked through the telepaths in their ranks to coordinate in the psionic method their bridge staff were communing. The chambers acted as superconductors on their phantom minds, turning a simple hammerblow into a titan's fist, a electrical arc into an ionic storm, a fireball into a powerful multi-ton explosion. Those aboard the hypercarriers engaged the enemy fleet with sheer focus, adding to the crippling fire of the titanic Abysses, the missiles screaming through space in their thousands, point defense clusters spitting fire and fury with cyclonic rates of fire, the other assorted weaponry of the UDW fleet locking on and unleash a ravenous storm of precision, high power fire into the Cybran ranks, reaping a toll that was simply horrific in its extremity.

While those psionics aboard the Kronos worked in tandem, grasping and defusing the black hole shells that evaded destruction, remotely rewiring the devices and hurling them into the face of the Mega-Dreadnaught, the revised devices instead generating powerful twisting fields of gravity to rip into and through the shield guarding the titan from their fury, attempting to wrest the armor from the behemoth so that it could experience the pain of the directed fury of the fleet.

The scene of Rain's fight was appalling, brilliant plates of shielding flaring into existence to ward off the directed fire while thousands of lances of light, the burning stars of hyperkinetic slugs, the comet tails of missiles and torpedoes, and the menacing, invisible assault of its psionics performed one simple act.

Killing Cybran ships in the hundreds, and then the thousands.

The Taiyou had not finished their assault, not even close. Though the Cybrans were reeling yet managed to hold from the initial attack, the Taiyou continued to press their assault, while Fighters and bombers continued to bob and weave through the heavy ordinance.

There was a massive fluctuation in space and time, a sudden wormhole torn through the very fabric of space which belched light, and jetted out ionized gasses. A massive 250 Kilometer long cylindrical shaped vessel slung fourth roughly 7 AU from the Superdreadnought the Cybrans were fielding.

"Hyperspace jump complete, initializing VX transformation." A Taiyou commander reported as Admiral Yamamoto nodded silently. "Initialize VX Transformation and report back to me." Yamamoto called out.

Slowly the ship began to transform, the top portion of the cylindrical hull opened up and retracted, two massive rings unfurling like a butterfly's ring and assembling. Both rings fed into an elongated yet slender barrel, which too began to unfurl in brilliant and shimmering flashes of green. Extending an additional 50km to bring the massive Taiyou weapon to a staggering 300 Kilometers in length from bow to stern.

It was at this point Taiyou units began to withdraw from their attack runs. To the Cybrans it seemed they had managed to Deter the Taiyou units as they turned tail and began to withdraw.

"Attention all friendlies, this is Admiral Yamamoto, you are ordered to withdraw to a minimum safe distance of 5 Astronomical Units from the Cybran Battlestation."

The Massive craft continued to unfurl, while two massive fusion reactors deployed along the length of the vessel.

"Admiral." A lieutenant called out.

"Hadron Cannon is initializing primary countdown to deployment." He reported, and a clock flickered on the screen.

"15:00"

"Hadron Cannon countdown T-Minus Fifteen minutes..." The PA Announced.

Admiral Teller watched as things began to spiral out of control. He knew he could have more reinforcements on the way or he could call in his special reserve units but instead he waited and watched everything unfold slowly he turned ot his science officer. " Get me the damage out puts that are expected from this attack."

Suddenly he read a simple message from the president. He didn't like it but he had his orders. "Open a comm to all the forces in this system." He said almost quietly he knew Holiday was receiving live updates but also that she had another idea in mind for this outcome but he doubted this would ever work no one was going to listen to him it was too late.


"ATTENTION ALL FORCES IN THE AREA THIS IS ADMIRAL CHARLES TELLER REQUESTING A CEASEFIRE OF ALL FORCES IN THE SYSTEM."

He made his message clear but he sighed. "I want a coordinated Emergency FTL jump planned if that weapon goes off is going to go off. Put the fleet on orders to only shoot cybran vessels that are posing an clear and present danger until I receive further orders from back home."

The Cybran Military machine was only just starting to warm up. Entire Regiments loaded on the teleporters, starting to beam off to the ships of the enemy while the Commander of the Ultra Dreadnought, the HDS Resnao grunted, watching the attack on his ship. He swallowed before standing up, "Release the wonder weapon."

His officers nodded and with a few seconds, a massive hole started to form on the Resnao's front armour, the giant hole revealing one of the Wonder weapons designed back on Casgrax II. It was mainly just a targeting system with advanced systems while the main cannon was on a planet in a far solar system. The Commander nodded with a smile, "Let them have it." The massive ships groaned under the tension before unleashing another wave of it's shells.

It was after the shells had fired that the SEC commander had tried to call for a ceasefire. The Cybran Commander little more than laughed, before he stopped, "Don't tell them to fire until I say. How long will the shells take in Hyperspace?"

"About three minutes at most, but it will take a further to for the station to be ready."

"Tell them to get ready then."

"Sir."

Given the apparent lack of any effort to stop Tahir from destroying the Ultra Dreadnaught - or the command station aboard it - the efforts had likely been successful and the Cybran Commander would likely find that not only was the targeting system of the 'wonder weapon' unable to open due to the now damaged and destroyed weapon systems, most of the ship's commands would be unresponsive now on account of being nothing more than a mangled mess of sparking wire and folded metal. Transmissions would likely no longer be working either, as the command station would no longer be in any state of functionability with its systems disrupted. Again since none had seemingly made any effort to stop Tahir from destroying the ship, it was likely that the shields had been taken out by his attacks, leaving it vulnerable on the exterior to enemy fire, but the real damage came from the detonation of the weapons aboard it that tore through the interior with relentless fury.

With the targeting system of the cannon non-functional the ship would be unable to direct the distant weapon - and their own ship was likely dead in the water, if not outright destroyed from the detonation of their own weapons aboard it.

With that matter completed - if the ship was still marginally intact - Tahir turned his attentions on the Commander himself now who had apparently disregarded his earlier appearance while he systemically destroyed the command station along with the rest of the ship. His golden eyes flicked to the side before a hail of broken metal and heavy panels from the destroyed command station were sent hurtling through the air to batter and skewer the man.

The UDW fleet's reaping was simply horrific, there was no other word for the wholesale massacre the combined might of the sixteen hypercruisers, the thousands of fighters, and the deadly dreadnaught. For every pilot they lost, they harvested entire squadrons of Cybran fighters, for every breach in a shield and minor hit on the heavy Luminaran hull plates, they slaughtered multiple escorts, destroyers, and smaller capitals. Illuminated more brightly than a sun by the sheer weight of Abyss fire, plasma lancer bolts, missile and torpedo detonations, and the cataclysmic eruption of enemy ships, the battlegroup was a terrifying sight to behold, harbingers of death that wheeled in tight formations, still trading positions to maximize the life of shields and keeping their monstrous hulls between the ocean of the enemy and the ships of their allies.

The Agency support was beginning to show on the Cybran forces, as suddenly the returned weapons of the enemy began to blister and peel the surface of the Mega Dreadnaught, wounding the massive beast and allowing the ships they operated from to add their fire to the mass, ripping deep gouges in the surface of the titanic ship. Onboard, however, though faces were set grim, orders were being conveyed.

Sever power to the capacitors on the shields. Align for maximum coverage against the Taiyou weapon being deployed, then all available power to secondary, tertiary, and quadratic capacitors. Countdown synced, on T-1 all power to shields and damage control. Agents, keep these ships as much together as you can.

Killigan grimaced in his reclined position as the acknowledgements worked back to him over the neural link, sending a wide band transmission back to the Taiyou flagship. His image would appear if they could receive, the digital image showing utter calm as he answered the warning. "Apologies Admiral Yamamoto, but due to the circumstances, we will not leave the SEC fleet in the danger zone. You may fire when ready. Godspeed, and hit these bastards."

After that transmission had launched, he turned to the SEC ships, launching a second, whisker beam transmission. "SEC commander, SEC commander, if you can't run by the time-up on the Taiyou countdown, get as close to our backs as you can. Shifting into maximum coverage, heavy fire coming shortly."

Once that message had been sent, the Admiral triggered his own fleetwide comms. "Ladies and Gentleman of the Dark Rain. Why am I still seeing garbage in this sector of space?"

The battlegroup's fire doubled in intensity.

Admiral Teller watched the battle as he listened to the comm from the UDW commander. "Copy that Moving my fleet behind you now." Teller said as the ships changed their vector to move behind the massive hypercrusiers.

But as the ships fell into position the Cybrans had begun to teleport and chaos seemed to erupt on the bridge. "Admiral I am getting a flood of reports of enemy boarding it looks like teleports sir." An officer said in a concerned tone.

"Seal the bridge and scramble the marines and security drones activate a fleet wide alert to move into internal defense procedures." He said pausing to turn to his science officer. "I need a solution on the double we need to stop these guys.

He said as the officer began to furiously crunch some numbers. "Well sir I have one idea it won't keep them from coming but it could trap them here given enough time to tinker with the ESF I could manipulate it to block teleports on but blocking their teleportation off is relatively simple and I can activate immediately."

"Do it and get to it get the other science officers working on quick fixes too." He said as he was startled by gunfire on the bridge as troops opened fire on teleporting Cybrans defensive turrets on the ceiling deployed and tore into any unregistered beings or drones.
Aboard other ships a similar process was happening as a combination of Turrets, combat security droids and armored marines began to defend the ships. Most used stun weapons to keep from damaging the ships but when necessary they didn't hesitate to use deadly force.

ITN Kagome
Naginata class Cruiser
Captain Ryusuke Mishima

The lone Taiyou Naginata cruiser had been sitting in orbit for several minutes, silently and rather unobtrusively listening to the exchange between the unknown ship in orbit, and the Volarian authorities down in the surface and around the Planet.

Captain Mishima canted his head at the exchange, and after a series of bitstream codes were exchanged between the Naginata, and the Nagato halfway across the Galaxy, clearance was given and the Captain turned to stare out the bridge window at the strange ship.

"Gyorai o tanoshimini junbi shimasu.." He ordered, and the bridge crew nodded.

"Hai." They replied.

The engines of the Taiyou cruiser ignited, and began to push the cruiser forwards towards the unknown ship, two bays on the nose of the ship sliding open as it moved ever closer to the unidentified ship.

"Michi no fune wa gyorai no han'i-naidearu." The Helm Officer stated.

"Hijō ni yoi." Captain Mishima added, as he leaned forward, the small dot of the other ship slowly growing as the Taiyou Naginata began to rapidly close the distance.

"Utē!." The Captain shouted, and the Bridge crew worked as lights faded to red, and the Naginata banked a wide arc to the right, unleashing a pair of Shinya Type-X torpedos, these specialized torpedoes were coated in a special electrum alloy, allowing them to broadcast a specialized conductivity field which allowed them to bypass shields, their shaped charge warhead would likely tear armor plate and ship hull asunder in one brilliant explosion.

Both torpedoes careened towards their target, guided remotely by the Naginata, which meant evasive action would be to no avail, as the Torpedos maneuvered and moved to close in on it's target, should they impact, both torpedoes would light the ship up in a brilliant explosion, almost akin to a small star, and likely turn it to wrecked slag which would be spread out across space.

The control panel began to flash and an alarm sounded. Patraeko glanced at the panel to notice that torpedoes had been fired at he ship. "Huh? What was that for?" Patraeko wonders to himself.

The 3 back engines of the ship powered up, causing them to glow a bluish colour. Patraeko drove the ship forward at max speed. The speed of the ship was intense, as soon as the engines fired up, the ship zoomed across the space. Taking the route of passing around the Taiyou ships and heading down to Shintenchi.

The Captain growled slightly as he saw the ship light it's thrusters to try and evade the torpedos that quickly adjusted their trajectory to pursue the fleeing ship, which came close to speeding past the Naginata Cruiser.

The Captain cursed under his breath, then he shouted. "Denshi-sen o tenkai!" He barked, and the Naginata turned on it's axis as several technicians clattered on keyboards. Patraeko would soon likely find that his controls were beginning to lock up, the computer unresponsive and the ship coming to a sudden and abrupt halt. As the Naginata initiated electronic warfare.

This meant that the torpedoes would be rapidly gaining, as well as the Naginata. A myriad of computer code piggybacked on a distress signal that was proxied to originate from Kyle and Vladamir alongside another series of malicious codes piggybacked on a bitstream data signal broadcasted through navigation and communication would quickly begin to spread, defying firewalls, antivirus software, and corrupting everything from engines, to navigation, to even life support. All this happened in a span of milliseconds, and the disabled ship, now likely caught within Terra's gravity well, would be disabled and slowly freefalling.

As the Naginata closed in, Torpedoes in front of it, the Captain turned to his weapons officer.

"Dekki jū o akutibu ni shimasu." He called out.

The control panel shut down, causing Patraeko to curse to himself. "These guys think they can shut down shadonian tech? Good thing I know how these things work". Patraeko's robotic arm changed shape. The hand turned into a series of wires, he opened the maintenance hatch of the control panel and held his wired hand to the insides of the panel. It wasn't long until he managed to repair damage to the electronics and brought the ship back to life.

Once the engines came back online, Patraeko turned the ship around. Instead of fleeing he flew towards the torpedoes. He fired lasers from the multifunctional weapon systems that were connected to the tip of the three wings that form the three corners of a triangle at the torpedoes to destroy them. One by one his immaculate aim destroyed the torpedoes. He flew to the ship which was perusing him and drove circles around it at amazing speeds.
"What was that for? I showed you no threat" Patraeko sent the transmission to the ship, still circling so close that the two ships would scape against each other. A tactic in case any torpedoes survived so thy would hit the large ship instead of Patraeko's.

Patraeko set up 3 other physical holograms of his ship. Designed to seem exactly the same as the real ship. They game of electrical frequencies and other bits of readable information which completely matched the real ship. It would take a lot of scanning and programming to work out the real ship. But they all circled the ship in different patterns to confuse the enemy.