>>21875783
Continue capturing communications from the Jovian Federation.

Have 1 of the remaining 9 Protoss Observers we outfitted with special precautions that was snooping around in the ship graveyards warp to Venus. There isn't any fighting there, right?
By getting in that close, it can hopefully get some more information about the fighting in the Inner Planets.

Also, does Black Ops have any presence in the Outer System, at Jupiter's orbit and beyond?

Does Cpl. Jurgovich know of any Black Ops tricks or codes that they use when they're lurking about in a system?

>>21875783

Move a grid of 25 observers spread as a very large shared array telescope to Pluto orbit, see what they can see and how far in, we need to know what the native canon is before we do anything, and/or any crossovers involved.

>>21875842
You don't detect any Black Ops ships around Jupiter, no. Jurgovich can't think of anything like that that would help you right now. He does think that the Black Ops probably went straight for whatever their objective was.

>>21875844
The best the array can do is observe Mars, which has sporadic fighting around it between the Void Engineers and New Chaos. There appears to be a network of colonies there, but they have all long since been abandoned, and most have been ruined by the fighting.

>>21875925

Can we determine what canon said colonies are from? If necessary, dedicate 25 additional observers to the array.

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>>21875925
The Observers are able to get a count on ship signatures around Mars. New Chaos has approximately one hundred ships there while the Void Engineers have half that. However, signals from the planet indicate the Void Engineers have a significant groundside presence, though it doesn't seem like New Chaos or anyone else does.

>>21875954
There are no real identifying marks or styles on the colonies that make them stand apart.

>>21875954
The person in the previous thread who said that the presence of the UEFA was evidence for this being an SRW Canon is wrong; the UEFA is the Canonical Earth Government of Martian Successor Nadesico. So far, all evidence points to this being a pure Nadesico Canon, probably post-movie due to the presence of Knight One.

>>21875991

Might be, but I don't want to rule anything out yet, we need more intel.

Given that even visual observation is being interfered with, I think we might want to take a small risk and move a shared array into towards Earth, warping it in opposite the gas giants orbits and seeing when they can see Earth.

>>21875968
Are we able to ID those ships of New Chaos?

Also, do we have enough sensor resolution that we could acquire transporter coordinate locks on those ships?

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>>21876018
Nope and nope.

You have enough resolution to tell that of those 100 ships, half are frigates, a quarter are cruisers, and a quarter are battleships. The Void Engineer ships are almost uniformly frigates, but they have a small number of extremely large ships supporting them, cylindrical vessels about 15km long.

>>21876012
We know the locals can pierce the cloak on our Observers, so we need to stay the fuck away from Earth and the Moon.

Opening up communications with the Jupiter Federation might be the easiest way to find out what's going on, but we have to deal with their ridiculous society-wide fascination with Gekiganger III and hot-blooded mecha action to solve social ills.

>>21876012
How close?

>>21876153

Where did I ever say we'd be going in closer than even the asteroid belt?

I suggest you re-read my plan, at worst we'd be closing to opposite Jupiter.

>>21876150
What about getting an Observer into Venus orbit? Is there evidence of much fighting there?

>>21876166

Opposite the next closest gas giant, until either we get to Jupiter or we can see Luna/Earth.

Rolled 49, 22, 60, 20 = 151

>>21876172
Not much, no.

>>21876224
Your deploy your array towards Earth...

>>21876392
Your Observers get to Jupiter and still cannot pierce the jamming around Earth and the Moon, though they can get a good view of the space stations and Mars from here. Your recon teams look over the data and quickly deduce that with the tools at your disposal, breaking through the jamming fields is impossible at long range. To find out what's going on around Earth, you'd have to at least be near the moon, and from the moon, Mars.

That being said, from this position, the Observers can manage to track the ship signals around Earth and the Moon. Even if they cannot get precise data on them, this will allow you to track the movements of the fleets.

>>21876497

What can we hear right now? Any encryptions we can't break?

>>21876497
We're still quite a distance away from the system, holding steady at 2.5 LY.
Perhaps we should get closer, and have the Hercules and Spirit begin resourcing operations to build up a stockpile of RU's for when the fighting starts.

We also need to keep an eye on the clock; as soon as the Hiigaran Fighter project is finished (which it should in an hour or two), we need to begin analysis of the Mysterious Cannon.

Finally, we might want to communicate, or hack into, the Jovian Federation to get information on this Canon.

I think we should have the Aurors attempt to scry on the location of the TSAB Recon Team. Have the Oncoming Storm warp out to another position 2.5 LY from Earth, far away from the task force, then have the Aurors attempt the scrying. Have them ready to cut the connection if New Chaos or the Void Engineers tries to backtrack them, and be ready to activate the ship's Psi Shield.

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Rolled 15

>>21876595
The only transmissions active on Mars that you can detect right now are Void Engineers and you can't break their encryption just yet. In space, there are both New Chaos and Void Engineers transmissions, both of which are secure.

>>21876739
You attempt the scrying...

>>21876806

What about Earth and the Moon, you said we could get signals from them.

>>21876806
Your Aurors get a brief glimpse of several TSAB operatives hunkering around a crashed ship on Earth before they feel the psychic presence of something far greater than themselves. Having the Psi-Shield ready is what saves them, the device activating quick enough to allow the Aurors to break the connection without incident.

>>21876821
I said signals, not transmissions. You know where ships are massing, even if you can't get an accurate number or type count.

>>21876838

Oh boy.

Did we get any information on where this ship is?

Looks like its time for a rescue mission.

>>21876838
Were the Aurors able to tell anything about the location, such as approximate location?

We could attempt to use a subspace transport to get VP-98 and VP-99 to the general area of the TSAB operatives.
But I would not recommend using a subspace transport back. And we know that the locals can see through our cloaks, so that idea isn't viable.

>>21876838

Move the Storm on a randomwalk for at least 5 jumps, then back to the fleet.

>>21876838
Have the Storm make at least 6 random jumps of at least 1 light-week each before coming back to the rest of the task force.

Also, have our Observers capturing comm-traffic off of the Jovian colonies determined if they're Jovian Federation or not?

>>21877029
Yes, they're Jovian Federation. The abundance of Gekiganger references makes that abundantly clear even if the leap cannons did not.

>>21876869
>>21876899
No other information. You got a snapshot and that was it.

>>21877029
You manage this without incident.

>>21877069
Have the Aurors use legilimency to insert what they saw into Vitun's mind. Ask him if that's enough for him to attempt an Interplanetary Teleport.

Also, prepare to open a comm channel to the Jovian Federation.
We've got to figure out how we're going to phrase this. Knowing their love of Gekiganger, we'll want to couch it in terms that they'll appreciate.

>>21877069

Run the snapshot through our various computing resources.

Based on the timestamp on the snapshot and the positional data on the earth and sun at that particular time, we can use the length of the shadows to approximate the timezone, and thus the rough location, in which the ship crashed in.

After that based off the snapshot, run the terrain in which the TSAB operatives were seen in and cross-reference it with the possible locations in that timezone, like desert or forest.

>>21877199
You manage to figure out that it's in North America, crashed in the Rocky Mountains somewhere.

It is enough to attempt a teleport. Do you want to try?

>>21877345

As in teleport a team in or teleport the agents out?

>>21877376
http://paizo.com/pathfinderRPG/prd/ultimateMagic/spells/interplanetaryTeleport.html

Teleport down.

>>21877345

I'm voting no, for now. We don't want to provoke the locals and the less known by the VE and NC, the better. I think we need more intel before we move, and when we do, it needs to be for the TSAB operatives AND our primary objective at once, where we then GTFO.

>>21877345
Not just yet. There are preparations we need to do, and the possibility that there are anti-teleportation wards of some kind around the planet; otherwise, why hasn't New Chaos simply invaded with Warp Teleportation?

No, we need to be careful about this.

Ready Vitun with a set of Psi Armor from Tosh, as well as VP-99 and VP-98.

However, it is probably better to talk with the Jovian Federation first and ask why there hasn't been a teleported invasion.

>>21877383

Those agents are stranded behind lines. I'd advocate sending in some of our robotic assets to establish contact and try to get them back safety. Say a HK-50 model and some YVHs.

>>21877401
Getting out without destroying these enemy fleets will mean a greater problem when we try to close the open door. We can't depend on the Great Crusade Task Force because the TSAB containment lines will only hold out for another day, then the New Chaos and Void Engineer forces will break out of the warzone and start rampaging through our sector and into TSAB controlled space.

We are not only on a timer, but we need to destroy as many NC and VE ships here to weaken them and prevent their escape into the rest of the sector.

>>21877496
Sending the droids is all fine and good, but that leaves them without a way to get back to our task force. Vitun is the only one capable of casting Interplanetary Teleport, and using the subspace transport to attempt to beam out an entire team risks their transport signatures getting disrupted. With that many people, a subspace transport is too risky.

>>21877585

I wonder if we can beam one of these things down.

http://homeworld.wikia.com/wiki/Spectre-class_Cloaked_Fighter

Then they can extract themselves.

>>21877688
Not going to work.

First, that's a Homeworld 1 design, not available to our Homeworld 2 shipyard.
Second, it's a space fighter. It has only room for the pilot, and it's not designed to escape a gravity well.
Third, Earth and the Moon are capable of piercing cloaking systems in some fashion, and use area-effect space-time weaponry. This would just get them killed.

>>21877739

I see. Then at least we should inform the TSAB that we found the location of their crashed ship with surviving agent but that we were unable to mount rescue operations. With the location, they might move in themselves.

>>21877404
"Jovian Federation, this is Task Force 38 of the Transpace Guard. We are on the trail of two fleets guilty of crimes in several galaxies. We have tracked them to this star system. Judging from our sensor scans, they are currently in conflict over Earth.
"We are requesting your cooperation in apprehending these criminals and bringing them to justice."

Knowing the Jovian's love of Gekigangar, posing as space cops trying to bring galactic criminals to justice should make them willing to at least listen to us.

>>21877766
>With the location, they might move in themselves.
They already told us that they had to pull everything they had back to their defensive line, which will be breached, according to their optimistic projections, sometime on Day 34, one day from now.

They don't have the resources to mount a rescue.

Also, the fact that the TSAB Recon Team has been here for the past week means that they likely have FAR more intel on this Canon, the course of the fighting between the Void Engineers and New Chaos, and the location of the STOB component than we currently have.

Also, further scrying attempts are dangerous as there is something large and powerful that nearly got to our Aurors and we only escaped because of our Psi Shield.

>>21877778
>guilty of crimes in several galaxies
We should be put up a list of their crimes if we can. And not the "interference in the affairs of a sovereign civilization" or stuff that violates the Prime Directive.

I'm talking about the butchering of defenseless civilian scientists and researchers, the things that they've done to the Cardassians, the death camps of New Syracuse.
If the TSAB has any video footage of worlds devastated by Void Engineer and New Chaos incursions in the warzone, all the better.

We can also include the crime of detonating a Weapon of Mass Destruction, resulting in the escape of many criminal entities that began terrorizing neighboring planets.

Alluding to the similarities between New Chaos and the Kyo'akk Empire (villains of the Gekiganger III series) might also work.

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>>21877778
There is a pause before a response.

"Task Force 38, we are not familiar with your organization, but to hear that these two invaders are criminals is no surprise! They've been fighting on our doorstep for month, going so far as to attempt several invasions we barely repelled! If that were not enough, we found spies infiltrating our cities, attempting to sway us from the path of Justice and set up cults dedicated to their foul gods! What sort of cooperation do you require to bring these monsters to justice? And how do we know you are not in league with them? We've dealt with their trickery before!"

>>21878090

Not sure what we should share, I'm thinking TSAB allies needing rescue, and that there's a component they're fighting over, maybe, and that we'd need cooperation to destroy what we can.

>>21878090
Answering this correctly, is going to be hard.
This is just a suggestion of what to say, because we need to make sure that it's right, and fits in with their societal expectations (of a 70's giant robot show full of hot-blooded shounen action).

"You can help us is by assisting us in contacting the UEFA. A fellow inter-galactic police agency, the TSAB, sent a forward recon team to trail these two fleets, as well as a third fleet. Their ship was shot down over Earth, and we believe them to still be alive. We wish to have assistance in rescuing them.
"As for not being in league with the fighting parties, there is only one way to truly show our dedication, our passion, and our love for Justice! One champion of ours, versus one champion of yours, in single one-on-one combat. Let our burning hot blood answer for us!"

>>21878237
"Let our hot blood OF JUSTICE answer for us"
>FTFY

>>21878237
Yes, we could have Star-Lord or Darius engage in fisticuffs with their commander, to satisfy some nebulous ideal of giant robot shows.
Or, we could have Elaine talk to them. Pure as the driven snow, she is.

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>>21878237
"The UEFA?! Pfah! Those spineless cowards have no idea what true justice is! If your friends are in danger, the only thing to do is mount a massive rescue operation and punch through the fleets around Earth to save them! UEFA BE DAMNED!"

"...Besides, we can't contact them, there's heavy jamming."

"You want a duel? Wonderful suggestion! Send your champion to these coordinates."

A string of coordinates follows.

>>21878090
"A heart burning with courage will bring justice on evil's head!"

>>21878514

Char or Crowe?

This will be a combat by giant robot.

>>21878514

While we appreciate the idea of burning justice and ignoring those who do not see it, we cannot in good conscience see you and the UEFA fighting.

At least not in these circumstances.

If you can provide us with UEFA communications protocols, though, we can attempt to establish a command circuit and set up a coordinated attack.

As for the duel, in what manner of contest is it, we don't want to sent a martial arts champion to a mecha battle, after all.

>>21878514
"Okay. Char, Crowe, Lt. Yamada. One of you is going to have to take the role of being a hot-blooded mech pilot who gains an understanding of their foe through the medium of exchanging physical blows. This is the going to be full of terrible, hammy acting, and scripts taped to the insides of your cockpits.
"So! Who wants a first crack at this?"

>>21878553

I wonder if char would take umbrage against us dressing him in Neo-Zeon dress uniform and presenting him as the field commander for our Mobile Forces.

>>21878639
Char might, but we have Lt Quattro Bajeena. I'm sure he wouldn't have any objections.

>>21878514
Alright, so, let's go to the coordinates.
Not the entire task force; I'm thinking just a pair of Al'Kesh, the Rodger Young, and a Repair Frigate. We don't want the Storm getting into sensor range of the sporadic VE and NC patrols in the Jovian region until we're ready to tear them apart.

We'll want to be ready for whatever type of conflict they want, whether it's mecha fight or boxing match. And Lyla and Elaine on hand to be ready to heal damage.

>>21878577
"Heh. I'll let my coin decide that. Let's see what fate has to say about such a battle..." Crowe says, pulling out a 1G coin. Char looks at him, nonplussed.

"Saying stuff like that, I think Crowe's got this one," Char says.

"Hey, shut up! Don't lump me in with-" Crowe begins to say.

"Yeah, definitely Crowe. He's getting angry, that's hotblooded, right?" Yamada asks.

Crowe looks down, defeated. "Fine. Screw the coin toss, I'll go start prepping Brasta."

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>>21878893
"Come on, guys. I'm trying to be serious here.
"Well, as serious as one can be when they're trying to be as hammy as possible.
"Look, the Jovians based their entire society around Gekiganger and its type of hot-blooded shonen action and the morality that comes with such shows. You've got to take this seriously, even if we are reducing the power output on your weapons to be non-lethal.
"Just be glad that you don't have to wear appropriate uniforms."

>>21878893
"Always good to see a situation resolve itself.
Now I'm pretty sure you have experience on what kind of behavior these guys are expecting, so you're probably set there.
The one qualifier though, and this is the only time you will ever receive this order, is that you should probably fight fair with decent sportsmanship.
Think you can do that?"

>>21878893

Good luck, Crowe. Just try to ham it up, you've met these types before.

>>21879106
"Yeah, try not to damage the other mech to much or humiliate the pilot to badly. We need these folks to like us. You should still win, though."

>>21878805
Wait, wait. First, we've got to take the Brasta, and put some appropriate SPACE COPS paraphernalia on it.
The Black and White color scheme is fine for a police mech, because Black and White is the standard police colors for Japan, and therefore would be the standard that Super Robot shows like Gekiganger would use.
So add a pair of red and blue police lights on the shoulders of the Brasta, and maybe some big ostentious TG symbol on the Brasta's shield, like a police logo.
And make sure that everyone has a TG badge that looks like a police identification. All officers must have a small notebook and pen, with the TG symbol on the front.

We've got to play up that we're the Space Police here to apprehend or blow up criminals.

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>>21878893
We need to repaint the Brasta like the robot in the back. A nice big fat emblem on the chest and shield, add more red, POLICE labels, and siren lights, and then have Crowe recall how Kamina and Apollo and the Gravion team acted.

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>>21879212
Actually, if we put the Brasta in Elysium for a bit, we could even put Incursion Holo-Emitters on it to help with the effect.
And tell Crowe that he's supposed to take up this pose when he arrives on the scene.

"Good luck, OFFICER Broust."

"MOUSE! Record EVERYTHING!"

"Don't complain, Crowe, you'll get a cut of the profits."

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>>21879241
We need something like a gold V-fin on Brasta's head too.

Gonna need to make a video of this.

A certain kitsune professor is gonna want to see this...

>>21879267
"Alright Mouse, we're expecting your best on this one. Make sure you get every angle you can without endangering the filming crew and equipment. And I'm serious about that. Don't go putting someone or something in the middle of the arena."

>>21879267
I was going to bring up time, but with Elysium, it's really cut down to just 40 minutes, and a lot of that is the spin up and spin down of the transpace drive getting there and back.

You make the TEMPORARY modifications to the Brasta, much to Crowe's grumbling.

He is ready and waiting for you to send him out.

Are you sending just him or the support force the other guy suggested too?

>>21879382

Support force as well, for a space cop is nothing without his plucky support characters.

>>21879382
"Remember how Kamina would act! Do your best, police-y version!"

>>21879382

Send Elaine in a policewomany uniform.

<3

>>21879397
I agree, support force sounds alright. Maybe we should send Mordin along to emphasize our supposed inter-galaticness.

>>21879382
I am voting for a smaller support team of the Rodger Young, a Support Frigate, and Elaine and Lyla.
Special Agents Quattro and Yamada are to also come along.

>>21879382
"Remember, Crowe, you're a Special Agent of Task Force 38, of the Transpace Guard. You're Space FBI, here to take down violent criminals and terrorists."

>>21879424
Yes, that does sound like it would help with the ruse.

>>21879424
Actually, here's my faux-team vote: Mordin, Dr. Lazarus, Lyla and/or Elaine, and HK-50, all in TG Police-style disguises. It'll really sell it.

>>21879450

Agreeing with the Space FBI thing.

We can claim the TSAB are space interpol, to try to get UEFA to allow us to rescue them.

>>21878805
Didn't see this suggestion before, but good idea as well, we don't want to give ourselves away to the enemy just yet.

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>>21879465
I'd also include the EMH, just so we have the grumpy doctor that complains whenever the agents get themselves hurt.
Mordin and Lazarus can be the Forensics Duo.

Wait, what did I call you out on?

I'm so confused.

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You replicate some badges and uniforms and send out your Special Investigation Unit to accompany Crowe.

On arriving at the designated site, you find a single super robot waiting for you there.

"LIARS!" his voice booms over your communication system. "You were told to bring a champion and you brought several?! What sort of base trickery is this?!"

>>21879600

Being lazy

Speaking of, we aren't going to encounter any Love Muffins during this right, are we? I want to know whether we should keep our Armorfleet and Erebus out of range and just have cynos ready to bridge reinforcements in.

>>21879600
You called me out on setting the next session for Wednesday.

So I didn't.

JUST TO PROVE YOU WRONG!

>>21879619
"Sir, if you will calm down, they're medical and support personnel. You are welcome to inspect them to your satisfaction.
"Section 14, Article 51: All front-line units will, whenever possible, be deployed with a support team to aid in their operations and their recovery."

You misunderstand. We did only bring one person to fight. The others are simply here to watch your glorious battle.

>>21879619
"Our apologies, Jovian Federation representative! We wanted our team on hand in case either of you needed medical attention or repairs to your mechas! Please don't take this as an attempt to overpower you! Only one of our men will be competing against you today, with no assistance otherwise!"

>>21879619

"Be at ease, champion.

Our's is Special Agent Crowe and his DBM-00 Brasta. With him are his seconds, Special Agents Lyla, Elaine and Doctors Mordin and Lazarus. They are here to witness this trial of arms and ensure the proceedings are honourable and Just."

>>21879626
Well, you showed me.

>>21879624
Now unable to torture his own players, Cerebrate Anon now spends his nights scaring the players of other quests...

>>21879619
Oh, a Daitetsujin...


Weapons:
[+] Spread Laser (BS)- 1500 damage, 10 EN/attack [+20%]
[+] Large Missile (PGSX:2)- 1600 damage, 20 rounds [+25%]
[+] Large Laser (B)- 2000 damage, 10 EN/attack [+10%]
[H] Rocket Punch (PS)- 1400 damage x 2 [+0%]
[+] Gravity Blast (SV:5)- 1200 damage/10 EN [+30%]
[F] Distortion Attack- 4500 damage, 30 EN/attack [+20%]

MAP Attacks:
[+] Gravity Blast (I:5)- 3800 damage, 30 EN/attack [+10%]

>>21879669
You could start it back up?

I always wanted to conquer Andromeda.

>>21879619

This is the support unit and some liasions to brief you on the criminals we're pursuing. After all, the more information you have, the more effective you are!

They will, of course, remain far outside the designated combat area and observe.

As well, they contain recovery units in case of accidents.

>>21879669

We only conquered ONE galaxy... grumblegrumble

Still sore at the failed exploration.

>>21879669

And knowing you have comms with MetaOP makes me worry.

Especially since you have potential meta-access canonically.

The last thing we need in this orgy of Chaos is Zerg showing up and either infesting Chaos or becoming Chaos Zerg.

>>21879619
>>21879646
>>21879648
>>21879651
>>21879665
>>21879689
"Rodger Young, Support Frigate, no matter what happens, do not interfere in the fight until a victor between Crowe and the Jovian champion is determined.
"Crowe, separate yourself from the support team. You're supposed to be fighting this guy one on one."

>>21879712
Nah, we'd nom on the Tyranids and. . .

Yeah, we probably would end up eating Chaos eventually.

>>21879619
Wait, our task force is 2.5 Light-years from Earth right now.
The Brasta doesn't have an FTL drive.
How else was the Brasta and Crowe supposed to get here except by hitching a ride on the Rodger Young? It doesn't have Boson Jump capability.

Guys, wait.
The Brasta can't do an FTL jump on its own.

Just tell the guy that our mechs can't do their own boson jumps, so we needed a ride to the fight.

As a veritable flood of explanations, excuses, and apologies hits, him, the pilot shouts exasperatedly over the comm-link.

"ENOUGH!" he roars. "OK, OK! I get it! Just get over here and fight already! As befitting a true warrior of JUSTICE, I will let you have the first attack!"

Crowe pilots the Brasta forward, arming weapons.

"Clear to engage, command?" he asks.

>>21879920

Clear to engage, but not with the VX Spigot. Just don't kill him, we want a manly duel to hot blooded broism, and all that stuff.

>>21879920

"Just don't miss your first two shots, as usual."

>>21879920
"You're clear to engage, Special Agent Broust. Good luck out there."

>>21879920
"You are clear to engage, Crowe. Remember, don't go crazy, but don't let him think you're going easy on him."

>>21879959
Almost forgot! Let Mouse take control of three of the Observers to film the battle. Contact the Jovian Federation and inform them that these golden robots are helping us to preserve our first encounter for posterity.

Rolled 78, 51 = 129

>>21879920
"Copy that. All right then... Let me show you some real zero distance shooting!" Crowe challenges as he blasts towards the large mecha.

"I will show you the power of this Tetsujin! PREPARE YOURSELF!" the pilot challenges.

>>21879994

You're an idiot.


Warp another linked observer array to Pluto and film it from there.

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>>21880023

"So... any bets on how much ammo the Brasta will expend?

10 bucks on all."

>>21879994
No, that'll just rile them up more, warping in extra stuff like that.

We'll make do with what we've got on-hand.
Which is 9 Observers in the Graveyards and 3 near the Jovian colonies.

>>21880044
Nah, he'll have one shot left in the end. . .
because his rifle jammed.

>>21880052
Yeah, I see your point now. Sorry Mouse, but you'll just have to wait for editing.

>>21880061
I'm betting on it coming down to a cross-counter punch.
Hot-blooded duels between warriors of JUSTICE always come down to cross-counter punches.

>>21880090

I won't put it past Crowe doing it with Spiker Ammo.

>>21880023
"Hey, Techno-wizards, make sure you're recording this. I know you guys are watching this on your 50" HD Holo-LED Scrying TV."

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>>21880023
Crowe fires his rifle on automatic, letting the stream of projectiles wear at the massive enemy's armor while he zooms closer. The Tetsujin pilot roars as his robot raises a metal claw.

"IRON HAND OF JUSTICE, GO! ROCKET PUNCH!" the pilot shouts as the enormous claw detaches from the arm and blasts towards the Brasta. The agile mech darts out of the way, continuing to pepper the Tetsujin with fire.

"What?! How could I miss?! YOU STUPID PILE OF JUNK!!!"

"How can you hope to touch me with so much anger in your heart?!" Crowe berates the pilot as he swings around and launches a pair of explosive rounds into the mech's knee joints. "A true ally of justice doesn't mistake blind rage for ferocity!"

"Tha- Be silent! I will show you true justice!" the pilot says, turning. Energy begins to build up over his chest. "Graviton BEEEEEEEAM!"

The fight goes on like that for a long while, pilots trading challenges while Crowe continually dodges each of the Tetsujin's attacks.

"Stop flying around and fight me like a man!!!" the pilot finally yells, exasperated.

"OK... You asked for it!" Crowe shouts, switching around the configuration of his rifle while charging in.

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>>21880256
A pair of nets launch from the Brasta's hips, enveloping the giant mecha as lightning courses over it.

"Th...This is..." the pilot sputters, trying to raise one of the mech's iron claws.

"Your end!" Crowe counters. "BRASTA SUPER SPIKE SPECIAL! IMPALING EEEEEEEND!"

His rifle suddenly emits a brilliant spike of energy, turning the gun into a lance as the Brasta crashes into the Tetsujin. The energy lance breaks through the Tetsujin's side just as the net on one side broke, allowing the enemy robot to smash a fist into the side of the Brasta.

A choking gasp is heard from the pilot of the other mech.

>>21880318

Shit.

"Crowe, ascertain your opponents status before continuing, break off for now!"

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>>21880256
>>21880318
>A true ally of justice doesn't mistake blind rage for ferocity!
Oh man, this is comedy shounen action gold right here.

Alright, someone get sensors on the guy, how's he doing? If he's showing injuries, prepare to beam him over to for healing.
But don't beam him over yet, he's got to yield first.

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>>21880318
"How... how could this happen... to me?" the pilot sobs. "Has justice truly turned from me?"

"You're not dying," Crowe says.


"There was... so much left to do..." the pilot wheezes. "Promises to keep..."

"Your life support is fine and I didn't hit your pilot block. You're not dying," Crowe repeats.

"I'm... I'm sorry... Ms. Sayoko..." the pilot goes on. "I... I really would've liked to have gone to the beach with you..."

"You... are... not... dying..." Crowe says, putting a slow emphasis on each word.

"I'm not?" the pilot asks, sounding puzzled. "Oh, I'm not. Good fight, then! And since I'm not dead, this must be a rival battle! And if you're my rival, then that must mean either you're one of the good guys, or a villain who will later BECOME a good guy! Either way, trial passed."

>>21880318
>>21880362
If the pilot is injured, contact the Jovian Federation and ask if they would approve of our medics healing their champion while our engineers repair their mecha. After all, we're hoping to befriend them.

>>21880417
Oh, never mind then.

>>21880417

Is the rest of the crew getting this?

Boo, I thought there'd be more of a show.

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>>21880417
>that must mean either you're one of the good guys, or a villain who will later BECOME a good guy
"Lyla, if we EVER get like that; punch us. I don't think I could face my family if I was to be so full of shounen super robot hot-blooded passion, and I'm saying this as someone from Japan who grew up with this stuff."

>>21880417

I think we should now, go with: Informing them that if we can, we should meet in person with a couple agents to figure out the best way to get the UEFA in on a coordinated assault, while recovering the TSAB operatives and "dangerous foreign device" that the "criminal elements" are fighting over.

>>21880461
Gratuitous actions scenes were gratuitous and cut for time.

Sorry.

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>>21880486
"Will do, boss. Can I punch you right now, just in case?"

"Lyla!"

"I'm just kidding Elaine, sheesh."

>>21880417
>VP-99dreamsofthis
I...really don't want to know.

"So, now that we've proven our dedication to Good, let's get down to the business of punching the criminals in the face.
"I think it best if we convene and start exchanging information.
"While we too, would like to charge in and rescue our TSAB comrades, our charter requires us to work with the local law enforcement authorities wherever possible. If you know of anyone in the UEFA we could contact, we would be most appreciative."

Also, I think we need to come up with a way of broaching the Black Ops matter. Their fleet is still somewhere in this system; we want a good explanation for them.
Like...fellow TG Agents from the Internal Affairs Department that went missing, and so when they appear and attack, we can act all surprised that 'they've turned to evil!' and such.

>>21880572

Simple, they're corrupt cops on the run, and we're stretched too thin to do anything but fight them when we encounter them.

>>21880572
I don't know, isn't "Corrupted by an evil computer with DARK POWERS" something that fits neatly in their worldview?
Like Blackops seems almost compelled to act like cliched villains.

>>21880585
>>21880587
So they're fellow officers who were seduced and corrupted by the DARK POWERS of an EVIL COMPUTER, and we are sworn to fight them wherever they are?

If we can get the local Black Ops commander to start monologuing about how our adherence to Justice is weak and foolish, and that TRUE POWER will be grasped only by the WORTHY of BLACK OPS, we'd be set.

>>21880684
Sounds legit.

>>21880684
Given the fact that I fully expect Director Page to turn into a giant snake when we fight him, we might just be able to provoke them into making a speech like that.

>>21880417
"That conclusion you just reached is clearly inarguable. Now are you prepared to accept our aid so that peace may be restored to this solar system?"
Lets start by exchanging information I guess?
Maybe a carefully censored description of the Void Engineers and New Chaos.

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>>21880768
"You were TG Intelligence! Your duty was to safeguard us from the threats we couldn't see! Not become the very thing we swore to fight!"

>>21880572
"Not really, it hasn't been that long since the war between us has been ended. Most of the UEFA's civilian leadership lack the will of true warriors. They have a few ambassadors we talk to, but that is all."

>>21880819
"What aid will you give us? Do you have some way to annihilate the fleets around Jupiter?"

>>21880854

We're not sure. (MetaOP, what forces are in the Jupiter AO?)

As for UEFA, they seem to be also holding their own. While we move in system after clearing your AO, we'd appreciate your help in getting them to not shoot us.

We'll be working on getting an operation plan together for our forces before we begin our attack.

>>21880854
"Talking with ambassadors is good; we can try to talk with them to get them to come around.
"As for clearing out the fleets around Jupiter, I believe we can help. We have our own small, if somewhat capable, task force waiting 2.5 light-years from here.
"If you can help us pinpoint the enemy fleets, and keep them pinned while we take them out one by one, I think we have the foundation of a good plan."

We'll want to save the Borg assimilation network taps until we go up against their main fleets. We don't want to give them any inkling of the kind of Hell they've brought down on their heads.

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>>21880883
>Jupiter
There are approximately 30 New Chaos ships and 20 Void Engineer ships fighting around Jupiter.

New Chaos:
6 Star Destroyers splashed with Chaos markings everywhere.
14 Klingon Birds of Prey.
8 5km long ships fitting the profile of Chaos/New Chaos warships
2 6km long ships fitting the profile of Chaos/New Chaos warships.

Void Engineers:
18 'Flying Saucer'-like craft, each about 100m in radius.
2 10km long battleships that look very utilitarian and somewhat blocky, but glimmering with lights.

>>21881013
From your estimates, each craft with carrying capacity has approximately a half-strength complement of fighters with it. That'd be the ISDs and the two 10km Void ships. You count at least 100 fightercraft from the ISDs and at least quadruple that number from the VEs.

>>21881013

What's their disposition and relative formation?

>>21881013
Are the Klingon Birds of Prey using their cloaking devices at all?
During their conflicts, do our Observers see any evidence of offensive transporter usage?

>>21881013
Are they in two big fleets, or are they split up into smaller groups?

>>21881062
They seem very angry and their relatives are clustered around them.

That is to say, Most of the ships are in 'knife-fight' range, with only the Chaos and VE battleships hanging back and exchanging fire from long range.

The Birds of Prey are making use of their cloaking devices, yes. Your Observers cannot detect any offensive transporter usage.

>>21881225

Tentative assault plan for our assets, this is just a first draft:

Armorfleet transits in around 100 AU out, and then warps to pluto, where the prober deploys combat probes to scan down the New Chaos battleships, once he has a lock, the fleet will fleetwarp to the battleship and engage it. As it does so, the rest of our fleet will warp on top of the other one, and engage it. The Nocturne will put fighter-bombers on the Armorfleet target to up the DPS on it and provide remote reps for fleet it's with.

Thoughts?

>>21881225

What kind of distances are we talking about for 'knife-fight'? Since for space combat that can be really far apart.

>>21881297
The ships are within 200km of each other.

And with that, I have to be off. I'll pick this up tomorrow at the usual time.

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>>21881225

This is my proposed battleplan. From what I understand, we have the general close ranged fight with the BBs hanging back.

I propose having our first strike group engage the VE BBs. The numerical disadvantage implies that those are the most dangerous. We move in and engage at close range with most of our fleet. If we choose to only selectively engage VE ships, I expect the NC forces to press their advantage and stay on the field, likely revealing their Birds of Prey as well. The smaller VE craft should be unable to fallback in good order, lest they be overrun and destroyed by pursuing NC forces.

Once complete, phase 2 can begin. I've chosen the NC fleet to be destroyed last as their ships have capabilities that we are at least, familiar with. Our TIE/D fighter wing can warp into close proximity with the Imperial Vessels. Their fightercraft will take time to return to their motherships and in that lull, we can make use of the Trench Run Defence to assault their BBs with nigh impunity.

Strike Force A will at this point, begin targetting the Birds of Prey that have shown themselves, begin probing for them and attacking the smaller ships previously engaged in close combat, delaying their return to aid their motherships.

>>21881508

You are expecting unmodified pre-Vong anti-ISD tactics to work?

Are you high?

Also, we're not touching the VE because they might still be reasoned with, we're hitting NC first because of that.

>>21881508
By New Chaos and VE Battleships, I specifically mean the unidentified ones, IE the 2 10kms, and the 5&6kms. The ISDs are in that morass at the center, along with the 18 Saucers and the BoPs.

>>21881523

Considering that it was a flaw of the design itself, I fail to see why it would not work. The empire commisioned new ships instead of retrofitting the ISDs with better anti-starfighter capabilities.

>>21881536

Ah, that would make things a little different.

>>21881013
>6 Star Destroyers
>14 Klingon Birds of Prey
Considering their numbers, we can attempt to take them over. We have many slicer droids and Salvage Corvettes, and as soon as we have computer control, we can turn off gravity and depressurize the entire ships, clearing them of enemy personnel.
We will need to set up psionic storms to prevent telepathic communication of our attack methods to the main New Chaos fleet.

Using the Hiigaran Scout's EMP ability should also allow us to take down many of the defenses on enemy ships, allowing us to get boarders into critical areas.

As for the Chaos warships, they can't be captured and sanitized in a timely manner. Simply destroy them.

During boarding operations, the third thing that boarders should do after securing the bridge/central computer and the engine room, is to dump a canteen of Holy Water into the ship's water tanks. As soon as that is done, turn the atmosphere back on, and pump the ship's humidity up to 95%.

>>21881225
We'll have the EVE Fleet warp in on top of the Chaos battleships, and as soon as they orient themselves to face the EVE Fleet, the rest of the Task Force jumps in at a perpendicular angle to the EVE Fleet's angle of attack, catching the New Chaos ships in a pincer attack.
The NC Star Destroyers and Birds of Prey will have to disengage and show their backs to the VE fleet as they attempt to reinforce their capital ships. This will open them up to boarding actions and Salvage Corvette attacks.

Alright, I have a plan. A crazy plan.

We have replicators and a bunch of things in our database with gravitics. I propose we replicate large gravitic emitters. and then place them in a line. Thousands of kilometers long. Each one set to slingshot a projectile from one to the next. Then we place this accelerator in the Oort cloud.

It will be a bitch to aim, but it is nearly impossible to detect, dodge, or stop relativistic mass projectiles.

I want us to create a giant gun and then go about solving all of our problems with it.

>>21881615

Except both sides have precogs and good sensors, you derp.

>>21881615
We went over this already.
We can't create large scale gravitics like that without a Schlock Mercenary military fabber. And we haven't been able to acquire one or go to attempt to acquire a Tausennigan Ob'enn Thunderhead-class superfortress with the necessary military fabbers even though we have a plan that could work, because we haven't had the time or the ability to put it into motion.

Also, both sides have sensors that can detect FTL objects.

Alright, I've read through the Void Engineer sourcebook, and there are some items for concern.
The Void Engineers do have their own version of a Reality Emitter. It differs slightly in its operation, but the effect can be said to be the same as something approaching our Mk III Reality Emitter.

They do have access to teleportation technology, but it's the teleporter pad type of technology that BLU Engineer uses; unless they reverse engineered a Klingon transporter (which they very well could have), they aren't capable of transporter shenanigans.

Their weapons, while powerful, aren't too different than what we field. High power lasers, disintegrators, and magic-fueled laser cannons are what they had as their normal arsenal. Don't be surprised if they've gotten better weapons.
If they were able to reverse-engineer the TSAB's prized Intelligent Devices, then we're in real trouble.

As for defenses, they have personal shields and a form of force field that is capable of killing a person on contact (but does not affect machines).

As for the New Chaos ships, they have void shields and AT Fields, Plasma Reactors, S2 and S3 Organs.
If we're feeling not nice, we can force a Bird of Prey to eject its warp core, then blow it up, causing a subspace tear, similar to one caused by a Son'aa subspace weapon. This subspace tear will be drawn to the Warp-dependent machinery of the New Chaos ships like a homing torpedo, and cause absolute havoc.
But causing tears in space-time is generally frowned upon.

We really need to capitalize on our resources and what we just acquired.
The Jovian Federation has a boson gun, their Leap Cannon. It's capable of teleporting missiles right through shields and teleport interdictors and anywhere inside a target vessel. The main limit of the gun is that its range is limited by the sensors that it uses. Normally, they still would be using sub-light sensor arrays, but by working with us, we can feed them boson jump targeting data from our Protoss Observers anywhere in the system. By working the Jovian's Leap Cannon into our plan, we acquire a way to engage in teleporting bomb tactics without bringing down our own shields.

Also, we intercepted one of their communications saying that they need another 40 hours before they can get their Leap Cannon online.
I'm sure that with the help of Egon, Mustadio, Data, BLU Engineer, The Three Guru's, Slippy, and a Starfleet Engineering Team, we could cut that time down dramatically.

What we also need to do is find a way for Darius and the Knights Inductor to face New Chaos in combat. It should strike the fear of God(-Emperor) in them to see True Astartes fighting New Chaos' pathetic attempt at replicating His glorious work. New Chaos believes the Emperor dead and gone? AH! So long as a single one of His Angels live, His Dream and Will live on!

>>21885823
The God-Emperor literally lives on inside the New Chaos gods.
As do Gork, Mork, and the Eldar deities.
At least read the source fic.

>>21883519
Mordin, an R2, and an R9 droid may help as well. Cossack is occupied with getting Metal Man Mk. II ready of course, and Lazarus is a medical doctor.

>>21888482
We got other reasons to wanting kill them then being 'traitors to mankind'.

Well I haven't read the fic (but I have read a part of the anti-fic the doorstop)and I am not sure if this would effect anything but from reading the composition of NC's forces. I guess that the non-native ships are simply battle thralls who have been indoctrinated to the point of fanaticism. Destroying their battleships are going to cause a greater effect of the battle between the smaller ships when taking the VE's out due to morale.

Oh yea, don't forget Mechagodzilla, he did quite well in the last space battle.

Speaking of Space Battles, did we ever get more Anti-Frigate destroyers after all of our Gallente Navy Catalysts got blown up? EVE's latest expansion will give us access to four new Destroyers, if we want to send Looters or someone to grab them.

http://www.eveonline.com/retribution/new-destroyers/

Also, we grabbed a Tengu from the Black-Ops fleet after it's Capsuleer bailed, right? I couldn't find out what happened to it after we nabbed it. If we still have it, we might want to put someone in it and set it up as either a fleet Shield Bonus monstrosity for the non-armor tanking ships, or a gigantic Point Defense Rocket whore.

Another thing, have we considered Stealth Bombers, or, since we lack those at short notice, refitting a couple dozen Abaddons with EMP Smartbombs and heavy EMP armor defense and setting them for tactical Smartbomb spamming? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XlZ0EcsneSg

>>21881536

Just caught up from the archives, that was a trek and a half.

Also metaOP;

>Not engineering Fumble's promotion to hero yet
>Not giving Hero fumbles the ability to swap genders on crit success/failure due to an accident involving polyjuice potion after betting on Bulgaria in the Quidditch world cup.

>>21889223
>an accident involving polyjuice potion after betting on Bulgaria in the Quidditch world cup.
In all fairness, Fumbles doesn't need an ill-thought out bet to get in that kind of trouble.

>>21889223
If it makes you feel better the first time the Aurors get a 100, that's the hero they'll be getting.

OP online. Ready to roll... poorly.

>>21892276
Alright, let's suggest providing some engineering assistance, see if we can get the Jovian's weapons online soon enough to help us.

>>21892276

Yay, considering how well the last space battle went. How long (in accelerated time) did it take to get the storm fixed.

at least it had mechagodzilla was being awesome

>>21892339
"Sorry my friend, but access to the leap cannons are restricted to only the most trusted of engineers. We appreciate the thought, though."

>>21892276
MetaOP, whatever happened to the Black Ops Tengu and Capsuleer we snagged? http://suptg.thisisnotatrueending.com/archive/19715598/#p19731830

If we have the Tengu, are any of our Capsuleers able and willing to pilot it?

Can our scanners detect if the shields on the Star Destroyers have been modified from their original form?

If they're standard Star Wars shields, I think we may have some new ships soon.

>>21892496
"If we engage the criminal fleets, would the Jovians be able to provide support in keeping the smaller elements of their fleets pinned?"

>>21892585
Remember.
Subspace transports can punch through even Star Trek shields.

>>21892585
The shields themselves do not appear changed, no.

>>21892755
>Star Wars shields unchanged
Looks like its time to commit some Grand Theft Star Destroyer.
And we should get some of those Birds of Prey, as well.

I'd like to have the crew of the Indie prepare a few proton Torpedos with the yield turned down significantly.

We'll attempt to teleport these into the bridge and backup bridges of a few of the Star Destroyers, THIS TIME making sure to have the timer long enough that we can disarm our own damn weapon if it doesn't disapear.

We'll use our Mass Produced Tie fighters to harass the smaller New Chaos ships, while targeting their bigger ships using the wave Canons on our R-types and our large guns.

The Armor Fleet will be sucking up bullets to prevent any of our important ships from being damaged.

>needs tweaking before use

>>21892881
I'd like to change that from Proton or Photon Torpedoes, to bandoliers of dialed down photon grenades, which are specifically designed to stun.

Also, I suggest we wait until the Hiigaran Fighters project is done, so that we can use the Soulchipped Scouts with their EMP ability to disable enemy ships.

>>21892881
We might also be able to control the transporters from outside the transporter room, so that even if the photon grenades come back and go off, they don't do anything. Or maybe have Holograms and Droids operate the transporter controls.

We'll need the Gallente ships keeping the Indefatigable safe, and the Al'Kesh bombers.

>>21892881
After the initial disablement, we'll need to follow up with droid slicers, and probably YVH and Securitrons.
Do we vent the atmosphere, or do we put Holy Water into the atmospheric systems and crank the humidity up to 95%?

>>21892942
I second waiting for the Hiigaran Fighters.

yeah, wait for Hiigaran fighters, that way we have more firepower and ability to harass.

In the meantime, we need to figure out a way to talk to the ambassadors of the UEFA so that we can try to get their help and find out if there's some kind of anti-teleport protection on the Earth.

Rolled 42, 70 = 112

>>21893451
>>21893406
You wait until the Hiigaran Fighters project is completed...

>>21893549
>waiting for the Hiigaran Fighters to finish
But we wanted to try to figure out how to talk with the UEFA on Earth in the meantime.

>>21893595
Indeed. But I'm sure OP will...wait, OP, what are you rolling for?

>>21893549
In the time that you wait, New Chaos has lost its 6 Star Destroyers and 2 Birds of Prey to the Void Engineers, along with all of their fightercraft. The Void Engineers have lost 8 of their Flying Saucers and sustained moderate damage to their battleships, as well as losing a quarter of their fighters. The New Chaos warships have suffered damage, but appear to be regenerating it, grotesque biological growths stretching over any area with battle-damage.

The battle is still going, though several times the battlefield has shifted as vessels attempt to flee and regroup only to be pursued, or as both sides temporarily halt to regroup and repair.

We could have an armored transmitter relay just come out of warp over the Moon and crash on the surface, then attempt to open communication with Lunar City.

Or we make a big, obvious transmitter come out of warp just beyond the UEFA's defense perimeter.

>>21893731
All of the New Chaos warships? If they're doing that, they're tainted and we're better off annihilating them.

>>21893731
>lost all 6 Star Destroyers
Damn, there goes Grand Theft Star Destroyer.
But we could still try to capture those Birds of Prey.
The New Chaos warships need to be destroyed, though.

>>21893759
Yes, all of the NC warships, meaning NOT the Birds of Prey.

>>21893731
Well, fuck. Let's just blast the crap out of the remaining NC ships. Same plan as before.

>>21893910
Right, but first, let's try to get the TSAB operatives out.
And for that we need to talk with the UEFA.

>>21893974

First we clear Jupiter, freeing up some Jovians to help us.

Well warp in our Armorfleet on the least damaged Chaos Capital Ship, and pound it. Drone ship will stay at long range and provide support. Our fighters are to engage the Birds of Prey.

All other ships, excepting the Defiant class, will engage the second least damaged Chaos battleship, from their optimal ranges, minus the Erebus, which will be waiting for a cyno if we need it. No need to play the DD card until we need to.

Double check beforehand that our Damnations, Phoboses and Devoters all have their cynos and fuel available, as well as the Gallente fleet`s cyno ships.

>>21894012
No. The Birds of Prey can be captured, if the proper preparations are taken.

Also, contacting the UEFA is done during the time we're waiting for the Hiigaran Fighters project.
So we're not going to the fight right now.

>>21894101

FUCK.

THAT.

We are not TOUCHING Chaos ships with a ten-AU long pole of solid plot-armorium.

They die, screaming.

It`s like you WANT us to fail or something.

>>21894101
You've got 15 minutes to figure out how to contact the UEFA before I move to the battle. Please realize that time will move in game even when planning. You aren't drawing from a limitless supply of time here.

>>21894152

We could try the observer broadcasting method again, but I'm not sure if it would work.

>>21894152
Send a photon torpedo with its warhead replaced with a communication package to Earth. Have it warp to high Earth orbit, and have it transmit on the UEFA's frequencies.

"UEFA, we need to talk concerning your current situation. Please meet us at the Jovian Federation's border."

>>21894260
While it's cheaper to use a photon torpedo, using a Protoss Observer would be better since its technology is markedly different from what New Chaos and the Void Engineers use.

>>21894260
>>21894299
The Observer is better, and we should reference a location from the Nadesico anime series, since it's less likely for uninvited guests to arrive.
"Meet us where the Nadesico fought the Kannazuki of the Lizards."

>>21894130

I share the same sentiments. Birds of Prey would be really spiffy, but there could be Chaos taint on those ships. We may not have all the time in the world to purify them either.

>>21894299
>>21894260
In addition, according to what I know and can find out, photon torpedoes don't use warp drives and have a max range of 300,000km.

Do you want to try and send an Observer to do the same thing?

>>21894352
Might as well.

We should see if the protoss are willing to help us restock our supply of those.

>>21894352
Actually, photon torpedoes don't have their own warp drives but are designed to use a hand-off system. The ship that fires the torpedo hands-off a warp field onto the torpedo.
However, >>21894299
points out that an Observer would be better.

>>21894369
Or give us the blueprints. Hell, all we really need is a SC2 Nexus and then we can just make all their buildings.

>>21894424
No SC2 era buildings. At most, they'll have the Brood War era tech tree.

>>21894387
Well, regardless of that, it says max range 300,000km.

I guess you're going with the Observer then.

You send out your message, though you have no idea when or if you'll hear back from them.

>>21894603
Send an Observer to the requested meeting place to wait for the UEFA.

After the Hiigaran Fighters project is completed, create a dozen Soulchipped Scouts with the EMP ability, and begin research on the Mysterious Cannon.

When we attack the NC and VE fleets, will the Jovian Federation join us?
Also, did the VE ever shoot at the Jovians first? Have they attempted to invade the Jovian colonies?

>>21894603
So what now?

>>21894903
You don't know. You could try asking them.

Research now allocated to the Mysterious Cannon.

>>21894920
Ask the Jovians these questions and do these things: >>21894903

>>21894903
"What do you mean, join you?"

"The Void Engineers did not shoot at us at first, but when a scout team of ours attempted to make it to Earth, they were intercepted and turned back with a warning. We tried again with a covert team and they were destroyed."

>>21894938

Is the Shipyard free?

If so, have it start pumping out more TIE/Ds

>>21895141
"We mean will you want to allocate any forces to assist in the battle against the transgressors. This is you native solar system, you do have the right to participate, and we would be grateful for your assistance, of course."

"I see. So the Void Engineers have not invaded any where? Only fought the Nu Chaos forces?"

>>21895141

Do you have any idea if there is any connection between the UEFA and the Void Engineers? It seems odd that the Void Engineers would blockade Earth without first tangling with the UEFA.

>>21895141

While our fleet is well equipped, any support you can spare would be appreciated. We'll give you tactical vectors and known capabilities of the enemy warships as soon as we have finalized our operational plan.

>>21895158
Orders given.

>>21895232
"Certainly, we will send some of our best heroes to aid you!"

"They have not invaded, no, just blockaded the inner system from us."

"A connection with the UEFA and the Void Engineers?! Of course! The cowardly UEFA must be in league with the Void Engineers to protect their home while they cook up some new scheme! Some sort of trickery or treachery must be afoot... It all makes sense now!"

>>21895141
"While our fleet is quite capable, we are still outnumbered. Any military assistance you could lend us would be appreciated."

The VE could simply be preventing anyone from getting to Earth, where the STOB Component is located, and the UEFA's own boson guns keep the VE's away.

Also, have the Spirit and the Hercules warp to Alpha Centauri to build up a reserve of RU's. Take the Hiigaran Fleet as an escort.

>>21895360

Not necessarily, it could simply be that the UEFA is too powerful for the VE to strike at until they destroy the New Chaos fleets.

That's the problem with these multiple faction fights, there's too many possibilities and not enough time to reach the proper conclusion.

>>21895416
Send a scout there first. It might be being used as a base.

>>21895360
>>21895360
>"A connection with the UEFA and the Void Engineers?!
Great going there, chief. You just HAD to open your big mouth.

"We can't be sure of that. The UEFA could simply be trapped by the Coid Engineers even as the Void Engineers are kept at bay by the UEFA's distortion fields and graviton weapons."

>>21895360
"Oh, no, highly unlikely. The VE would probably not have had time nor need to make such a pact with the UEFA."

>>21895460
>send a scout
The Indefatigable has the best cloaks in the task force, and its subspace transports can still be used at that distance.
So have it cloak and check the Alpha Centauri system ahead of the Spirit and Hercules.

>>21895460
You send a scout and Alpha Centauri is currently devoid of ships. Your Hiigarans set up shop there, but won't be available for a few hours while they transit there, harvest, and transit back.

>>21895484
>>21895507
"So you say... Hmmm. Still... best to be cautious."

>>21895537
Make sure that they make a few wings of Hiigaran Soulchipped Scouts.
And about another 100 TIE-D/C's.
we don't want to make too many because we will need RU's available for fleet repairs.

We'll begin the attack as soon as they return. That'll also give the UEFA time to contact us.

Have Vitun and VP-98 prepare for their interplanetary teleport in case the UEFA doesn't respond.

>>21895620
So you're going to wait until late afternoon to begin the fight?

>>21895665

No, we should have a wing or two of scouts, and just start pumping out TIE/Ds to replace losses. We should check on the Rendevous, send a second observer on an in and out to the one we sent to communicate with the UEFA to determine what happened, and then begin our attack.

>>21895665
Do we already have a wing of Soulchipped Hiigaran Scouts with the task force? Is the Hercules with the task force or the Spirit at Alpha Centauri?

Also, ask the Jovians if the New Chaos forces used their own teleportation technology in their fights, and if the UEFA had recently developed some kind of defense against boson jumps, since NC doesn't appear to be engaging in Warp teleportation attacks against the Earth and the Moon.

>>21895747
Both are at Alpha Centauri as requested.

>>21895747
"New Chaos doesn't know how to boson jump, no. We don't know if the UEFA dogs manages anything."

>>21895747
And yes, you have some Scouts.

>>21895819
"No, I mean if New Chaos has used their own foul teleportation methods. You said that they had gotten infiltrators into your midst; do you know if they did it via teleport insertion, or if it was done by a stealth ship.

>>21895875
"We do not know."

>>21895665
>>21895665
No, we're not going to wait, we're just sending off the Gathering/Production vessels while we take care of the Nu Chaos forces remaining. Complete obliteration of the clearly corrupted vessels, with major damage allowed for any untainted ships. In the case of the Birds of Prey, attempt not to compromise the entirety of it.

Strategy will be as indicated previously:

>>21894012
We'll warp in our Armorfleet on the least damaged Chaos Capital Ship, and pound it. Drone ship will stay at long range and provide support. Our fighters are to engage the Birds of Prey.

All other ships, excepting the Defiant class, will engage the second least damaged Chaos battleship, from their optimal ranges, minus the Erebus, which will be waiting for a cyno if we need it. No need to play the DD card until we need to.

Double check beforehand that our Damnations, Phoboses and Devoters all have their cynos and fuel available, as well as the Gallente fleet`s cyno ships.

>>21895890
Do we still have communication with the Observer we're using to send the message to the UEFA? If its not destroyed yet, have it transmit "Knight One. Let's talk. Are you haunted by the memories of Utopia? Come talk to us where the Nadesico fished for the Kannazuki."

If its Akito, he'll know what I'm talking about. If not, then it's gibberish.

>>21895978

No, that's why we're having a second do an in-and-out warp to ascertain it's status and double-check the RV before stepping off for the combat mission.

>>21895929
The Birds of Prey can be quickly taken out by using The Scouts' EMP to take down their shields, then beaming a small quantity of Nethack Holy Water into the water/air purification system.
EMP's aren't as useful against battlebarges because of their partial organic nature. Better that we concentrate firepower on them. Such as a MechaGodzilla/Kiryu tag team.

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Rolled 94, 78, 72 = 244

>>21895929
You form up and launch, the massed hulls of almost 200 battleships begin appearing around the New Chaos ships, the rest of the ships falling in at various ranges. Almost immediately both the Void Engineers and New Chaos begin redeploying in light of this unknown factor...

>>21896048

YEA.

KILL

>>21896028
You know that Observers have onboard communication systems, and we can call it via subspace comms, don't you? How else were we getting data streams back from the other Observers?

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>>21896048

Oh come on MetaOP, that isn't the proper pic, that's a fucking solo fit.

>>21896048
When the rest of the task force warps in, have the Relentless, Guardian, and AUH use their tractor beams on anti-missile duty, since the NC fighters are all gone.
After warping in, MechaGodzilla and Kiryu will launch and begin destroying weapon turrets on the MC battleships.

Have the Gallente Task Force set up remote repair chains and rotate to protect the non-replaceable ships.

Destroids get on the outside of the Storm and provide heavy fire support.

Indefatigable stay within the defense envelope of the task force.

Hiigaran Scouts use EMPs against the Birds of Prey, with Star Destroyers concentrating ion cannon fire on them.

Have the Storm be ready to put up its Psi Shield in the case of a Warp attack against te Farseers.

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>>21895978
You lost contact with the Observer when it entered the jamming fields. Only a freak luck accident let that one on the moon get its transmission back to you.

>>21896048

With 195 battleships firing capital-grade pulse lasers at close range all at once, New Chaos loses a cruiser almost immediately. A handful of seconds go by before they lose one of their 5km 'frigates' to the combined firepower of the Oncoming Storm and All Under Heaven. Another frigate detonates under the devastating wave cannons of the R-types, and two more fall to the gold and lighting ships of the Protoss.

Your fighters and bombers manage to rip apart the Birds of Prey with startling swiftness, though they manage to get in a few hits on your vessels that drain shields and damage armor.

>>21896242
That's what I'm talking about.
Status of remaining New Chaos forces and behavior of Void Engineers?

>>21896207
No. Don't have MechaGodzilla and Kiryu launch. The fact that they have S2 Engines may be noticable to New Chaos. We need to try and keep them as much of a surprise as possible for if/when New Chaos launches Evas and we need their AT Fields.

>>21896242

That's why I said to send a second one in and out, to see if the original was ok.

>>21896292
I agree. It's not exactly an ace in the hole, but we shouldn't be showing all our forces in one battle.

>>21896242

*170

Fleet size limits, remember, MetaOP?

We can only have 256 ships per fleet, the other 25 hulls are spares for when we lose Abaddons.

>>21896335

Well, at least for our EVE fleet.

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>>21896242
With this unexpected opening, the Void Engineer's saucers surge forward, swarming around one of the New Chaos frigates and slowly shearing it apart with continuous energy beams that slice right through it like cutting lasers. The ship's biological components begin to regenerate, growing over the cuts, but before it can heal the damage, a chain of explosions rip apart space around the cuts, tearing apart the frigate.

Several streams of energy erupt from the Void Engineer battleships, landing on another frigate. The frigate glows and shimmers for a moment, then simply explodes.

New Chaos decides to focus its fury on the Armorfleet, a full twenty Abaddons suddenly incinerated before they can be repaired as the main guns on each vessel fire. Their secondary guns tear through the armor of many more, but the nanite-repair functions on the ships keep them in the game. Several capsuleers get podded in the crossfire, however.

Forces:
3 5km long ships fitting the profile of Chaos/New Chaos warships
1 6km long ships fitting the profile of Chaos/New Chaos warships.

Void Engineers:
10 'Flying Saucer'-like craft, each about 100m in radius.
2 10km long battleships

>>21896396
Using the power of our scanners and science team, can we figure out how the fuck the Void Engineers blew up that second frigate?

>>21896396

Armorfleet should put DPS on the frigates for now, maybe the VE will be slightly more willing to talk after.

Main fleet is to put all alpha on the Chaos battleship.

Anything out of the Jovians?

>>21896396

Oh, also, have our podded and shipless pilots reship into some of our spare Abaddons and get back in the fight.

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>>21896477
"Concentrate all your fire on the largest Nu Chaos ship!"

Rolled 83, 97, 12 = 192

>>21896452
As far as they can tell, once the frigate's shields were down they fired some sort of beam that directly converted some of the mass on the ship to energy, resulting in an explosion.

>>21896477
They're watching with relish and scrambling some forces to join the fight. At this rate the battle will be over before they get here.

>>21896484
They're making their way there.

>>21896396
AUH, Storm, Guardian, Relentless concentrate fire on the 6km NC ship.

All R-Types fire on one 5km ship, all other fighters and the Indefatigable concentrate on the second 5km ship.
Capsuleers get into any spare EVE ships we have, and the EVE fleet concentrate fire on the remaining NC ship.

Do not engage the VE ships yet.

>>21896574

We should attempt to hail the VE ships right now, too.

At least they *might* be reasoned with.

>>21896632
To be honest, I'm not sure if NC has ever actually encountered a superior force, which explains a lot about their attitude.
But yeah, no way we can reason with them until we find the brats they call gods and kick their asses.
Since one of their intentional flaws is blind zealotry and a tendency to attack anyone who badmouths their stupid religion and stupid deities.

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>>21896574
The remaining four New Chaos ships are torn apart despite their attempt to reestablish distance with a sudden and extreme acceleration that carries them a few thousand miles away in a manner of seconds. The Armorfleet tears apart another frigate before it can escape, and the guns on the rest of the ships are capable of handling such ranges. The remaining New Chaos cruiser turns to slag under the combined firepower of most of the fleet as another frigate goes up thanks to the Protoss and the final frigate is annihilated by the Void Engineers. However they do not go cheaply. On their way out, the New Chaos ships destroyed another 30 Abaddons, 2 Lokis, and 3 Proteuses.

The Void Engineer saucers return to orbit around the two battleships. There is a pause. Then they hail you.

Captcha: Caledonia voice

OK, OK, I'll bring Rucks back. Sheesh.

>>21896731
Well, open communication then, but be on alert for hacks or magical fuckery.
We have things to minimize that right?

>>21896731
I suppose we should talk to them then.

>>21896731

Reship what we can for now, put what heavy tackle we have in our Gallente fleet into the Armorfleet to make up for the T3s lost.

As for the remaining pilots, they're SOL until we can get enough tech to get more ships.

>>21896731
Accept the hail.
Mouse, Data, Isel, UNIT, Sandmen, Deckers, and ANON; full cyber-combat readiness. Expect them to try to hack us while we talk.
ANON, full memetic filters; to the VE even psychology is a weapon.
Also, lose the chintzy stuff; they're a Meta-Faction and we will respect them as such.

"Void Engineers. This is Sector Task Force 38 of the Transpace Guard. Identify yourselves, and your purpose here."

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>>21896745
>>21896741
The image of a graying man in a simplistic uniform comes onscreen.

"I don't know who you are or why you're here, but you're in a restricted zone," he says, gruffly. "This entire solar system is under lockdown, nothing is suppose to enter or leave. Terrible forces are at work in this place, and you risk much by traveling here. I am under orders to turn away or destroy intruders, but given your recent aid, I will instead take my fleet and regroup towards Mars. If you value... anything at all, really, you will take this chance to leave."

>>21896807
The man's eyes narrow. "Transpace Guard... So you seek to reinforce your fellows on Earth? You'll never reach them alive! Leave immediately or we will open fire, we won't fall for your base tricks again!"

>>21896846
No, you misunderstand. We are Taskforce 38, of the Transpace guard, we're simply here to remove the reality disruptions. We can guess by your reaction that you've been attacked by the Black Ops branch as well. They destroyed our sector base and nearly killed our boss.

>>21896884

You mean Black Ops are on Earth?

Oh fuck we need to get to Earth now. Those traitors can't get the components.

As for base tricks, how about evidence proving that the people on that planet claiming to be Guard are in fact traitors to the organisation?

(If anyone sees anything I shouldn't say, tell me now)

>>21896919
Like the video of Page killing the other leaders of TG high command?

We should send that to them.

>>21896934

I'm thinking more BlOps rampaging through Sector HQ.

No sense giving them the Page file unless it's necessary.