Week 5 Space Battle - The 500 Bloom Ships of Alice Clegg

The Fleet of Alice Clegg, 500 Bloom Ships are in orbit above the dying Star of Wolnitzsav deep within the Brethren Expanse.
While only Lt. Ryuk has the codes necessary to board Alice Clegg's actual Flagship, the Honeymoon Cruiser, all can attack and destroy this E-strain Fleet if they are creative enough.

The solar system is empty except for the dying star and the fleet. It is believed to not be supported by any starfighters or other defenses. The sun in this system gives off no light.

The Flagship of Alice Clegg is not just named that. It is guaranteed that any who can find a way onboard this ship will find Alice Clegg and her Lover T'ronde Vale there. Anyone who destroys the Flagship will never learn its secrets.

This mission is open to All Players.

Post your plan to this mission on either the defenders or attacker's side here on this thread only. First person to post gets a single extra repost later to launch secret attacks, ambushes etc. All other players get one post only. This thread will be locked at 11pm E.S.T. on Friday May 27th. Only actions listed on this mission thread will count as locked in for player actions.

You are encouraged to set up threads in your own factions to discuss this matter.

Lt Ryuk is preparing a [computer] virus to infect The Bloom ships with the Unity coders Prime has lent to him. The virus primary function is disabling weapons, shields, and engines. The Secondary function is to copy all information in the databanks of the bloom ships to Lt Ryuks flagship for analysis.

The virus will be delivered In a ship from her command ship (more to come in second post)

Lt Ryuk

The Prisoner was torturing himself as he waited for the hatch to open on the Boarding port.
He was still a monster. Foolishly, he had passed up a chance to be saved from the larva growing in his head. The Prisoner sneezed. He nearly cut his face off with a monstrous talon while trying to wipe his nostrils.
He hated being a Magnavore. But right now it would be worth it. Was it a real chance at Alice Clegg? The woman who had imprisoned him and tortured him for the evil Angel D.
The Prisoner hoped he could hide himself from the Manslayers, the larva in his head was technically from their hive. The Prisoner waited for the hatch to open. God forgive him for what he was about to do.
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Plans- I want to lead a boarding force in to Cleggs ship if Ryuk let's me. If I catch Clegg and her boyfriend I want to beat them up but not kill them then bring them unconscious back to Ryuks ship.
Above all else I can't let myself die so I will give a finger to Ryuk for conversion.
If Ryuk has a better plan I will help out but I want to land on Cleggs ship.

Palomedes adjusted his uniform. The apprehension of Alice Clegg had been a goal ever since the Angels of Desolation had captured and tortured the respected IR Captain. Palomedes needed to know if there was any part of the once loyal Captain Cleg left inside the magnavore.

He commanded two IR Heavy Frigates to approach the bloom fleet. They will fire their Domebusters to try and draw the Bloom Ships out of their formation. Once the Bloom Ships leave formation, the Frigates will with draw.

At this point Palomedes will signal to Deer and Unitys forces for the pincer attack.
The signal will be broadcast as a news reel showing the funeral the IR had for Captain Clegg when
she was believed to be dead. Palomedes hopes that will prevent Captain Clegg from trying to jam the signal.

If Kasanthian forces are there they will be allowed to leave the battle unharmed as long as they stay far away from Palomedes' vessels.

A force of two City of the God class ships, four Dusk class destroyers, two Barnoade class carries, three Kalvara class and two Kalino class ships will enter the system once the infiltrator bloom ships IFF beacon broadcasts. A group of 24 fireship drones (armed with EMPs) will jump into the midst of the fleet and attack the nearest bloom ships. The Dusk class ships and the fighters and carrier based drones will provide a screen while the Kalvara, Kalino and City of the Gods class ships engage the bloom ships at long range using capital missiles (EMP and anti-ship) and domebusters. Care will be taken to be on separate vector from the IR and Unity forces so as to attempt to split the bloom ship fleet as much as possible. The goal of this force is two fold. 1. To secure an exit vector for the infiltrator and Loins of Earth boarders should they take the command ship or if they are forced to withdraw. 2. To attempt to break up any bloom ship formations and thus leave them more vulnerable to attack. The main battle will be left to the Unity and IR forces. If in danger of being over run the fleet will withdraw once the loins and the infiltrator are secure.

I will have set up several void shrap metal traps arround the battle area. 40 nodachis will be sent to draw the bloomships away or to try and herd them torward the void traps. the nodachi's will use there acid cannons as aposed to there wings. as they pass through, the traps will be sprung. I will also have two (2) other Nodachis hiding, armed with void bombs, if they can get a clear shot that will not hurt any Trilat or other allies ships they will deploy there weapon. also, as long as the IR and EEF don't attack Trilat ships or allies, no attacks will be made on them. nodachi will be instructed to avoid them and the void metal traps will not be used on IR and EEF ships either. Alice Clegg's flag ship will be left for Lt. Ryuk.

Uloh will be sending in the Devil's Elation, a E-strain bloomship altered with the Stuben retrovirus. This craft has been making runs to Estrain planets and can pass thru the fleet as one of their own.
It's sole mission is to locate Alice Clegg's flagship and send the location to the Lions of earth and EEF forces. As soon as it has located the ship, it will send an encrypted signal to allied forces and then proceed to exit the rear of the conflict zone. It will proceed to a safe distance and activate its EEF beacon to prevent friendly fire.

It will also act as a spotter forces the Angel's Descent. If signalled by either the Lions of Earth or EEF forces, it will send coordinates to the Angel's Descent to warp in either a forces of 1 megaladon and 60 Piranha Fighter to act as a back stop force to prevent the escape of the E-strain forces.

Using the Galaxy drive of the Angel's Descent, uloh will open wormhole escape routes for the Lions of Earth and EEF forces upon request.

Prime smiles, looking at Palomedes tactics. They were elegent in their simplicity. Palomedes did not waste time explaining what he was going to do, but instead did it, knowing that the Unity would respond to such an excellent tactical opportunity.

Prime, of course, would. These E-strain had proven themselves to be disorganized, unworthy of the mantle they had once worn as Angel D's greatest weapon. Now they were as so much dross.

As a cloud of E-strain vessels pursue the Iron Republic frigates, 10 Dreadnaughts and 500 Saggitae will scream through 10 large rips in space around the Bloom Ships. The Saggitae will form into formations of 10, using precision to strike the pulsing cores of these vessels. The ensuing chaos will ripple across the entire Bloom Ship Fleet, which is when the second wave will strike.

In the distance, behind the Iron Republic fleet, two small black holes in space appeared. Through them thrust hundreds of cruelly pointed black metal limbs, and then those limbs stretched the portals outward. Behind them was a vision of horrifying silver structures with thousands of these black legs, dwarfing the size of the portals they had made. It was hard to make out the impossible geometry of these Unity Extensions, though, as a soft chime sounded and massive beams of energy erupted from the portals. These searing beams of white light tore through Bloom Ship ranks. After a short time, the Extensions withdrew, having done their damage. Each vessel was then swept, on the remote chance that anything had gotten through the barrage.

Captain Grant read the operations order again trying to commit every detail to memory. They were o nboard a sleek black as night stealth SAV in one of the docking bays of the Uloh bloom ship two other similiar ships were docked next to them. At one time it looks like the bloom ship had been a medium banking guild frigate, since then bio organic organs and conduits had sprouted from it growing into a large alien starfish like ship. The Captain knew that an encrypted microburst IFF transmitter would let their allies know where they were when the fighting broke out.

The plan for was simple. The Uloh Bloomship would loiter behind and around enemy lines searching for the flagship as well as indicators of the E-strains plan. Once located the Bloom ship would pass close enough to expel the Stealth SAVs. The boarding party consisted of a platoon of hardened heavy Lions and a platoon of Blackheart STRIKE contractors. They would board the mothership and with the help of Blackheart contractors take control of the ship and capture Alice Clegg and bring her to justice.

Extraction would be either linking back up with the Uloh ship or a hot extraction back to the EEF fleet. The latter was a worrying thought.

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Colonel Griffin, the acting Lion Commander stood on the bridge of the Lion's Pride. The City of Gods class Cruiser was humming with life. General Quarters had been sounded as they had pulled into formation with the rest of the fleet. All of the Lion's were at their battle stations, patient and ready. The Pride's fighter escort fighters danced around the heavy ship. They were strictly on the defensive.

The Pride wouldn't be on the front lines though. Vulfrym was clear about that. The ship would provide support by fire from the rear for the attack elements of the joint fleet. The Pride would only push through the lines to rescue the boarding team if all other options failed.

The commanders order indicated to expect Iron Republic, Unity, and even K-fed elements closing in on Clegg. General Vulfrym had been just as astounded as every other EEF commanders gathered.
The wrath of the entire universe was closing in on Alice Clegg and the Angels of desolation.

As K'voth Terex meditated he felt the larva in his head almost wiggle. he could feel the consciousnesses of the Manslayers on board. The Overlord Larva took some getting used to but now it was almost comforting feeling its caress across his thoughts. The STRIKE Operators got along really well with the Uloh manslayers on board the Bloom ship. Having studied extensively at the Wylanda E-Strain Understanding Center K'voth knew a bit of their alien etiquette and the overlord implants let them communicate with willing manslayers via the hive mind.

Now though sitting aboard the Stealth SAV he kept his focus on the present willing the overlord implant into temporary dormancy. Like holding his eyes closed, except metaphysically.

His squad was sitting across from a Squad of Heavy Lions. unlike the Ex-lions in Blackheart these were battle hardened carrying high powered plasma rifles and heavy armor. They kept to themselves outside of the training rehearsals when they were as protective as a mama grizzly. Their job was to protect the STRIKE Teams at all costs.

Once on board the STRIKE Teams would use the overlord implants to either force the E-strain to retreat, or turn Cleggs manslayers against each other. The lions would do the "Heavy Lifting" of securing the Bridge, and engine room.

Once secured, and if Alice Clegg was no where to be found, the STRIKE Teams would sweep the ship looking for her.

K'voth was worried about other factions boarding as they were told to expect everyone to show up. If they all had the same goal though, hopefully it wouldn't come to violence.

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They were the steel falcon fighter wings. T'ren Spears watched the magestic Lions Pride as it joined the massed EEF Formation. Her wing and their sister checked in, and she made comms with both her employer the Pride, and EEF Command net. Both wings were composed of Stillettos that had been quickly retrofitted with Aegis Chill missiles. Their mission was to be their in case "Oh shit" happened.

If the Uloh bloomship got into serious trouble, or the boarding party needed a hot extraction. They would burn at ridiculous velocity to get to them and get them out of trouble. Over half the ships in formation had Ydyara pilots, unlike her, who as a Kiorn was extremely susceptible to the G's and had to wear a bulky pressure suit to stay conscious, they kind of giggled at forces that would cause even the hardiest pilot to blackout. They could push their ships harder and most were extremely proficient pilots.

If "oh shit" happened she was glad the blob like aliens would be on her wing tips.

Ryuk's preparations were neatly complete. Would everything come together, or will everything fall apart? Concerns danced inside his head as he readied his weapons.
When was the last time he did this? Ryuk wondered. It seemed ages since he left Refuge, so much has happened since then. He unfolds a towel, and deftly starts dismantling his springshot rifle. Going over each piece, he ascertains the wear of the parts. Everything looks good, and he checks the strength of the leyas artifices into the weapon, the fire and shadow strength is as good as it ever was. Continuing on Ryuk pulls out a whetstone, and moves on to his knifes. He remembers the dragon, named Blinky, to which these knifes are made of. He killed Blinky two or three times, ah the simpler times when politics weren't an issue. Two of his blades need sharpening, when was the last time he did this? As he swept the blade rhythmically acrossed the stone, his thoughts moved onto his time in space. I have done so much, and screwed up so much more, Ryuk thought. Finishing with the first knife he moved onto the second. What had he accomplished? What is he known for? The first thing that comes to mind, is the action with the star and the fleet. Is it so wrong? Why was everyone so upset? There was so much he just didn't understand. A little bit of hope shined through, with the thought that all of this will be coming to a conclusion soon. He dared hope that he would capture Clegg. With the second knife done, he moves onto his armour, grabbing his Death head helm, he starts his examination. Remembering how he received this from a fleshstealer, who was unable to use it, after being shot in the head twice. Since then, this helmet has save him from death, here is the gouge from were the Uthvelor tried to kill him, here a dent from a cyborg slamming him into a wall. So much work has gone into finding Clegg, and it has been difficult at times. This time he has had help, with the mysterious DPrisioner00200 being the greatest help in this trying time. Is he doing it just for revenge, or is he actually help me to help me Ryuk wondered. Yr and Prime have also helped so much, he thought, but a twinge of incompetence flairs. They seem so sure of themselves, and capable of doing everything the moment they wish. One day, I will be there, Ryuk promised himself. Setting his helmet down, he picks up his breastplate. Tracing the outline of an energy blast, he is reminded of what the Uth told him, That that was from being killed when he was working as a mercenary, which afterwards his memory of the event was stripped. No time to worry about that now, time is running short, soon he will have to leave.

Ryuk sits crossed leg down and extends his hands out. He starts going through exercises he developed to calm him, and to practice his leyas abilities. Rotating his left hand up, quickly creates a flame. Flipping his hand over he extinguishes the first flame and creates a second in his right hand. Faster and faster Ryuk willed each flame in and out of existence. Thoughts of his time with the Uth, when he was asking about his past. The Uth, before he attacked, stated something about an unnatural birth. This would put his "birth" at during the end of the Border Wars. Ryuk started combining the fire with shadow creating chilling black flames, and started the exercise over again. Ryuk was coming to terms with this startling revelation, and it bothered him less and less. Ryuk was realizing he could become whoever he wanted to be, and didn't have to worry about far past mistakes hurting him in the future.

Making fist, Ryuk extended his arms. He started to create balls of flame and shadow around his arms and spin them, alternating between pure fire, fire/shadow , and shadow. For the mission with the capture of Clegg, there are many unknowns. At least there is a tentative non aggression agreement between some in the IR and Kansantians and Unity, this will make things easier if if holds up during battle. Running through the plan in his head he envisions the attack to Alice Clegg's ship. Knowing exactly which one it is he should be able to make a beeline, especially with the codes to enter the ship. With Admiral Yr moving the ship with shadow drives, moving the ship to a location outside of the rest, will make taking the flag ship easy. His ship will fly strait to it and dock, immediately after Yr's ship will lock on and move it. Ryuk stopped the flames, and closed his eyes. He was working on a new trick. He practiced hardening the skin on his forearms, and adding fire and shadow to them. He wasn't much of a brawler, but in a pinch this should do. When entering the ship, He had primes trials, and will be taking 20 of Ryuk's Rabble in his group. Dprisoner00200 will also be there. The rest of Ryuk's rabble will be split between his larger ships entering the frey, and on board the command ship, cleaning the holds of everyone that is there. Ryuk stopped practicing with the leyas, and stood up. Its almost time, and Ryuk started to put on his armour. He started to give the orders, and made sure every one is on the same page. opening up his pouch, he put 25 leyas generators inside of it, in case something horrible goes wrong, he has the energy flow to make things happen.

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I am sending 7 Dreadnaughts, 3 kansantian missile ships, and my heavy frigate (flagship) , 200 jogtun mark 2, 100 stillettos, and 100 yrs starfighters. I will fly down with my boarding party that includes Dprisoner00200 and primes 4 soldiers. My ships will fire on any getting in the way of Yrs ships she provided, and after cleggs flagship is gone, provide support and cover for the members of the TRILAT. Splitting off into groups to search and kill all who is on board, except Clegg and her Lover. Ryuks rabble will be spread out throughout the ships, providing as much support as possible, except for 1000 that will be searching Cleggs flagship. The groups will be split into 4 combat and 1 engineering , with the engineering providing barriers to hid behind and impede the enemy, with the combat leyas users doing what the do best.

If something happens and Yrs ships don't arrive, Ryuk will open his pouch and shadow walk the ship to as close to Marduk as possible

If Clegg is captured, She will be transfer to Marduk, where half my fleet will end up, I her lover is captured, he will be sent to anywhere dprisioner00200 wants.

"I will send in two Behemoths charging into the heart of their fleet. They will split into their component asteroids and each will plant themselves on the closest Bloom Ship. Then their holds will be triggered. Each will have a Shadow Drive in their hold. They will activate them, jumping the Bloom ship far away. I can open you some maneuvering space, Ryuk, but taking the ship will be your task."

Adjusted plan for Ryuk. I will send three to Command ship to teleport it away once Ryuks boarding party has succeeded in docking and boarding. It will be sent to Marduk.

I have great expectations Ryuk. Make the TRILAT proud today!

As the unity extensions finalized their beam weaponry attacks and retreated into the void, new portals would arise from behind. Unleashing upon the battle theater the might of Beacon City. Leading the charge was "Freedom's Haste", the "The Warrior's Faith", and "Spirit of S'vana". Behind these three arcturus warships followed almost the full force of Garmin Fe's fleet.

Garmin Fe's orders where simple, "We need to quell the E-Strain forces and clear the path to the Wromhole of Fate. With that fleet in the way, there will be great difficulty in countering the greater threat that hangs over us all."

[Garmin will deploy 16 Arcturus Warships and 4 Unity Dreadnaughts as well as 300 Jotun and 300 Sagitae. 300 Surge platforms divided among 10 capitol ship-sized asteroids will also follow in the center of the fleet and be utilized by the 300 Jotun fighters as weapon platforms. The Sagitae will stay in formations of 10 to secure the safety of the fleet and chase down enemy crafts attempting to leave. They will utilize the opening made by the Unity extensions to make their way to center of the fleet and unleash the orbital weaponry of the platforms.]

Seeing so many turn against the E Strain including their former allies who turned against them so suddenly caused mixed feelings inside Hive Queen Ar'Yay as she watched her fleet moving out from Kyrpos. It was interesting to see how fast one's allies abandoned the people they were sworn to defend such a short time before. While she was happy to see the servants of the Ancient Evils brought low who would be next? Most fighting here weren't fighting to protect the fabric of reality just for their petty desires. After Angel D is gone, will they group together to face the problems of Warmonger? Will it matter? Seeing what she has seen about how the Trilat members "help" others made her shudder. It reminded her about how the Hive Queen Council worked and that did not bode well for the different dimensions.

Oh well, time to focus on the task at hand. The fleet was broken up into several groups would come in separated by one minute each. Each fleet shall jump in a different part of the battle trying to form a circle around the enemy forces. Concentrating on keeping the E Strain fleet in the center and try to surround them.
The first wave would be made up of 250 Neo Flayer Fightercraft and 5 Quall Destroyers, they would come in first and begin bombarding with their long range Dome Busters with the fighters weaving in and out striking at Bloom ships with their nano whips.

The Second wave consists of 250 Quall Interceptors and 5 Quall Destroyers will jump in and engage the enemy. The Interceptors shall grab ahold of the enemy ships with their grapple lines and begin to pound them with their melt metal cannons and fireball cannons in 5 groups of 50 while supported by one Destroyer each with their Dome Busters and orbital lasers.

The Third wave consists of 250 Quall Interceptors, 5 Quall Destroyers and 1 Mothership "The Molten Spear" Which shall mimic the actions of group 2 with the exception of the "The Molten Spear" who shall launch a massive wave of Dome Busters, Plasma Cannons, and EMP missiles an attempt to disable/destroy as many Bloom ships as possible while launching its Raptors who shall strafe the Bloom ships with their plasma cannons and missiles.

The Fourth and final wave shall consist of 250 Quall Interceptors, 5 Quall Destroyers, and 10 Quall Light Frigates. This Fleet shall have a special mission, their job is to take note of what the other factions are sending and try to identify who is sending what and how, a careful inspection of their tactics uploading everything they see to the Hive Mind.
The Interceptors and the Destroyers shall form a protective formation around the Quall Light Frigates and the Light Frigates shall form a vertical circle with the hole facing forward. The Quall N'Drone on the ship shall concentrate and create an energy Bridge in the center of the fleet, they shall point the center of the Energy Bridge toward an enemy Bloom Ship and then from the other side of the energy bridge tens of thousands of Quall N'Drone shall raise large mansion sized chunks of Obsidian from the lava sea, they shall form a globe of lava around it and manipulating the lava to hold the large obsidian boulder they shall hurl it through the energy bridge into the space battle to collide with an enemy Bloom Ship.
Once one enemy ship is hit the Light Frigates shall reorient the portal toward the next enemy ship using the circle of Light Frigates as the frame of the energy bridge and continuously launch more and more magma coated obsidian boulders at more and more bloom ships. They shall continue until the enemy fleet is destroyed and then withdraw to Kyrpos with the rest of the fleet.

Le-a hive Queen will be sending in 3 Sentry Class Frigates firing from extreme range their domebusters, then they are going to launch their 50 gunpods to shoot at the bloom ships, then they will launch their raptors which will fire both their plasma cannons and missiles at the bloom ships. They will be doing strafing maneuvers at the bloom ships. I will be observing trilat and Ir formations to determine which ship Alice Clegg is on based on the fact that they will not be firing upon the ship so that i will avoid firing on that ship as well.