Against the frankly ridiculous amount of fighters, the enemy fleet didn't stand a chance but still a couple hundred of the Vionix fighters were wiped out but they were acceptable losses, this was war after all and all had to be given to ensure survival. The bigger fleet, numbering around 38,000 now dropped back from the last of the enemy fighters as they dropped the formation breakers. Thankfully, having only 400 fighters, it would be impossible to stop almost 100 times their own number and as such the Sword Classes, the most bountiful, shot forwards and intercepted the shields, allowing themselves to be caught and stopped while allowing the rest of the fighter screen to be untouched and still harry the enemy. Unfortunately they did not have Jump Drives but they did have teleportation as the Anrufe would find out.
Of course, the Anrufe weren't going to let the remainder of the fighters who hadn't been caught in the Formation Breaking Shields simply FTL to the planet to join the fight there. No, that would defeat the entire purpose of having a fleet of fighters on the edge of the solar system. With the Sword Classes held up, they had to deal with the rest of the fighters at the edge of the system. So, what did they bring out next?
They started charging their Decay Fields, of course.
This teleportation took the form of a single Kunai Class fighter launched from Shimmering Dawn that was to bring the strange object away from the star. The fighter done this by keeping away from all combat and diverting almost all power to shielding, it only needed to survive less than a second after all. After a few seconds, teleport co-ordinates were plotted and the ship vanished, when it reappeared from its jump it tapped the Star Bomb and then jumped again and away from the star, taking the bomb with it and back to its original position. Unfortunately the fighter was damaged by the star's energies but it had moved the bomb thankfully and left the star safe.
Seeing as the Catalyst Star Bomb was inside the Raven fighter (OOC: See my last post), it wouldn't be as easy as the Kunai class fighter anticipated to tag the star bomb and take it away. The Carvenplaren had melted, sure, but the CutFiber inside the fighter had HARDENED from the heat, creating a shell around it. Of course, with this much heat, it wouldn't be hard to break through, but the fact remained that a large, hard shell the size of a Raven fighter, coated with melted metal, surrounded the bomb, and it was unlikely that the Kunai fighter would be able to jump an ENTIRE enemy fighter with it in such a short time in this situation.
Of course, now it knew what was around the bomb, and the Vionnix could easily try the same tactic but send something better prepared into the sun to get the job done. Naturally, though, the Anrufe was well prepared for that possibility. There were more nasty surprises surrounding the bomb waiting for the Vionnix. Getting the bomb out of the sun would be quite the puzzle.
Closer to the planet however, the corvettes would not go unmolested, they still had the massive space stations and the Vionix's own fleet which consisted of several thousands of frigates and corvettes. As soon as the Anrufe Corvettes appeared, Riot Lances and cannons from the stations would fire on them, the cannons would miss but the lances would move fast enough to possibly hit the last few leaving the system. The missiles that they fired did not fare all too well either and were quickly shot down by the overlapping fields of fire that blanketed the entire space around Arcanis III.
Many of the Corvettes were damaged before they could jump away. A total of four were so damaged that their hyperspace window had opened when their FTL drives failed from the damage of the massive amounts of fire. These corvettes now drifted through space, dead, and easy targets for the picking. However; the hyperspace windows that had opened before they could hyperspace away were still there, and radiation was seeping out of them, threatening not only the Anrufe ships but the nearby stations as well.
Shooting down Energy Missiles wouldn't be as easy as the Vionnix had hoped. Normal projectiles would fail to do the trick considering, well, the energy missiles were made of energy. Solid mass just passed right through them. Many of them bombarded into the planet, but would fail to cause much damage, lucky for the Vionnix, seeing as they had been hastily fired with little time for targeting. In fact, many missed the planet all together, flying into the vacuum of space.
This was a problem though, the Anrufe were able to field a large number of smaller vessels it would seem but the Vionix had seen neither hide nor hair of their larger ships. <<All vessels, prepare yourself and your drives, we may need rapid responses here>> The Commanders of the Space Stations sent out to the entire system and all the other frigates and such prepared themselves while a large group of corvettes and frigates sat back with their Hyper Drives charged in case that a rapid response was needed anywhere in the system or any breaches needed to be plugged.
The larger vessels of the Vionix fleet held themselves around Arcanis III, Hyper Drives charged, ready to defend the home planet of the Vionix from any intruders, however something dark was running through the Vionix Commander at the moment. The commander in question was Vice Admiral Mirako Okimo, a male Vionix Admiral with a history of violence but good tactical planning and thoughtfulness. What no one suspected though was that Mirako was an avid hater of Lucien, none knew except him but he hated Lucien and instead wanted to help the Anrufe, after all, he thought, why have more of his damned kind running around? And as such, Mirako was waiting until an Anrufe Capital ship appeared and he would send a message, possibly offering an alliance now that he was the highest ranking official around, with the Emperor really only being a figurehead rather than anything actually important.
((Rampage Lances: 3/3))
((Displacer Burst: 3/6))
((Rift Cannon: 3/18))
Lucky for him, in another part of the system, away from all the fighting, a Super Capital DID appear, well defended and ready to fight. It started to charge up Time Tower Sun, one of the Anrufe's more powerful weapons. It would only be a matter of time before the fun really got started. The first shots had been fired. The first battle was being fought.
(Star Catalyst Bomb: 1/20 posts,
Time Tower Sun: 1/4 Posts,
Decay Fields: 1/2 Posts)
