My ship called the T.T.C Bismarck dove into the star gate straight through the middle along with the rest of the crew including myself and following closely is the twenty something Earth warships and no time to spare for being cautious. With no clue as to where we were to go we venture forwards, the only direction that we know for certain we can go.
On the other side of the gate I make no hesitation in having my ship head away from the gate, not stopping until a good kilometer away as the remainder of the fleet comes through the gate, one after the other.
I count up to seventeen Earth ships before they stop coming through the gate and as the last one sails through it unloads many tiny objects out of its hanger bays. The captain of the ship opens communications to me.
“Captain Murphy all ships behind mine are no more, the mantis caught them before they could reach the gate. Yours is a longest service record out of the seventeen remaining captains so we shall follow your orders.”
“Ok, thank you Captain Hemorix.” I reply, wondering what will happen next.
I ponder for a moment weighing up my options, then I push the comms button and order “Everyone take position around the gate, we’ll kill them blasted fighters as they come out of it.”
One of the other captains says with a shaky voice “We should keep running! Maybe we can get away from them!”
“No, if we just keep running they’ll only catch up to us eventually and wear us down until we can fight no more. At least this way we can take plenty of them with us.” I answer back as calmly as I can but with rage still flowing through my veins.
“Ok, your way it is. Let’s give ‘em hell!!!!!”
Mantis Sentinels began seeping through the gate just as the Earth fleet began reassuming their formation around the commanding ship. Out of a two hundred strong fleet that was formed at earth only these seventeen managed to make it through the gate. Ten were heavy frigates; six were of the dreadnaught class, and one, a fully armed and operational battleship that had been almost untouched by the battle above Earth by some grace of god. It sits at the center of the formation within firing range of the gate.
As the mantis start pouring through the gate I give the order to open fire but suddenly out of the blue, Captain Hemorix opens up a channel directly to me and says “Hold on! I had my crew arm some modified torpedoes that weren’t fitted onto the fighters before the battle. We should detonate them first before opening fire and we’ll catch lots of them off guard.”
This is the first part of it, I'll post part two tomorrow I hope you enjoy.
http://forum.pirategalaxy.com/viewtopic.php?f=127&t=12901&p=90556#p90556
On the other side of the gate I make no hesitation in having my ship head away from the gate, not stopping until a good kilometer away as the remainder of the fleet comes through the gate, one after the other.
I count up to seventeen Earth ships before they stop coming through the gate and as the last one sails through it unloads many tiny objects out of its hanger bays. The captain of the ship opens communications to me.
“Captain Murphy all ships behind mine are no more, the mantis caught them before they could reach the gate. Yours is a longest service record out of the seventeen remaining captains so we shall follow your orders.”
“Ok, thank you Captain Hemorix.” I reply, wondering what will happen next.
I ponder for a moment weighing up my options, then I push the comms button and order “Everyone take position around the gate, we’ll kill them blasted fighters as they come out of it.”
One of the other captains says with a shaky voice “We should keep running! Maybe we can get away from them!”
“No, if we just keep running they’ll only catch up to us eventually and wear us down until we can fight no more. At least this way we can take plenty of them with us.” I answer back as calmly as I can but with rage still flowing through my veins.
“Ok, your way it is. Let’s give ‘em hell!!!!!”
Mantis Sentinels began seeping through the gate just as the Earth fleet began reassuming their formation around the commanding ship. Out of a two hundred strong fleet that was formed at earth only these seventeen managed to make it through the gate. Ten were heavy frigates; six were of the dreadnaught class, and one, a fully armed and operational battleship that had been almost untouched by the battle above Earth by some grace of god. It sits at the center of the formation within firing range of the gate.
As the mantis start pouring through the gate I give the order to open fire but suddenly out of the blue, Captain Hemorix opens up a channel directly to me and says “Hold on! I had my crew arm some modified torpedoes that weren’t fitted onto the fighters before the battle. We should detonate them first before opening fire and we’ll catch lots of them off guard.”
This is the first part of it, I'll post part two tomorrow I hope you enjoy.
http://forum.pirategalaxy.com/viewtopic.php?f=127&t=12901&p=90556#p90556