The Second Dinosaur War (Sci-Fi/OPEN for all)

[Zeloria]

"I need to buy more time, and I know how. What if we used a planet as cover again, and let the Dinosaurs attack. We can then concentrate our firepower to one side, so they can't easily surround us."

-M.A.I

[Zeloria]

"Hello, the Covert AI is here. We have reason to believe that the Dinosaur Empire is trying to build a super-weapon, that they call "The God-Modder". We will conduct more research to find out what this "God-Modder" does."

- C.A.I

[Qhevak]

Star's Star

Eighty-four derivatives of what was formerly AI billionaire playboy Jonathan Holst drifted half a light week out from Star's Star, their four hundred meter long ovoid bodies bathing in the light wash of sunlight at this distance as they waited for the rest of their myriad selves to arrive. There was no real reason that that his hundred wandering selves had chosen this spot for this decennial reunion - might have been due to the rather quirky name - but it had seemed as good as any, and at the time it was quite empty of any disturbances. Unfortunately, that time was not the present.

"Personally I just hope both teams have fun." thought the newly female Jasmine Holst 27, peering into the morass of high energy physics that filled the inner system with her extensive arrays of hyperspectral sensors. "Ooh, are they trying to cover behind a planet? Not a very sustainable strategy in my view, but if they can make it work, good for them." Some of the other Holsts sighed. Holst 27 had spent the last few decades doing mercenary work and it showed, both internally and in the massive missile pods bolted to her usually spotless hull.

"Do we know why this war's going on?" thought Jonathan Holst 92, who only three weeks prior had nearly been devoured by an unfathomable elder monstrosity around a vyre corpse star in deepest Gamma. "I'm not saying we should intervene, but it'd at least be nice to know."

"A bunch of fashy fuckfaces thought they were really smart breaking off from a perfectly nice alliance of commie dinos" replied Jonathan Holst 5, hull still loaded with surplus cocaine from a recent smuggling op. "They can both suck it as far as I'm concerned, but at least commies won't try and bust me for this blow".

"I concur", Jasmine Holst 27 replied. "Though more because the commies seem outnumbered in this engagement. I prefer fighting for the underdog, it's more exciting. The Empire's forces seem very focused on the Zelorians right now too, we should be able to get in a nice flank if we strike now. Anyone not volunteering to help, take our mind backups and then fuck off."

63 of the Holsts volunteered, with the other 21 loading in the present mindstates of the others, before promptly shooting away from the system at top warp.

"Alright then - let's rock!" said Holst 27. The sixty-three ovoid starships entered warp for a few, brief seconds, before returning to real space two light-seconds away behind the Dinosaur Empire fleet. The fleets entered the engagement with a bang, glowing red droplet radiators extending out kilometers, while phased arrays blasted out hundred of gigawatts of EM radiation, jamming Empire sensors with a massive multispectral barrage. Centreline particle accelerators blasted out terajoule pulses of ultrarelativistic electrons, aiming for the engines on the exposed rears of the Imperial warships.

[Remulia]

—News about the battle?
—Sir, apparently, a new faction is attacking the dinos.
—Oh, that's going to hurt them and someone would be very angry. Let's accelerate this fleet: we don't want to arrive late to the party.
—Aye, aye, miss.

The imperial fleet accelerates enough to arrive in 15 minutes, everybody was ready to fight.

[Zeloria]

"A new faction? This certainly got even more interesting. Now lets destroy the Dinosaur fleet, by attacking them from every single side."

- M.A.I

The Zelorian fleet gets out of cover, and starts shooting again at the Dinosaur fleet.

[The empire of dragons]

—What happened?—yells the captain of one of the ships when he noticed they stopped.
—Sir, our engines were damaged by some kind of electronic weapon by an unknown enemy and i think they jammed our sensors.
—WHAT?. If that is true, we are so f..

Command ship.

—I see— said the General in charge of the invasion fleet —to all ships that weren't affected by the pulse: evasive maneuvers and avoid the enemy fire: fire at will.

The saurian fleet, while trying to dodge enemy fire, fired their railguns at full power at the enemy ships. 30 more Saurian ships were destroyed by Zelorian fire, most of them had their engines damaged. The general had planned to hold out long enough for the reinforcement fleets, which were on their way, to just tip the balance in their favor, yet everyone still prayed that the Remulians would not arrive in time: if two fleets were giving them similar beating, three fleets would tear them to pieces.

[Zeloria]

"They can't evade our fire, IF WE FIRE EVERYWHERE! At the Dinosaurs, not literally everywhere please."

-M.A.I

[Zeloria]

Meanwhile, during the battle of Star's Star, there is an increase of Dinosaur attacks on villages on the Superion ringworld. C.A.I thinks that its the work of the Dinosaur Empire.

[Imperium Arcanum]

Imperium Arcanum will support the Dinosaur Empire. We are committing five full legions to the conflict as part of Strike Force Shadowblade, under the personal command of Emperor Calixus.

We ask the Dinosaur Empire where they need assistance, and if we can send an Imperial Nuncio (ambassador) to liaise with them.

[Zeloria]

"Oh crap, more nations are getting involved, this is slowly escalating into a galactic war. Lets hope the Remulian fleet arrives before the Arcanumian does."

-M.A.I

[The empire of dragons]

Imperium Arcanum will support the Dinosaur Empire. We are committing five full legions to the conflict as part of Strike Force Shadowblade, under the personal command of Emperor Calixus.

We ask the Dinosaur Empire where they need assistance, and if we can send an Imperial Nuncio (ambassador) to liaise with them.

From: The Dinosaur Empire
To: Imperium Arcanum

"We are glad you decided to join us, at this moment we need help in the Star's Star system because our fleet is recieving damage. If you want, you can send the Imperial Nuncio.
sincerely grateful...
The Dino Emperor"

"They can't evade our fire, IF WE FIRE EVERYWHERE! At the Dinosaurs, not literally everywhere please."

-M.A.I

—Those Zelorians think they can destroy us with such a dirty tactict, lets show them— were the last words of the captain of a battleship before it was destroyed by the combined fire of the Zelorians and Qhevak fleets, also, 2 battleships, 10 destroyers and a dreagnought were also destroyed in the attack.
The dinosaur fleet at this moment was composed only by 90 corvettes, 32 destroyers, 28 cruisers, 1 battleship and 3 dreagnoughts and these last ones shows signs of extreme damage in all their sides.

—SOLDIERS—Yelled the general in charge —FIRE EVERYTHING AT THE ENEMEY SHIPS, FULL POWER..NOW, LETS USE "MANEUVER 13B".
The surviving ships rallied at one point and fired hard at their enemies.

[Remulia]

The imperial ships arrived after 5 minutes taking the dinosaur empire by surprise, which did not expect them to arrive so early.
—Status of the Battle?—Asked Illia, the general in charge of the Imperial fleet.
—At first glance, it appears that all three fleets have taken damage, but the saurians are seen to have taken more damage.
—Open a channel to the other two fleets: "Hello there, i hope we aren't late for the party. Wouldn't you mind if we joined?"

The Imperial ships shot their desintegrator rifles against the dino fleet, also, they shot plasma against them. because of the distance between the other three fleets, the Remulians decided not to use their gravity guns.

[Qhevak]

INBOUND: HYPERVELOCITY KINETIC PROJECTILES

The 63 AI warships reacted almost instantly to the news of the incoming kinetic killers, temporarily dropping their individuality to merge into a full-scale combat hivemind as the lethality of the situation fully presented itself. Processing power raised orders of magnitude as their minds linked together, stripping away all but the slightest reminders of self to free up as much space as possible for tactical efficiency. They ran through the incoming encounter hundreds of times in simspace to achieve optimal evasion, ultimately managing to get losses from the first salvo down to 3 craft assuming reasonable point defense efficacy. Holsts 2, 19 and 39 volunteered to be the sacrificial totems, transmitting engrams of their present mindstates to the others before barrages of hyperkinetic darts turned them to shredded metal and rapidly dispersing gas.

"Fuck" thought 5 in a brief burst of individuality. It had been 3 meetings since a Holst had last been lost, and it appeared likely they'd soon lose even more. The 60 remaining ships continued jamming away with their phased arrays and firing with their particle beams - Holst 27, meanwhile, realizing the urgency of the situation, released the majority of her available missile pods, which drifted a few kilometers from her hull before sending 200 Super Genie standoff missiles screaming towards the opponent, nuclear salt water rockets blazing hot with radioactive fire. As the missiles approached to within a few tens of thousands of kilometers of the Empire ships, losing many to point defense, they unleashed a storm of submunitions would which promptly detonated, each one sending a nuclear pumped SNAK hyperkinetic dart screaming towards the Empire warships.

[The empire of dragons]

things were not looking good for the dinosaurs: the remulian attack had destroyed 20 corvettes, 12 destroyers, 14 cruisers ,1 battleship and 1 dreagnoughts and the Qhevak warships attack had destroyed another 31 corvettes, 14 destoyers and 10 cruisers leaving the Saurian fleet with 39 corvettes, 6 destroyers, 4 cruisers and 1 dreagnought and the last one was very damaged. The general though their next movement: he wll use the remaining ships to cover the dreagnought while it will move far away from the battlefield to the star, hoping that the brightness of the star would hide them long enough to make a strong counterattack..

Near the star

The sauric reinforcements had arrived (70 corvettes, 50 destroyers, 40 cruisers, 27 battleships and 10 dreagnoughts) and were using the system star as a hideout.
—Very well—said the commander of the reinforcements, —it seems that General Dingo is in great trouble and that we are going to get him out.
—what are your orders sir?
—Let's focus all the fire on the two allied fleets of the Zelorians, maybe the poor dingo can use what is left of his fleets to destroy the Zelorian fleet.

The order was carried out with precision, and a blast of fire was directed quickly towards the enemy ships of the empire.

[Zeloria]

The ZFSN sends more reinforcements to Star's Star. Another fleet, with the same layout as the one we previously sent: 100 corvettes, 70 destroyers, 40 cruisers, 10 battleships and 1 dreadnought. It will take a while before their here, but in meantime, the Zelorians launched fighters, and bombers to the saurian ships, to get close and personal.

[Imperium Arcanum]

The Arcanian fleet arrives at Star's Star through the warp. 500 starships come out of the warp to aid the Dinosaur Empire, raining down missiles and lasers on the enemy.

At the same time, the ground chapters of the 2nd Legion (600,000 soldiers) deploys onto the planet itself, to bolster it's defences.

The Imperial Nuncio, Sir Evan Challis, had arrived at the Dinosaur command centre. He asks what assistance is needed. If the Dinosaur Empire wishes, our Imperial Rangers can help train their armed forces.

[Zeloria]

Point-defense systems took care of the missile's, but the lasers hits the fleet pretty hard. 16 corvettes and 5 destroyers are down. The dreadnought charges its hyperbeam again.

[The empire of dragons]

The Arcanian fleet arrives at Star's Star through the warp. 500 starships come out of the warp to aid the Dinosaur Empire, raining down missiles and lasers on the enemy.

At the same time, the ground chapters of the 2nd Legion (600,000 soldiers) deploys onto the planet itself, to bolster it's defences.

The Imperial Nuncio, Sir Evan Challis, had arrived at the Dinosaur command centre. He asks what assistance is needed. If the Dinosaur Empire wishes, our Imperial Rangers can help train their armed forces.

The two dinosaur fleets were grateful for the contingent of the Arcanian Empire that had arrived: now they could exert great pressure against their enemies.
The soldiers on the planet celebrated the arrival of the imperial troops as they prepared to attack the Zelorian troops that were strongly entrenched while in the Saurian command center, they welcomed the Imperial Nuncio and not only told him that they were grateful for the forces that were supporting them but also accepted that their imperial rangers would train the Saurian armed forces.

[Zeloria]

"So, a lot of action is going on in Star's Star. What if I send a fleet, but not to where all the fighting is happening, but to... lets say... Pasalan. The defenses are light, because all the attention is in the Star's Star system. We are sending a fleet of 50 corvettes, 35 destroyers, 20 cruisers and 5 battleships to it."

- M.A.I

Meanwhile in Star's Star itself, Zelorian reinforcements has arrived, and starts with shooting on the Arcanian fleet, with more plasma-cannons, while the point-defense systems shoots down as many missiles as it could. The Zelorian dreadnought shot its hyperbeam at a Dinosaur dreadnought.

[The empire of dragons]

—You know?—Asked the Dino Emperor to the Imperial Nuncio —i think that our forces in the Pasalan system and HD 420691336 system are vulnerable at this moment. Maybe you can send fleets and forces there to reinforce our defense troops.

Meanwhile, the Dino dreagnought couldn't moved quick to avoid the hyperbeam of the Zelorian ship, destroying it. the other dreagnoughts decided to shot their own hyperbeans against the Zelorian dreagnoughts.

[Zeloria]

The Dinosaur hyperbeams destroyed the dreadnought. M.A.I meanwhile had a plan to send a bunch of transport shuttles full of robotic spec-op soldiers to a Dinosaur dreadnought, in order to hijack it.

[Imperium Arcanum]

The 57th and 58th legions will go to defend Pasalan with 200 ships. The 99th and 100th legions will push forward into Zelorian space.

We will send a company of wardens trained in starship security to fight off the robot soldiers on the Dinosaur dreadnought.

The Imperial forces will push forward in the Battle of Star's Star.

[Zeloria]

The ZFSN sends a bigger fleet of 300 corvettes, 100 destroyers, 50 cruisers, 20 battleships, and 3 dreadnoughts to HD-420691336 in an effort to blitz the defenses there, and create an opening to the core-territory of the Dinosaurs.

Meanwhile in Star's Star, a transport shuttle, escorted by 30 fighters, and 4 bombers, is approaching a Saurian dreadnought. The bombers, and some fighters try to get close to the dreadnoughts turrets close to hangar/airlock in order to destroy them. This should create a safe passage to the entrance of the ship to drop our robotic spec-ops.

In the Zelorian-controlled HD-23, and NGC 6666 systems, interstellar radars detect incoming Arcanian ships. Reinforcements will be send immediately. The fleet that got send to Pasalan are starting to retreat back to HD-23 to defend it from the Arcanians.

[Remulia]

The Remulian fleet was taking a lot of damage from the Dinosaur and Arcanum attacks. Ilia ordered 50 ships to move to HD-23 and 50 ships to move to NGC 6666 to reinforce that position.
—What is going to be our next movement, miss?
—I think we can use the God rods to bombard enemy positions on the planet and, one question; How far away are enemy ships from friendly ships?
—The dinosaur ships are at 12 km and the other ships are at 21 km, miss
—Good, my orders: Ship ISS Thanatos, ISS Starhammer and ISS Jellyfish to get as close as possible and fire their gravity guns to the enemy fleets.How is our structural integrity?
—The structure resists, but I don't think it will last long.

The Imperial ships on the battlefield shot their lasers to cover the three ships who were approaching shooting distance to fire their gravity guns.

[Zeloria]

The robotic spec-ops soldier has arrived in the dreadnought, and is trying to fight their way to the bridge. Hopefully they have arrived on the dreadnought before the Arcanium wardens.

The big Zelorian fleet that got send to HD-420 has arrived, and starts firing their plasma-railguns, and laserbeams on Dinosaur positions.