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Zaodai
May 23, 2009

Death before dishonor?
Your terms are accepted.


Dr. Snark posted:

Well boys, I'm either going to murder the poo poo out of that IC fleet or die trying. For Triton, even if no one has died just yet!

Death and/or Glory! Godspeed.

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Fray
Oct 22, 2010

For those not following on discord, we just murdered their carrier!

Fray fucked around with this message at 06:32 on Jul 13, 2017

Zaodai
May 23, 2009

Death before dishonor?
Your terms are accepted.


Fray posted:

For those not following on discord, we just murdered their carrier!

It was self-defense. :colbert:

Affi
Dec 18, 2005

Break bread wit the enemy

X GON GIVE IT TO YA

Fray posted:

For those not following on discord

Spoil that poo poo please.

Saros
Dec 29, 2009

Its almost like we're a Bureaucracy, in space!

I set sail for the Planet of Lab Requisitions!!

Fray posted:

Spoilers

Yeah if you're posting stuff from discord ahead of me here please spoil it for those who want to enjoy the proper writeup.

Saros
Dec 29, 2009

Its almost like we're a Bureaucracy, in space!

I set sail for the Planet of Lab Requisitions!!



3 April, 1334hrs

After a few minutes the missile cruiser turns off its active and runs to rejoin its friends. Someone must have done the maths about us overtaking them.

3 APril, 1355hrs

The Zuckerburg coming to assist from the reinforcements increases speed to what is probably its max.

3 April, 1503hrs

An hour passes and the range only closes by less than a million km. Stern chases are sloooow.

3 April, 1804hrs

The IC reinforcements come to within active sensor range.


At the same time Naiomi reaches Triton fleet base and begins repairs. It will take nearly two weeks to patch her with current resources but this should be greatly increased by the incoming repair yard.

3 April, 2024 hrs


General Yellerbill become worried about more sorties from the IC fighters and orders a full strike on the Steve Jobs Carrier with his remaining misiles. Reserving only two salvoes for close defense his ships begin to fire.


Sniper4265, Sandman, Veloxyll and Matryoshka are our missile ship captains.


Nine salvoes of 22 missiles each go screaming towards the IC carrier.

3 April 2100hrs

They begin to stream past the first set of IC ships...


Who cheekily reach out with long range weapons and knock a handful down, this repeats every couple of salvoes.

3 April 2103hrs

A few minutes later... impact!


A CIWS roars into life, knocking down four missiles but 16 connect! Shields are down and the armor starts to ablate.


By the third salvo the thin skinned carrier is bleeding air...


Not a good day for our friend.


Fourth salvo...18 hits and the carrier lurches to the side slowing to around 1000kps.


Fifth salvo and uhhhh holy shittt!



One of her engines takes a hit and decides that everything within a thousand kilometers should be thin plasma. That's one hell of an explosion.


Artists impression of the now (extremely dead) Steve Jobs Carrier.


Cheeers ring out across the fleet but a minute later the sensors spot another wave of fighter missiles incoming...


22 are shot down by point defense fire.


Colonel Sad King Billy's Tarnished Fist is the target and she dodges desperately but 51 missiles impact.


Somehow she emerges from the inferno relatively intact but with much of her armor gone.

Sad King Billy insists on accompanying the fleet further, downplaying the damage to his superiors.

3 April 2227hrs

An hour and a half passes as the stern chase continues. The IC ships begin to slowly join up into one conglomerate as their remaining support ships flee.

4 April, 0016hrs

A new day and the IC fleet finally completes it's rondevous, our ships still 16m km distant.


The IC fleet splits with the presumed empty missile ships retreating and the rest turning to come for battle!


Triton fleet likewise reunites into a single force, the plan appears to be to close for close quarters battle on both sides!


Godspeed brave Goons!


Goonfleet in better times...


Its on!

Saros fucked around with this message at 01:54 on Jul 13, 2017

Dr. Snark
Oct 15, 2012

I'M SORRY, OK!? I admit I've made some mistakes, and Jones has clearly paid for them.
...
But ma'am! Jones' only crime was looking at the wrong files!
...
I beg of you, don't ship away Jones, he has a wife and kids!

-United Nations Intelligence Service

If anyone wants to say anything to the fleet they'd better do it now, because I"m going to start blasting "Mars, Bringer of War" over every non-vital channel to raise morale real soon now.

FredMSloniker
Jan 2, 2008

Why, yes, I do like Kirby games.
So does this mean that Triton getting wiped off the map by missiles is probably off the table, since the launching ship (a) lingered, suggesting that it was needed to guide them, but (b) eventually fled, suggesting that they no longer have that guidance? Or did I misread the update in some way?

koolkevz666
Aug 22, 2015

FredMSloniker posted:

So does this mean that Triton getting wiped off the map by missiles is probably off the table, since the launching ship (a) lingered, suggesting that it was needed to guide them, but (b) eventually fled, suggesting that they no longer have that guidance? Or did I misread the update in some way?

I wouldn't say off the table but the missiles are likely going to be A) Less accurate and B) Easier to hit with point defense fire.

xthetenth
Dec 30, 2012

Mario wasn't sure if this Jeb guy was a good influence on Yoshi.

Sweet, the bastard flinched.

Also out of curiosity, where is the Endurance?

Fray
Oct 22, 2010

The base is safe. Missiles require an active sensor on the target or they lose lock. That's why the Musk stuck around for a while.

Sad King Billy
Jan 27, 2006

Thats three of ours innit...to one of yours. You know mate I really think we ought to even up the average!
I get the impression I was very lucky!

StarFyter
Oct 10, 2012

Sometimes it's better to be lucky than good. On that note best of luck to all of the participants of the impending melee.



I wonder if there's much left for salvage after that engine detonation?

StarFyter fucked around with this message at 13:46 on Jul 13, 2017

Saros
Dec 29, 2009

Its almost like we're a Bureaucracy, in space!

I set sail for the Planet of Lab Requisitions!!



Now... where were we?

Oh yes, this:


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=so10dKbhorI
Strap in for Close Quarters Battle.

4 April, 0148hrs

The fleets close within 300k km and fire starts to be exchanged. Both sides appear to be holding their missile ships for point blank range fire where PD will be much less effective.


Fire begins to hit the hostile DDG Marissa Mayer, hoping to cripple her before she can fire her missiles.


As the range closes a massive salvo of plasma reaches out and tears into her. Unfortunately at the same time Lasers from the Koshkins smash into the DD Tarnished Fist and disable her engine leaving her drifiting but intact. The Martian missile ships go into rapid fire at the Bill Gates class and after the second round of hits she breaks to run streaming atmosphere into space.

The Marissa Mayer also turns to run but another salvo leaves her a tumbling wreck having never fired her missiles. Perhaps the initial shots damaged her fire control?


The fleets burn hard past each other exchanging fire at point blank range and a masive autocannon salvo from the light cruisers tears into one of the hostile Koshkin's sending another IC ship to ruin.


The two fleets spin around and close to 20k km, absolute point blank range and exchange another brutal round of fire.
The large missile ships are out of ammo and are falling back with the frigates in tow. The frigates are still sending missiles seeking after the fleeing Bill Gates.


The two fleets twist around each other at point blank range, the Zukerberg gets the jump on three of the slowed fighters and tears them apart with focused autocannon fire.
The Bill gates takes a salvo up the rear and her main egine goes up in a terrible burst of light. The ship itself survives but is left disabled, the frigates quickly detonate their incoming missiles in a snap decision by Col. Veloxyll to give a chance to take the ship intact.


Not a good time for the Bill Gates.


One last pass and Col. Trogilus's CL Sagan burns past the second Mikhail Koshkin at point blank range and hammers her with every one of his autocannons leaving her a burning hulk.



The Martians try to open the range but the CA Falling outside normal Moral constraints, captained by Tythas has been the focus of IC fire for some time now and a series of hull penetrations leaves her disabled with 77 casualties.




The fleet turns back in a desperate attempt to shield her but the Zuckerberg slides right alongside her and opens up with her full completment of weapons.


Tythas, standing in the wreckage of his flag bridge gives the order to abandon ship before dashing for his own lifepod.


Only the Zuckerberg remains in the fight and the fleet diverts to give her a full broadside.


Zuckerberg takes fire from CAA Don't forget to breathe.



Don't forget to Breathe claims the kill! With that the guns fall silent and only the fleeing IC missile and support ships remain.

Saros fucked around with this message at 17:28 on Jul 13, 2017

HiHo ChiRho
Oct 23, 2010

drat. Caught up this thread at a good time, it seems

Dr. Snark
Oct 15, 2012

I'M SORRY, OK!? I admit I've made some mistakes, and Jones has clearly paid for them.
...
But ma'am! Jones' only crime was looking at the wrong files!
...
I beg of you, don't ship away Jones, he has a wife and kids!

-United Nations Intelligence Service

"Send a message to Command:

Triton Endures.

That is all."

Crazycryodude
Aug 15, 2015

Lets get our X tons of Duranium back!

....Is that still a valid thing to jingoistically blow out of proportion?


Holy poo poo..... we won?

We loving won. Jesus Christ I'll admit I thought that we were about to lose the theater up until about 8 hours of game time ago. A scrappy arrangement of cruisers just tore an entire IC carrier group to shreds. That's goddamned amazing, this better be taught in military theory classes for the next century.

Ferrovanadium
Mar 22, 2013

APEX PREDATOR

-MOST AMMUNITION EXPENDED ON CIVILIANS 2015-PRESENT
-WORST KDR VS CIVILIANS 2015-PRESENT

Saros posted:

Don't forget to Breathe claims the kill! With that the guns fall silent and only the fleeing IC missile and support ships remain.

Drinks are on me back at Triton!

Saros
Dec 29, 2009

Its almost like we're a Bureaucracy, in space!

I set sail for the Planet of Lab Requisitions!!


The Situation:


MIssile ships, 20m Km. Support ships 54m km.


4 Transports + a loaded Marissa Mayer, 340m km. Being tracked by fleet scout WindHund (the original.)


Half the Marine ships are inbound to waypoint 5 and should be able to intercept the fleeing transports before they get to Uranus.

Taking stock:

IC ships:

Total loss:
1x Steve Jobs Carrier
1x Bill Gates Heavy cruiser
2x Zuckerberg Antimissile cruiser
2x Marissa Mayer Missile destroyer
2x Mikhail Koshkin Beam frigate

Crippled:
1x Bill Gates class cruiser is badly damaged and disabled. It's crew have signalled their surrender. If a towship can be brought out it can be pulled back to Triton for repairs.

Martian ships:

Total losses:
CA Falling outside normal moral constraints (Ares class)
CLAA Sagan (Sagan Class)
4x Deimos fighter

Crippled:
BC Victory (Docked at Triton)
CLAA Draper (Docked at Triton)
DD Sciaparelli (Disabled, requires tow)


Yellerbill's Don't forget to breathe is damaged but still has all systems operational.


Sad King Billy's Tarnished Fist is severly damaged and has it engines disabled. 23 casualties and Sad King Billy is also MIA, uh oh! :rip:

Otherwise Triton fleet is largely intact, if rather low on ammuntion.



Saros fucked around with this message at 18:01 on Jul 13, 2017

Mukaikubo
Mar 14, 2006

"You treat her like a lady... and she'll always bring you home."

Crazycryodude posted:

Holy poo poo..... we won?

We loving won. Jesus Christ I'll admit I thought that we were about to lose the theater up until about 8 hours of game time ago. A scrappy arrangement of cruisers just tore an entire IC carrier group to shreds. That's goddamned amazing, this better be taught in military theory classes for the next century.

BRB engraving that quote on the base of the statue of the martyred admiral war hero :v:

edit: Sad King Billy also gets a statue as a martyred hero of Mars, looks like! Join me- we will fly eternal, shiny and bronze

Mukaikubo fucked around with this message at 17:29 on Jul 13, 2017

HiHo ChiRho
Oct 23, 2010

So...was the cruiser squadron from Uranus?

Is Titania only guarded by PDC after this?

Dr. Snark
Oct 15, 2012

I'M SORRY, OK!? I admit I've made some mistakes, and Jones has clearly paid for them.
...
But ma'am! Jones' only crime was looking at the wrong files!
...
I beg of you, don't ship away Jones, he has a wife and kids!

-United Nations Intelligence Service

HiHo ChiRho posted:

So...was the cruiser squadron from Uranus?

Is Titania only guarded by PDC after this?

Sadly even if that were true the fleet really doesn't have the ammo for a planetary assault. We can certainly shoot at the retreating ships but nuking a planet is a bit much for us right now.

Sad King Billy
Jan 27, 2006

Thats three of ours innit...to one of yours. You know mate I really think we ought to even up the average!
I feel like I mocked the gods and was punished accordingly.

Pash
Sep 10, 2009

The First of the Adorable Dead
I think the general plan should be get get ships out to two our damaged Destoryer and the disabled gates to Triton. It should be fine to start them moving now as there does not appear to be any enemy ships capable of combat closer than the Meyer escorting the transports.

Have the fleet chase down those fleeing missile ships and the fleet tenders, have them try to capture anything they can, particularly if we are able to disable the Musk, as loading that thing full of our PDC missiles would be pretty funny.

If our missile ships that our out of ammo don't have other weapons that can help out we should break them off and send them to reload, then move them back out to the edge of the Neptune area to guard our tow ships.

Finally I suggest sending our fighters after the enemy troop transports, as the Meyer's sensors won't be able to pick them up well as they are tuned to shooting larger things. This might let our fighters get into range. Does anyone know the math one how far away a ship with sensors tuned to see 3500T ships could spot our fighters? Otherwise we need something that can survive that missile alpha if we want to capture/destory those transports.

We should also probably leave something to baby sit that Gates so that its crew does not decide they have done enough field repairs to try something tricky.

Pash fucked around with this message at 19:24 on Jul 13, 2017

Fray
Oct 22, 2010

Here's a proposal based on our Discord discussions:

Cleanup
-Get salvagers out to the wrecks and life pods.
-Get tugs for the Tarnished Fist and the captured Gates.
-Get some Marines from Triton to take over the Gates.
-DDGs can return to base in shifts to re-arm. We do need a continuous guard on the cleanup ops. We're pretty much dry on missiles but the enemy doesn't necessarily know it.

Pursuit
-Fighters and Hubble frigates immediately pursue the enemy missile and support groups. Math says our fighters do have the fuel to catch them.
-Demand surrenders from everything we can and corral them back to where our fleet is doing cleanup.
-Try to get our Marine corvettes in the path that the enemy transports are taking to Uranus and go dark. The Meyer doesn't appear to be running its active sensor, so we're hoping to sneak up and beam it. For reference, math says that their passive thermals will detect a Zeus at full speed at 1.7M km.
-Capturing the collier, tanker, and Musk are high priority. They'll be handy if we ever take a shot at Uranus.

Longer Term
-After we've policed up the battlefield, return Triton fleet and our captures to base. Get repairs started on everything and re-arm our magazines.
-Build replacement fighters for our lost ones.
-Once the Hubbles are re-armed, do some sweeps for cloaked ships around the Neptune system.
-Send a fleet scout to surveil the enemy base at Titania. Goal is to assess the feasibility of an attack after we've patched the fleet up and 9th CRUDIV has arrived. Perhaps our friends in SB can help with intel on any PDCs?
-Continue raiding operations out of S-T.

Thoughts?

Crazycryodude
Aug 15, 2015

Lets get our X tons of Duranium back!

....Is that still a valid thing to jingoistically blow out of proportion?


Sounds good to me.

Of course, I'm sure Pluto or Earth or whoever is about to pull some bullshit that flips the whole game sideways, but for now that's perfect.

Pharnakes
Aug 14, 2009
I don't think we should pursue recklessly, but grab what we can safely. Now we've won our focus should be on repairing our fleet asap to meet the inevitable alien invasion, or if that doesn't happen to go and gently caress up Uranus.

sebmojo
Oct 23, 2010


Legit Cyberpunk









Meanwhile, on Pluto:

Veloxyll
May 3, 2011

Fuck you say?!

Requesting a transfer and re-painting of the Bill Gates to the Under New Ownership

HiHo ChiRho
Oct 23, 2010

Veloxyll posted:

Requesting a transfer and re-painting of the Bill Gates to the Under New Ownership

Nah, call it Blue Screen of Death

Morrow
Oct 31, 2010
bro, Hostile Takeover

Telsa Cola
Aug 19, 2011

No... this is all wrong... this whole operation has just gone completely sidewaysface

Morrow posted:

bro, Hostile Takeover

Hostile Take over is clearly the best choice.

Or something about the free market or shareholders.

Crazycryodude
Aug 15, 2015

Lets get our X tons of Duranium back!

....Is that still a valid thing to jingoistically blow out of proportion?


Morrow posted:

bro, Hostile Takeover

Tythas
Oct 3, 2013

Never felt at home in reality
Always hiding behind avatars


drat that was a hell of a fight, I am the first captain to actually survive the destruction of their ship, sad to see her die like that. do i get to keep my grade bonus or was that just assigned to the ship? and can we design a new class of ship to build (if we have the tech)?

Synthbuttrange
May 6, 2007

Telsa Cola posted:

Hostile Take over is clearly the best choice.

Or something about the free market or shareholders.

MSS Invisible Hand

sebmojo
Oct 23, 2010


Legit Cyberpunk









Synthbuttrange posted:

MSS Invisible Hand

The MSS Three-fingered Salute

pthighs
Jun 21, 2013

Pillbug
MSS Malaria strikes back

Incy
May 30, 2006
for other Out
MSS Redistribution

Aethernet
Jan 28, 2009

This is the Captain...

Our glorious political masters have, in their wisdom, decided to form an alliance with a rag-tag bunch of freedom fighters right when the Federation has us at a tactical disadvantage. Unsurprisingly, this has resulted in the Feds firing on our vessels...

Damn you Huxley!

Grimey Drawer
In tribute to the downed Zuckerburg, MSS Status Update.

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Sad King Billy
Jan 27, 2006

Thats three of ours innit...to one of yours. You know mate I really think we ought to even up the average!
MSS Sad King Billy

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