Deep Space Patrol

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You could barely see the other ships in the strike group. Between the Thanatos and the Gray there was a decent 300 kilometres. The group wasn't expecting hostiles however recent freighter runs threw the area had come under raid by pirates.

The Thanatos was a massive vessel, the third Ares Class assault cruiser to be commissioned, she was the pride of the Third Fleet. Like her sisterships the Thanatos is capable of taking on other Capitol Ships in one on one combat, as well as planetary bombardment. Her personal fleet was comprised of two Hercules Class Destroyers; the Genghis Khan and the Hoplite; two Freedom Class Frigates; the Gray and the Fredericton; and a Virgo Class Auxillary; the Crimson Rose. Do to the recent Piracy in the area the Fredericton was staying close to the Crimson Rose, for close in protection.

~Thanato

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"Commander, sir!" stated an nervous sensor operator.

"What is it Spacer?" asked Commander Hitch, who was third in command of the Thanatos and the senior officer on the bridge currently.

"I am getting a faint Ghost reading, sir. It could be ships." stated the Spacer.

"More then one?" asked Hitch

"I am showing several seperate ghosts sir. It is either nothing or the ships are using stealth technology."

"Hmm, Set Condition two threw out the ship, signal to the other ships to do the same also tell them to close the formation." Commander hitch picked up the handset. "Captian Micheal please,"..."Sir, we have seven possible hostiles. Request permission to send out the Hoptile to investigate."..."Understood," He set the handset down. "Send a messege to the Hoptile, tell them to investigate the ghosts."

A spacer sitting at the communications pannel looked over, "Understood sir," he looked back at the pannel pressed a few buttens, "UTS Hoptile this is the UTS Thanatos, orders from the Captian. Investigate sensor Ghosts, over". . ."Roger, out." He looked back at Commander hitch, "Orders sent,sir,"

"Comfirmed Hoptile breaking formation heading to ghosts, sir."

OOC: Anyone want to play the unknown maybe as your own race or Pirates. as this is on the fringe of explored space.

~Thanato

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Ooc: ill take it up

Ic: 5 Arrow shaped crafts arrived each metallic no marks, lights and sensors going of constantly. Behind it a large cylindrical craft came out behind it (these are smaller than the Rectangular ones in the other rp). In the center of the largest ship, admits the masses of moving metallic shapes and forms moving about. The many corridors all full of continual motion.

In the center of the craft was the command deck. Many forms melded with the different counsels and command decks, in the center a large chair sat, in it sat a large metallic man, wearing a dark green uniform. In his metallic hands was a dark fiber that was burning at one end (a cigar). The mans metallic face formed a mouth, smiling brightly, a laugh coming out of it “Well it seems our exploration fleet has discovered someone.  Have the five forward craft form about us, send open signals on all fronts, their seem to be advanced ships here. Discover the language and then send an open message, we are not here for engagement. As well prepare launch of fighters and full assault, if they make any aggressive moves prepare to fire, contact the five captains, tell them to link to connection port 342156 ill give them the rest over the mental screen”

He lifted up the burning plant fiber in his hand up to his mouth and inhaled it. He changed his eternal mechanics so he could gain the sensations of the fibers. “let it begin.”

The five arrow shaped crafts fall back and form around the cylindrical one. All ships then begin to send low musical signals on thousands of electrical wave lengths to try and get one for the unknown alien crafts. They also scanned hundreds of thousands of wave lengths to try and get communications from the ships.

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"Captain," stated a sensor operator on the Hoptile, "Sensors are getting a clearer picture of the craft now, looks like are falling into a tight formation around what appears to be a larger vessel."

"Sir," interrupted the communications officer, "I am getting a signal from craft."

"Understandable?" asked Captain Neskov.

"Not right now sir, but there is deffenitly different pitches and wave lengths. Could be a language."

"Run it threw the AI," ordered Neskov.

"Already am, sir"

"Well, lets just send a preempt message back, open all frequencies and channels."

He pressed a few buttons, "Open sir,"

"This is Captain Neskov of the United Dominion Ship Hoptile. We are on a peaceful patrol of this Sector. Over," the Captain signalled to cut the transmission, which was done, "Lets hope that worked." Neskov walked over to the conn, "Do we have a visual yet?"

"Negative, still 1,042 km out. Eta to target 24 minutes present speed." stated the Conn officer.

"Increase to Hype 6." ordered the Captain.

"Yes sir." The Conn officer placed his hands on a lever and slowly raised it to a mark were it said 'Hype 6'. "New ETA to target, 12 minutes, Visual in 5."

"Sound Action stations." ordered the Captain, Soon after a voice was heard threw out the ship stating 'Action Stations,' then followed 3 horn blows. "Thank you Melanie,"

"Your Welcome Captain," Melanie was the ships AI.

~Thanato

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The systems scanned and quickly broke down the language and rebuilt it to be used. This system was good for communicating with new races. Of course the system had no way of understanding any form of slang, and the Anilocs never understood the use of it.
The captain took a smoke of his cigar and smiled “Match a channel they sent, as well as keep open scanning on all electron frequencies, see if we can pick up some of their transmissions”
Leaning his head back laughing about the protocol he had to follow. The actual chance of an electron transmission message being intercepted was so slim. Without very obtrusive full laser scans around ships or being in between them you had to hope one of the electrons being sent got hit by the few atoms in space to give you the line they are using for the transmissions. (in space radio waves don’t work, as there is no air, that also means really big engines and explosions have no sound.)
“Send the following message, hmmm, use a triple layer voice, two woman one male, overlapped, use dialects similar to the one we received. ‘We are a exploration forward military division of the Aniloc fold, we have no interest in open military conflicts with any advanced space fairing race”
He enjoyed using the vocal manipulators, it let him delay the revelation of the fact he was the only person on this bloody ship with a personality. He opened up his mental transmission link with the other captains “fellow free aniloc minds of captains, we will be maintaining no video contact with any new races till the true fold tells us otherwise. Use full vocal manipulation tech and send false life support heat releases for your ships. Lets try and look like we are normal shall we boys and girls”
In his mind five voices confirmed his order at the same time.

Ooc: the aniloc do not have telepathy on any level at all. They are cybernetic and are linked like computers, they are using computer phone stuff. But there is no way they can send a message to someone who is not part of the fold using the tech.
And the scans for your communication unless you want to it wont work, cause it is basically randomly guessing where microscopic electrons traveling in space are, so unless they make the billion in one shoot and hit your messages they wont hear and if you change where they are being sent between messages…. Well the odds of it happening are even less. ;P

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"Captain, sir," yelled a Spacer manning another sensor station.

"What is it Opum," asked the Captain, still standing at the front of the bridge near the Con.

"I have a first send back of the Bio-sensors. Those ships are not being manned by a crew sir, I am detecting minute traces of Bio matter on those vessels."

"So AI, drones?"

"My guess is AI, sir." stated Opum.

"incoming Messege sir,"

"Play it on speakers,"...'We are a exploration forward military division of the Aniloc fold, we have no interest in open military conflicts with any advanced space fairing race'..."Melanie, quick briefing on the Aniloc fold."

"Searching my Database,". . ."Minimal information found. The Aniloc Fold is a cybernetic race of beings that was encountered 120 years ago by the UTS Pride of Stars. The vessel was drifting toward a Gas Giant in system PXJ-445 after receiving damage to the Primary power units. The Pride of Stars witnessed the vessel burn up in the Gas Giants atmospher after a brief voice communication. End of File."

"Dosen't help us much, but thank you Melanie."

"Your Welcome sir,"

"Open a channel,"

"Channel open,"

"Hello, This is Captain Neskov. To whom am I speaking, Artificial Intelligence? Or something else. We know there is no Biological crew on board any of your vessels. So who are you?"

~Thanato

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The captain smirked “open the lines, but keep the voice manipulation open”

“Well mr. aliens it seems that we did not get our bio life duplicators up fast enough. And to answer your question what you are speaking to is so much more then artificial intelligence, that’s such a bland description. No, we are far beyond that, we are true intelligence in an artificial body.”

The message ended, he took a long smoke, in his mind a very melodic voice ringed in “Fleet commander Dresmond are you sure you should take such an informal stance with them. Bio’s do not trust us, they are blinded by petty views.”

His face went blank a perfect silver plate “ah captain Liana, always the cautious type. I’m not like Fleet Commander Givolin, where she prefers to force any strange force to submit, I feel that a constant display of force leads to more conflict then it avoids. Trust me in this”

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"Well then, sorry if I was any offence. However your present course will take you into Dominion territory and I advise you to change course. I am somewhat of a history buff, but you state your true intelligence in an artificial body? Does that mean you were once biological? Over,"

The communications officer looked over to the Captain, "sir, we are receiving a voice message from the Thanatos, requesting a status update."

"Tell them that we have made first contact with an Alien species, however we do not know there intentions so inform them to keep there distance."

"Aye sir,"


The Hoptile was now with in 6 kilometres of the lead alien vessel on monitors threw out the bridge showed all the different vessels. "I can barly see it, even with the Star light. Must be some sort of visual stealth, however it is blocking out the stars. Must just be a really dark colour."

~Thanato

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"What ever we once were.. is nothing of importance. You may be one who finds pleasure from the study of the past, but for good or ill, we view focusing on what has happened in the past as a pointless waist, an inefficient study. We only focus on growth and acquisition. We will not move into your space, we are simply here to find planets that are of high enough quality for us to take use of. Do not fear us, we have no intention of invading your territory"

The ships began to sideways the ships them selves not changing their direction.

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"Captain," stated a sensor operator, " I am reading three Vortex's opening up."

The Capetian looked over with a stern look on his face, "Ours?"

"I am reading over a dozen ships on LIDAR, no transponders signaling," stated the sensor operator peering over the screen.

"Cut the channel to the aliens, bring us into a defence posture and raise the Thanatos," ordered the Capetian.

"Channel open,"

"Hoptile, this is Admiral Keller, are you reading the Raiders?"

"Yes Admiral, we have come about to face them,"

"We copy that. We are going for an attack posture on this, don't want them to destroy the Aliens," The Admiral took a moment from the transmission, and it could be heard, "Sound Action Stations, set condition one threw out the ship." The Admiral was brought back to the transmission, "Captain Neskov, you're ship is the closes we will be behind you shortly eta 3 minutes behind we are going to do a full burn."

"Yes sir, we will try and sort things out before you get there,"

"Captain, if these are Pirates, your orders are to destroy. Understood?"

"Yes sir," Neskov walked towards a chair in the middle of the bridge. "Cut the line." the captain redirected his attention to the ships AI, "Melanie I want a battle readiness report,"

"Ship reports ready for battle, captain."

"Thank you,"

"You're welcome,"

The Hoptile flew towards the unknown LIDAR signatures. Weapons at the ready.

~Thanato

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"huh it seems they have cut relay between each other."

in his mind he heard a rather raspy males voice "Fleet commander we have unknown people dropping into real space"

the fleet commanders face twisted in dropping, he leaned his head back, all about the ship they began to prepare for what ever was about to happen. Shields were raised and fighters were launched.

"well fellow captains lets see what is about to happen"

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"Sir, two of the signatures match those of two known Pirate Cruisers," stated a sensor Operator.

"Ok, when we get with in range I want you to blow out there V generators," Neskov paused for a moment, "ETA?"

"Just over 5 minutes, sir." stated the Conn.

"Open a channel with all the ships," ordered Neskov.

"Channel Open, sir."

"This is the Dominion Destroyer UTS Hoptile. You are in violation of Dominion Anti Piracy laws cut your engines now or you will be disabled, Over." He looked over at the communications operator. It took a minute, "No response?" asked Neskov.

"No Sir, doesn't look like they are to interested in talking today,"

"Sir, the Alien ships are getting into an attack posture," stated a sensor operator.

"Probably just responding to what is happening. Guess I should of sent them a messege, oh well eh?"

"Sir we are in range," stated a weapons officer on the bridge.

"FIRE!"

The weapons officer had a head set on, "All batteries fire at targets. Repeat, all Batteries Fire at Targets."

The Three primary forward Batteries opened fire, throwing charged tightly packed particles across the void of space toward the Pirate cruisers.

~Thanato

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"Hmmm seems we get to see how they fight. All divisions take defensive formations, have all weapons primed, who ever is the first to fire on us. Destroy that group"

The fleet launched more fighters but did not move against either party, instead they began to spread into a defensive formation each of the ships opened up ports and armed weapon systems to be able to respond in a millisecond.

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The Hoptile was taking a beating. It managed to disable the two large Pirate Cruisers vortex Generators but now the entire Pirate fleet was firing on her. One of the Pirate cruisers was taking up a position behind the Hoptile to attack the engines then out of the darkness of space a beam sliced threw it causing the ship to drift into three peices.

"Sorry we are late Captain." said a voice over the speakers on the bridge of Hoptile.

The Thanatos flew down unleashing a rain of death. With the one cruiser in pieces it fired on the smaller Pirate ships destroying most of them in a signle volley from its main weapons cannons. The second cruiser started to take off at sublight. Two shots from the main cannons hit the engines and blew them to peices causing the ship to spiral end over end. Two more shots from the Thanatos main weapons blew a hole in the belly of the cruiser causing it to stabalize somewhat. The final shot hit the Cruisers magazine causing a chain reaction which caused the ship to explode. The two small Pirate frigates begain to make a run for it. The Thanatos' escorts chased them down and blew them to peices.

"Victory is ours. Gentelmen." said the Voice of the Captain of the Thanatos. "Now, Hows the Hoptile?"

"The Hoptile has major structural damage across the bow and stern how ever the command tower is intact along with the bridge. Also the engines seem fine and it dosnt look like the vortex generators were hit." stated a sensor operator.

"Good, hail them." A moment passed, "Captain Neskov, how is your ship holding together?"

"Good Micheal, seems the welds held together. However I do have 6 missing crew and another 11 KIA along with another 49 wounded. We will limp home for repairs."

"Ya, you are not going alone. The Fredericton is going to escort you back to Primus Fleet Yards."

"Aye Captain, aye."

The Fredericton came along side the Hoptile. The two ships then gerenarted a vortex and entered.

"Well, lets go see how these aliens will now respond." said Captian Micheal commanding officer of the Thanatos.

OOC: The Thanatos used the 'Scatter-Gun' to destroy the first cruiers the beam turned everything with in its reach into base atoms which then caused the Cruiser to drift appart in three seperate pieces. It then used normal Partical Ram accelerator turrets to destroy the rest. This whole battle  lasted 12 minutes. 4 before the arrival of the Thanatos and company and 8 after.

~Thanato

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"interesting weapon systems, they seem to put high value in large guns to destroy fast. Good to know, keep looking as both sides don't seem interested in us, so we will not get involved. Their is nothing to be gained by involvement."

The Aniloc fold ships kept their formation, the fighters moving about in a spastic defensive pattern about the main ships. They simply watched and analyzed the battle little care for the outcome