The Battle for Pelagis

[Myroria]

"This is Relay 32 to SSCS Babylon. This is Relay 32 to SSCS Babylon. Do you read?"

"We read. Inquiry, 32?"

"Ground Control spotted a Centauri device orbiting the Wormhole Entrance. Orders to engage. How many MSCSs do you have with you?"

"Four, 32. Full with Raptors. Preparing to engage on your command."

"Cleared."

The PPS doors opened, and the enormous ship used it's above deck rockets to fall out of the bottom of the even bigger ship. It then put its three main engines on full blast and turned toward the Alpha Centauri Wormhole, all the while releasing MSCSs from it's bay. Within a day it saw the full view of the enemy ship, one kilometer bigger than itself. And soon the huge station released its own fighters, which engaged the Raptors.

The cannon turned to face the SSCS as it approached closer and closer. It took about three hours to load, but finally the order was given. The projectile - meant to destroy planets - rocketed toward the SSCS, and exploded on impact. The gigaton blast took down all the MSCSs with it, and, needless to say, destroyed the SSCS. Most Raptors were destroyed by the debris, but those that survived were taken with the Centauris back to their own planet, where who knows what happened to the pilots. Tortured, killed, sold into slavery, no one on Pelagis knew. The one thing they did know was that the Centauri weren't going to be taken down easily. The Centauri realized that war was now under way, and they could orbit no longer. Now it was time to take the offensive, and fly toward Pelagis.

[Myroria]

The Raptor made a strange, eerie screeching noise as it flew by - at least, that's what it probably sounded like; it maked that noise in an atmosphere, so it probably does in space too. The largest fleet ever assembled, from all planets in the Pela system besides Osiris (the closest to the star, and therefore, the hottest) was directed toward the equally massive Centauri fleet. Even the PPS was put on high alert, should this fleet fail to neutralise the threat.

As with any war, the Pelagians stated their objective as to "neutralize all enemy ships, and conquer the enemy planet". Only a handful of wars didn't have this objective, and even then most in that handful still had one of them. The Centauri and Pelagian ships were almost exact opposites: the Pelagians preferred having either extreme; large or small. There were few "medium sized" ships in the fleet. The Pelagians also had very Euclidean ships - they had straight edges, and even the central pod of the Raptor wasn't a perfect circle. Most ships had dark colors also. Only the capital ships had a bright color (red), and even then it was just two stripes down the center.

The Centauris, on the other hand, had flowing, beautiful ships. They were fishlike, much as their people, and were a bright blue color with stripes of purple and navy all across it. Even their guns didn't protrude like the Pelagians'. They fit into the wings shape. Yes, wings are another difference. The Pelagian's ships weren't aerodynamic, because they needn't be. The Centauris, who patrolled the skies of a planet rather than the ground like their enemy, used aerodynamic shapes to save money. The Centauri ships were much cleaner - most relied on solar or battery power unlike the nuclear and ion engines of their contemporary. In fact, the Pelagian ships even had portholes to shove out nuclear waste on their large ships. In a nutshell, the Centauris could be compared to spacefaring Indians, and the Pelagians to spacefaring eighteenth century Europeans.