Bestine under attack! image - Mandalorians

*A Silentium fleet exits hyperspace well away from the planet and moves into position. Forces are left to cover the rear and the flanks. Drones are launched in to thousands and sent against the planet defenses*

My fleet positiones near the shipyards in a VV formation headed towards the enemy treath. in a loosened formation
corvettes in front, backed up by frigates, which are guarded by capitals. in each gap at the back of the VVVV (etc.) formation are artillery units being positioned, flanked by corvettes and beviin carriers. the artillery begins firing at the enemy to buy the tartarus carrier time to evacuate civilians from the shipyards. while obilisk defense towerds are activated and shielding the most vital shipyard parts.

*The drones bombard the defenses while Sphere ships engage the capital ships. SD sixe support craft engages smaller covettes and frigates with great efficienty, putting them under heavy stress to minimalize anti-fighter(Drone) capability.*

OOC: i'm kinda confused aren't drones smaller ships like fighter-size? so how can they bombard my defenses?

IC: my vanguard corvettes hold out because of their though armor and disperse some flocks of drones, while my alorade can destroy many drones stil, but many of them have to go back into the formation where WWC repair ships try to repair their hulls. some rancor corvettes recieve to much damage but the tihaar are in a perfect position and are able to deal heavy damage. the captitals remain largely untouched while my artillery (mainly arcatus, terror and krayt ships) now fires to weaken your support craft.

OOC: how far are your main ships exactly?
edit: and gt eat to:p

OOC: I always though they were like the Ancient drones from Stargate. Just bigger more powerful, although not able to piece shields.

And my main ships are within firing range of your shipyards. (I guess)

Adenn@ kk

IC: The Silentium rear forces from up with the main fleet and support the attacks. Most fo the fleet is still focusing on the Amndalorian defenses and anti-fighter corvettes and frigates.

The sphere ships unleashed their full firepower on the mandalorian capital ships*

OOC: Well, if you both have to eat then I am going to watch Firefly. Be back in 20 mins. or so.

OOC: what are sphere ships exactly?

IC: my artillery now heavily focuses on the sphere ships, but now the buurenaar destroyers and krayt destroyers aid them in draining your shields and disabeling drones along the way. mu corvettes and frigates retreat a bit back between my capitals in order to form a tight frontline with adenn'. the gladius move forward a bit and start reigning mass driver shots on the sphere ships before the gladius' turbolasers can target them. tsar destroyers utilise their octuple, triple turbolasers and dual ion cannons to push back any capital that fires at the shipyards. for now the shipyards keep quiet. my carriers begin unloading their fighters/bombers. retaliate and dominus interdictors fire up their gravity wells. the tartarus has evacuated the non-military and ground personnel and moves far out the sillie firing range.
A Hades battlecruiser hyperpsaces in, wich will be my temporarily flagship, untill i have posted the 'real' one. the hades forms up with my fleet in the front line.

OOC: gtg to sleep now, but thnx to the order 'system' HH can give the last comment,

OOC: They are 50 kilometer wide ball shaped space ships.

*The Sphere ships keeps advancing despite the heavy fire and the shield are holding steady although the pressure takes its toll. They keep firing at the Mandalorian front line tearing apart the defenses. Support ships am now in rage of the artillery andopen fire on them. A outflanking causes disruption on the Silentium ranks and drones are launched in retaliation towards the staging and to stabilise the flank with new ships.

Frigate and corvette size ships now make suicide runs against the shipyard shields bringing their strength down drasticly.*

My artillery has been protected by adenn, so it keeps firing on the sphere ships dealing massive damage. the most damaged corvettes and frigates retreat to be repaired and to renew their shields. some largely undamaged gladius destroyers take up their place. terror missile ships come into full action and for that they need to come closer to the frontline, they open their wings and unleash an incredible volley of warheads at the sphere ships. the heavy silentium fire takes their toll, but now the new DT-40 pilum defenses activate and start firing full strenght at the suicide runs. a small group of sagitta destroyers and rancor frigates reincorced by many vipers MkIII and vallah bombers outflanks the silentium to the right side.

OOC: for all interested, i haven't posted the pilum's info so i might do it here:
Most DT-20 and 30 Pilum's were commissioned and either sold or re-purposed to make way for the new DT-40 Pilum which is a major improvement over the older models.

The new Pilum has not only been streamlined for better and easier production which make it cheaper then ever thought possible, its armament has also been doubled.

Shields and hull are stronger then before due to its new design and it can now survive for long lengths of time in combat whereas before it relied on its weapons to keep the enemy at bay and on supporting ships, the old models were very weak in terms of shields and hull and when combined with the expenses to maintain losing even one was detrimental to Bestines defence budget.

It is armed with ten Heavy Mass Driver weapons, ten Double-barrelled anti-ship laser cannons and twenty missile tubes with a small amount of different warheads but chiefly mine deploying warheads.

(thanks for ori for making this so much better, than my half assed version)

OOC: How can artillery still fire with friendly ships in front of them? Lol. Lets just pretend like they stopped firing instead of destroying your own ships xD

IC: *Ships are sent to counter the flanking on the right side and hundreds of drones are sent towards the missiles to target them or move into their trajectory, therby protecting the Sphere ships. Some however loose shield due to the heavy bombardment and fails.

The entire Silentium fleet continue to approach the defenses and the mandalorian fleets slowly, but also start to bucnh together in a tigh formation to pretend gaps for adduitionla flanking manuevers*

My group at the right flank deals as much damage as possible before returning to the main fleet under cover fire from the pilum towers, after that some repaired corvettes and frigates go into the frontline again and pick of every remaining droids. the terror missile ships return to the center to 'reload' while buurenaar and krayts come closer the deal a last punch at the sphere ships' shield. my strikecraft go on a quick strafing run after adenn's bombard and before new drones can be sent.

OOC: not all ships are on the same horizontal line HH, and plus missiles don't fire in a straight trajectory.

OOC. Well, its be fun guys, but its time to complete my objective.

And btw. Your artillery ships can still not be protected from enemy fire and fire back. xD And they don't have to fly straigh to be hit by my drones.

Oh and Adenn...The Silentium don't make use of Brigdes as we know them. I can't imagine droids caring for the view. :P

IC: *After a slow advance, the fleet is now close enough and increases speed drasticly. All the minor vessels target the enemym capaital ships with ramming speed, accompanied by every last drone there is left to guard them aginst bombers and other strikecraft.

The Sphere ships plot a course for the shipyards while the larger support craft target the defense platforms*

OOC: I will let you have last word. But those shipyards are going down..

OOC: to make something clear most of my fleet is positioned in front of my shipards and i think orbital shipyards are quite stretched out AROUND orbit. i don't think you can destroy anything in 1 comment (wich is against the rules) with the small fleet you have left.

IC whilst every ship i have fires upon you, the hades battlecruiser, i got out of it with most of my personel, positions itself infront of the main shipyard as do 2 of my beviin carriers which are both already emptied of strikecraft. idk think you can take out the defense platforms mk I and III, so they keep firing as well, although taking heavy fire.

OOC: True, but a (Only need 1) 50 kilmometer wide ball of steel going at high speed into a shipyard will cause enough damage to casue secondary explosions + massive structural damage. And as for your fleet being in front of the shipyards. I can only refer to your own comment above. "not all ships are on the same horizontal line" ;)

Technically I haven't destroyed anything in 1 comment. So I haven't breached any rules. That is why I left it to you. Also I could have won this battle if I wanted to, since Ori'verda was well aware of what was going on and decided not to participate because he feels uncomfortable attacking Mandalorians. It would not have been entirely unfair to pull in another fleet. You should take this as a victory for Bestine and its people indstead of a defeat for your military capabilities.

OOC: This is from a cannon source: "At that, the Battle of ThonBoka renewed, but for only a moment; out of nowhere, a multitude of fifty-kilometer self-aware droids appeared, issuing a demand on all channels: "Cease fire immediately or be destroyed!". They were The One, The Other and The Rest, who had come for Vuffi Raa. The Imperial fleet, faced with thousands of gigantic ships, retreated from their genocidal mission."

Also, I didn't look for loopholes in the rules. I only thought of them after you brought up the rules, so that logic can not really apply.

so be it then, i admit the loss of my shipyards.
but GTFO my lawn:D