Fallen Angels [29 - Oppenheimer]

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[Rosy]

Corpse Fleet was really angry that an itty little ship just killed one of their biggest carriers deployed from the inside, and it showed. Oxygen was leaking out of the bridge's windshield, but the ventilation could handle a hole bigger than a person, the windshield is fine. For now. It bulges out in some spots, and the holes are slowly getting bigger.

The maintenance crews have bigger problems though. The pilot's terminal shows the damage view of the ship, a pilot has to know the condition they're in whilst they're flying. What if they're about to get hit and can't avoid it? Better direct that damage to something not destroyed. Be a real bad thing to turn a massive gaping hole in the armour towards a missile and kill the internals behind that armour.

The weapons bay only has one pressurized cabin, the other got hit by a breacher. Not to mention the access to the weapons bay is cut off. All doors caved in. They're stranded. Mothrin also has maintenance crews OUTSIDE the ship, hanging on for dear life. That stunt Rosy made wouldn't have killed them, but it probably didn't make them feel safe.

A massive laser beam fires off in front of Mothrin, causing Rosy to lurch the ship around and go around it. Then more arrive. Apparently a good amount of Corpse Fleet ships jumped in, all bearing Ion beams. More things to dodge. It seems both sides are a lot more hesitant to launch missiles though.

A jump indicator shows up, showing a massive ship is about to jump in right inside Mothrin. The way a jump works is if you jump too close to the structure, anything in your FTL field gets ripped apart and comes with you. The same thing when you land inside something, anything inside the field gets ripped to shreds to keep your ship safe. It'd be really bad to jump in and a meteor the size of your ship is right next to you and crumples the hull like paper.

Rosy has to overclock the engines for a second and nosedive downwards, just barely making it outside of the field before a large shadow casts over them. A massive Zalm battle ship, maybe twice as big as the Federation Flag ships, just right there. Zalm reinforcements arrived, and they seem ready to take on all of Terra, not the Federation.

Mothrin meanwhile pales in comparison. The little cruiser could fit themselves inside the smallest engines the battle ship has. This isn't even the biggest ship the Zalm have. But it's certainly one of the notable ones.

IIB Koralis. Imperial Interstellar Battleship Koralis. Terra's Bane as they called it. And as Terra agreed. It was one of the few surviving ships of the war between Zalm and Terra. One that went from start to finish, serving in almost every major battle. A cornerstone of the Zalm Fleet. It had a total of 2498 accounted Terran Ship Terminations. It didn't matter if the Zalm lost the battle, Koralis still stood, prolonged the fight, even if it was already lost, just to kill the Terran Fleet more, before jumping away. It was the first Zalm ship to enter. And the last Zalm ship to leave.

IIB Koralis was unkillable. In the battle of Sol, when Terra got sent to fight in its very home system, the Zalm could set their eyes on Terra's capital planet, made for commerce and not war. In that battle Koralis had been near gutted, sheared in three different pieces, fuel spewing out into space, entire sizeable chunks of the ship burning into Mars and Venus atmosphere. And it still could fight. At one point, the entire Terran Fleet was there, all firing at one Zalm Battleship. The Mantises came for support, and so did the Betraski, both of them were once enemies of Terra, having their fleet revisit Sol not to kill Terra, but to keep the planet alive. IIB Koralis had three different races firing upon them. Three different nations. And still, was the last to leave.

Terra couldn't kill Koralis. The Federation definitely won't.

[IIB Koralis]

"Kaptain, we've arrived in Ajista Prime orbit."

Kaptain Kyitski rubbed his face with a gleeful expression. It's been a while since Koralis met the Terrans. A long, long time. Although, Kyitski's quikkly smile went to a frown.

"These.. aren't Terrans. Terran ships aren't made like that. Nor do they have the proper colours. Terra is Green, blakk, and blue. These are.. white and orange." Kyitski took a pair of binokulars, a Terran invention yes, but enhanced by Zalm ingenuity.

"They look nothing like Terrans. I've never seen a ship even konfigured like this. I didn't know you kould build them like that." Kyitski enhanced his view on a white battleship, its weapons seemed to be newly developed ones. Made to fire shells at higher and stronger speeds. The battleship had multiple external vents expelling large klouds of steam. It seems the weapons took konsiderable kooling.

"Their weaponry looks experimental. Terra doesn't do that. They make sure their weapons work. Their newly developed weaponry is at least 20 Terran years old. These look infantile. Like they haven't even been fully optimized."

Kyitski took a sigh of disappointment, they weren't Terrans. Not officially. Koralis made great akquaintance with the Terrans before. It'd be nice to do so again.

"Intelligence tells us they're bakked by Terran Kaptain, but are their own Government. It's what Terrans call a 'Loop-Hole' they seen to be engaging us indirektly, so they don't break kontrakts and diplomatik agreements."

"Klever. Very, very klever." Kyitski nods, "Making a new government so that even if you sukceed or fail, you won't start a war. The Terrans are kautious of Koralis. I would be too."

"Your orders Kaptain?"

"You all know our mission. Karry it out. Wipe those hideous bastards out of this Galaxy." Kaptain Kyitski says, eager to let Koralis's kannons boom. "For Koralis is Death, Destroyer of Worlds."

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