Welcome to Gaia! ::

Suddenly, the Rose turned to face backwards as it slid by, aiming it's weapons towards the Longswords. The reactors powering the guns fired, and two rounds of heavy metal blasted forwards, trailing a faint blue double helix tracer. They detinated shortly before the path of the longswords, showing them with EMP and shrapnel.


A large cluster of this ships veared off upon seeing these strange rounds blasting towards them, leaving behind a smaller group was only paying attention to the Longswords around them, and now flew directly into a wave of shrapnel, which really was no threat to them, but the EMP waves tha came with the blast severly damaged their electronics, causing several of these ships to become inactive and to drift through space now. The majority of the surviving Longswords decided to spread out and attack it from as many different directions as possible. All of those that attacked launched salvos of ASGM-10 missles at the vessel, before darting away to dodge any AA fire.


The Captain sighed as the COM channel was suddenly filled with pilots requesting assistance, with most of them simply confused about why their fighters had simply stopped working. He wasn't truly concerned though, as the rest choose random attack vectors, so the same trick wouldn't work twice. He also noted that the Ingraham was now following the ship from a different direction, deciding that following it from directly behind it was now a bad idea.

The Captain decided to be as paranoid as possible with this ship, having thought it was a larger ship the first time they detected it, he immediately thought of the largest ship they had managed to see at Reach. He remembered the reports stating that the weapons it used were faster than they could even track, and thought this was the same thing. Luckily, the plasma weapon this ship used was much slower, which allowed him to blast the emergency aft thrusters, causing the large ship to jerk away in time for the plasma to lance out and further into space. He grimaced slightly at the monitor now as he barked new orders. "Tell the remaining squadrons of C709's to do bombing runs on that things shields. I don't care if they have to do suicide attacks with nucler-tipped missiles. I want that ship to be scrapped before it's weapons can recharge." As he was saying this, the Ingraham's MAC gun fired a salvo of hot metal shells at the enemy ship from behind, before breaking off and heading back for the Titan.

The Captain slammed his fist down in response to seeing their target directly below the Titan, and managed to activate the portside emergency thrusters in time to let the small MAC rounds graze the hull and rocket off into space, while the plasma dug into the hull and melted away several layers of armor, exposing a portion of this ships skeletal structure. He immediately clicked a few controls in order to turn off the alarms that were now blaring, thinking of it as a simple distraction as he examined the damage reports for a moment. "Arm the Shiva nuclear-tipped missiles. I want one in the launch tube and another in our remote-piloted Longsword. Pull back our own Longswords in order to give us some cover." He typed in several other commands, before sending another encrypted message to his two Frigates, ordering them to fire all of their archer missiles when the timer he had sent them reached zero. He plotted for several of their Archer missiles to launch along with theirs, as well as their nucler missile to launch at the same time, hoping that it will either hit or be gunned down by the ship's close-range defenses, which would also explain why he had pulled back his Longsword fighters.

Almost every Longsword in operation was now swarming towards the enemy ship, hoping to push it away from the CBG as the UNSC ships moved away from it at top speed. They forced their reactors into the red, before firing their emergency thrusters, turned on their sides, and, in unison, fired large clusters of Archer Missiles at the enemy ship, before turning and heading even farther off away from it. The Longswords, in turn, veared away from doing their bombing runs in order to attempt to escape the blast as a wall of explosives and one nucler device jetted towards the ship.

He had already sent an order to his Frigates to fire their MAC cannons on the ship when they recharged when he heard a voice eminating through every frequency his ship had. He gazed at his monitory blankly for a moment as he noted the origin, before shrugging it off and ordering a tech to arm the rest of their Archer Missiles and target the ship with their recharged MAC gun as well. He managed to yawn quietly to himself, before he opened up one of the channels their enemy was using and speaking softly and calmly in response to the enemy's ranting.

"This is Captain Vincent Millay of the UNSC Carrier Titan. I fired upon your ship because you are not my ally. You are, in turn my enemy..." As he spoke he made a hand gesture to one of his Lieutenants to send a fire order towards the other two Frigates, which was immediately recognized as the two ships spat large metalic rounds at their target, while the Titan held it's fire for later.

He watched as the ship rose upward in a line relative to his ship, and grinned faintly as it simplified the calculations required to use the MAC guns, and he barely managed to utter the word "Fire", before the entire ship recoiled, sending two large rounds toward the ship as it moved upwards. He typed in a few more commands as the rounds sped towards his enemy, not really caring if his plan succeeded or failed as he called back their remaining Longsword fighters to their respected launch bays, before he got up, grabbed a portable COM transmitter, and headed out of the bridge with it attached firmly to his left ear, knowing there were two Pelicans with Marines waiting for him.

He made his way to an elevator that led down to the portside shuttle bay. Which opened up into something that could only be described as a massive cavern of steel. He exited the elevator, noting the silence over their corrupted COM system as he climbed into a Pelican with it's engines activated and ready to lift off, which it quickly did, along with another right behind it. They both drifted towards the main doors, which slowly opened after several warning sirens blared and everyone who wasn't in a space suit was evacuated from the launch bay. The doors slowly slid apart to reveal a large void of darkness, which the two Pelicans quickly darted into before the metal doors closed once more and compressed the area within. The two ships sped off towards their target ship, thinking the human Captain knew enough about what was going on to not gun down the Pelicans. That, or he'd simply have to explain it to him over their COM system.