Admiral Kas stood tall on the bridge of his ship, the Free Wind. The Hapes Nova class battlecruiser was practically brand new, and still smelled like it. The crew bustled about, excited to finally be doing some "real" work for a change.
The Commander reviewed his orders again in his head. This was going to be a simple voyage. Admiral Kas was in charge of the small taskforce of twelve ships. They would sail out of dock, head around a nearby asteroid field, loop a couple of planets, take a four hour hyperspace jump, pick up some personnel at a nearby system, do a simulated fighter battle, and then hop back to dock, analyze the trip, and fix any problems. Simple. Short. Fun.

*Admiral, we are ready to leave* spoke his aid.

Great. Order the fleet to move out, and designate the formation to echelon.

The fleet moved gracefully out into space, and formed the designated echelon formation with practiced ease. Other than the Free Wind , only one other ship was new. The rest had experienced men at the helm, and most had seen repairs more often then their warranty covered.

*Sir, we will arrive at the Asteroid field in approximately thirty minutes.*


Thank you



Twelve Ships have just dropped out of hyperspace sir, they appear to be a mish mash of several types. None are vong, infact, hot dog, this task force is a perfect mirror of us!

Hail them. Open a channel.

*Channel open sir*

Recently arrived ships, let me speak to the commander.

The pause seems to streach on forever.

This is the Admiral of the fleet Revenge Who am I speaking to, and are you in a posision of authority to negotiate a surrender.

Admiral Kas was taken aback

Um, I am in command here, Kas, Admiral Kas.



Free Wind Fleet manifest


Hapan Battle Dragon – Free Wind

Hapes Nova Cruiser - Stealth
Hapes Nova Cruiser - Revenge
Hapes Nova Cruiser - Falcon

Correllian Gunship - Venom
Correllian Gunship - Sudden Strike

Silviut Vibre-class Shuttle-(Type: Corvette). - Deceate
Silviut Vibre-class Shuttle-(Type: Corvette). - Dragon


Carrack-class Cruiser - Sun
Carrack-class Cruiser - Kalte Pride

Corona-class Star Frigate – Old man
Corona-class Star Frigate – Help’s Breeze

Michelle Drake, your fleet is exactly the same as mine.

She sat in the command chair, her soft, delicate fingers gracefully tapping the cool, black leather as she watched out of the viewing ports of her ship the <!--EZCODE ITALIC START--> Sovereign<!--EZCODE ITALIC END-->, shaking her head. Within a few moments, she stood and looked out over the rival fleet as they seemed to move into position. This Admiral Kas was truely a man that seemed to rival her own Military Tactics.

She turned, and folded her hands behind her back, smoothing a few wrinkles out of her uniform.

"Admiral Kas, this is Admiral Michelle Drake, of the Sovereign Fleet. You have violated our Territory, and I demand a swift, and decisive withdrawl. Failier to comply with this negotiation may result in open warfare. If it is your wish to settle this matter diplomaticly, then I invite you to lower your shields, and speak freely."

She turned to her communications officer, a nice young man, who appeared to be fairly new to the crew. He gave her a nod, noting that her message had in fact been cleared, and received by the other ship.

Meanwhile, the Battleships of the Sovereign fleet moved into position, the Hapes Battle Dragon in the center as two Nova Cruisers flanked it's port side, and one more flanked it's starboard side. Slowly making there way under the calmly waiting Hapes Nova Cruisers, were two Corellian Gunships, the <!--EZCODE ITALIC START--> Darkfall<!--EZCODE ITALIC END-->, and the <!--EZCODE ITALIC START--> Shadow<!--EZCODE ITALIC END-->. Flanking the sides of the two Gunships, were two Carrack Cruisers, and two Corona Star Frigates, evenly spreading the fleet into a wonderful, aggressive, yet perfectly well defended position. The ships seemed to form a wall of pure shielding, and fire power as they stood against the backdrop of the cold, desolate space that stood between the two rival fleets.

Admiral Drake turned to her weapons officer. "Order all ships to raise Shields, load Warheads, and charge weapons. I have a feeling they aren't going to back down."

The man nodded his head, and casually walked to the tactical advisor, before givine the Communications officer the order.

<!--EZCODE CENTER START--><!--EZCODE CENTER END-->

Hapan Battle Dragon – Sovereign

Hapes Nova Cruiser - Talon Claw
Hapes Nova Cruiser - Raven
Hapes Nova Cruiser - Mage Flame

Correllian Gunship - Darkfall
Correllian Gunship - Shadow

Silviut Vibre-class Shuttle-(Type: Corvette). - North Brooke
Silviut Vibre-class Shuttle-(Type: Corvette). - South Brooke

Carrack-class Cruiser - Vamprilla
Carrack-class Cruiser - Rapier

Corona-class Star Frigate – Silver Sabre
Corona-class Star Frigate – Storm

(OOC: While reading your post, I noticed a few indesgresions, one of which is the fact that you claim that the Freewind is a Hapes Nova Class Cruiser, rather than a Hapes Battle Dragon, that you have it listed as. Also, the name of my fleet is Sovereign Fleet, not Revenge. ;) Also, one last thing. Please do not take liberties with how my character speaks. I'll allow it this time, but in the future, please refrain from doing so. I hate that....;) )

OOC: This is actualy an RP I wrote out a month or so ago. I said (open) in the title, but no takers. I was lazy, and just edited it. You caught my mistakes there :) The Free wind will just be a BattleDragon for this battle, even though it is a Nova.

IC:

<!--EZCODE BOLD START--> Admiral, I have no wish to invade your space. But, as of yesterday, I thought this was open and free space to fly through. How else could have the rest of my fleet have gotten in?
But if you wish to battle, so be it. I will not give in to some petty spacegrabber.<!--EZCODE BOLD END-->

With the usual "slash accross the neck" Kas had the com signal cut.

<!--EZCODE BOLD START--> Fleet in four groups. Put the <!--EZCODE ITALIC START--> Free Wind<!--EZCODE ITALIC END--> in the front, flanked by the Silviut's. Stealth gets the Venom and SS, Revenge gets the SUn and Kalte, and put the Falcon with Old man and Help. Have them each arrange into a Triangle, and bring the fleet into a elongated diamond, with swept back tips.

Connect me to all ships

This is the Admiral speaking. Do your duty well folks. Captains, keep your groups together, I want no ships wandering off, stay with your group.
<!--EZCODE BOLD END-->
The com's chattered frequently, and soon the two upposing fleets were arranged against eachother.

The fleets stood overlooking one another, silent on the backdrop of space. It was as if they were sitting there, waiting for one another to make the first move.

The Admiral stood on her command bridge, overlooking the fleet with a devilish grin.

"They've seperated it into groups. Task forces if you will. Keep out fleet as one. Make sure no ships break off. Lock weapons on those Enemy ships. I will not tolerate this Invasion."

The tactical advisor nodded his head.

"Admiral Drake, we have weapons armed. Scanners report that the enemy fleet is still charging shields, and weapons."

"Fire." the Admiral said in a soft, delicate tone.

Within seconds, Sovereign Fleet unloaded all over the opposing task forces.