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The screen flickered to the first, second, and forth fleet. Decelerating to their destination near where the battle of the heliosphere commenced.
The camera zoomed into the center of the fleet where the UNSS-Nimitz was. With its fusion drives exhausting its fuel to keep it in a constant 1g burn.
We are now shown the interior of the UNSS-Nimitz where it looked like any interior in sea based ships. Just pressurized and is air conditioned for the ease of the crew, with constant oxygen being produced by the greenhouse and plants spread out in the UNSS-nimitz.
We now flicker to the admiral's room which was lit up and looked like any fancy-neoclassical era room. With Admiral Liam leaning on his comfy couch where he then activated the digital components on his classical table which then flickered into a hologram-Video-Chat with Admiral Oliver, Liams close friend since the academy.
“Greetings, frien-” Liam was cutted off as Oliver grimley demanded.
“Get to the point Liam, I'm giving you 5 minutes of my time as I think you are aware that I'm in a battle with the Tadpoles.” Oliver said as he was flanked by his XO and second highest ranking officer.
Liam had cold sweat as stress engulfed him, he then began.
“Listen, friend, I am here to assist you with your battle with the Tadpoles as ordered by Fleet Admiral johnson.” Liam says as he clenches his hands together, awaiting the response of his close friend.
Oliver took out from his pockets his state of the art Iphone Mil-30(Designed for military use by Apple) as he opened it and browsed through the logs of orders.
“You're lying, Johnson hasn't even said or ordered anything.” Oliver said as he had a look which could petrify a normal civy, but Liam wasn't phased at all.
“Well, I was relayed it secretly, with general kanaya relaying it to me back at pluto.” Liam said as he took out a pipe and ignited the tobacco within it as he inhaled its content as he moaned in ecstasy.
“I need some proof backing that up, and why exactly? Does Johnson think we can't beat back these freaks?” Olivered said as he slammed his fist to the wooden table he was sitting on.
Liam had his eyes closed as he slowly opened them for a dramatic effect.
“Yes, he is not confident in our abilities” He says as Oliver's prideful heart was smashed to bits. As Liam continued.
“We serve as the ones who are sent to slow down the tadpoles, reports of another wave of a million just came about 10 hours too. Here, I am currently sending you something right now.”
Liam sent a quantum encrypted file to Oliver, as Oliver installed it in a millisecond and opened the word document. Enlarging the holographic view as both he and his XO and officer red through it..
And soon, their faces turned dark and pale as they realized that their main purpose was to actually slow these aliens down. With Oliver looking down, having an existential crisis as he then admitted his defeat in this matter and spoke to his friend.
“Then I acknowledge your assistance my fellow admiral, I hope to see your expertise in the battlefield.” Oliver then stood up as he saluted alongside his XO and officer as the video call ended with a voice command.
Liam sighed as he exhausted a cloud of smoke as he stood up and walked out of his room. Directing his way to the strategos room where all of his officers where in as he had a gloomy gaze. Which then zoomed out to the decelerating fleet, with some additional support ships, made up of 15 Grouper-class Carriers.
The Grouper-class carrier is a large 2 kilometer ship carrying a fleet of 200 Rocinante class frigates. Frigates designed to swarm large capital ships and protect its home fleet by engaging ship to ship missiles with maneuverability and speed with its single Tyrannosaur fusion drive.
As Liam opened the door to the strategos room, which was a metal filled room with lights as he was met by his top officers. Sitting around the oval strategos table, where liam took his designated seat and finally started.
“Are we in the engagement range?” Liam asks as one of the officers brought up the field of the battle-plain through the oval table as he expanded it.
“We are sir, Admiral Oliver has let us access the local real-time radars in this area.” The officer says as Liam nodded.
“Good, have the Nimitz fire 10 torpedoes. Join this with all ships in our combined fleet.” Liam ordered as his officers nod.
As we zoomed out to the combined fleet of Liam, we see many torpedoes being jettisoned out as they do high-g burns with their RCS guiding them. Being semi-active-guided as more then 15000 Anti-Ship torpedoes zoom out, bound to do there designated targets, to arrive in 2 hours max.
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Battlespace
The battle of the heliosphere was going to the edge of the tadpoles as they constantly target and fire more, and more torpedoes. Some being boarding classes and some being Anti-ship missiles with a kinetic warhead.
Oliver was being pressured and in severe tension as he knew how this battle would end up.
We now zoom out as we see the UNSS-Pershing spinning around as its 110 PDCs target each torpedo detected as this is copied by all other Orion-class battleships.
Oliver waited till the right moment till he contacted a certain vice admiral. And sent him a message via morse code.
The 10th fleet's vice admiral got the message as he then ordered a rapid advance and attack. With this, the 10th fleet of the same composition opened up their bays and ejected more than 20 Ship to Ship torpedoes per ship. At 10000 fully as they accelerated, aiming downwards as its RCS worked hard.
The 10th fleet followed up slowly as it descended to assist the fifth fleet.
The tadpoles were confident of their victory as they detected more contacts incoming. Firing more Missile-to-Missile torpedoes as they ascended up. Destroying 5000 of the 10000 missiles fired from the 10th fleet.
Those 5000 missiles were still present though, and immediately accelerated more. WIth the tadpoles PDCs acting up as they destroy up to 1000 more. Leaving 4000 missiles to hit 200 targets.
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Mars
We now switch our camera view to the red planet, with its 2 moons orbiting it. Deimos, and phobos.
Mars was a prospering colony of the UN. And the biggest colony of humanity, beating the moon by 2105 AD with a population of 300 million people. With a power generation of 40 petawatts per hour, second to earth at 200 petawatts an hour and beating the moon by a number of 20 petawatts.
We are now shown the capital city of mars, near the equator, where it is also the oldest city on mars due to it being the first.
The city of curiosity, consisting of almost 37 million residents. Situated around big mountain ranges where the city spanned inside of them too. By mining inside and making more housing inside the mountains. Powered by a single terawatt Tokamak. And covers an amassing 4000 square kilometers.
Also located 30 kilometers from the city is where the largest space-port on mars was. Space-port Perseverance, covering almost 800 square kilometers. Filled with runways and launch pads where either shuttles or reusable rockets land or tax.
Perseverance was also the main hub for spaceflight on mars, and as such, is connected to all cities via underground high-speed rail.
But moving from these fillers, located 200 kilometers from the capital, is where the main military command structure and the one that replaced earth's mega-pentagon. The Martian Shatterdome.
Martian shatterdome(exclude the glass, the shatterdome is an armoured dome with 30 inch thick composite armor of the same stuff the warships are equipped with)
The martian shatterdome is the main command structure of the United Nations military force. Replacing the pentagon in 2120 AD, it measures at nearly 10 kilometers in diameter.
It surveys and relays commands to every fleet on sol and where all Fleet admirals were present. It is surrounded by landing pads and hangars for military vehicles. And also protected by hidden installations of land-based PDC systems and Surface-to-Air missiles. And is also flanked by 2 gigantic everest-class mass drivers. Currently aiming skywards.
And inside, was where a meeting of all fleet admirals present where.
“Reports on the battle of the heliosphere have come back, Oliver is losing his entire force of 2 fleets. And we've just got info on Admiral-Liams breaking order.” Fleet admiral Noah says as Admiral hong-da expresses his opinion.
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“Yes, breaking fleet admiral johnsons command. What impudence, we will court martial him if he survives the battl-” Hong da was cutted short as johnson shouts.
“Enough! I have something to reveal to you all, and it is urgent…” Johnson says as he had his arms crossed with each other with an iron steel expression. Which caught the minds and attention he wanted.
Johnson sighed as he took out a flash drive, embedding it within the oval table as a hologram flickered to reveal the Venture star program document on each of the fleet admirals hologram screens.
“What is this? Are you telling me the United States was secretly building and developing a state of the art cryo interstellar ship since the ending of the 2110 attack?” Fleet admiral auswitchs says as he had a gaze of confusion as he bawled his fist.
Johnson nods as he begins to speak, “Yes, we have been doing so since the aftermath of the attack. The venture star program was a highly classified program to practice one of our contingencies made in the 2070s. Which then evolved into a highly funded program after the tadpoles attack in 2110, receiving almost 30 trillion dollars of funding. Equal to the United States budget during the mid 21st century. It was focused into creating the perfect interstellar ship design and the most efficient and high thrust engine in existence, aka, named the mosasaur fusion drive. Which almost has a specific impulse of 50 million seconds and thrust 20x better then the state of the art, Mk23 Tyrannosaur fusion drive.”
Johnson says as all the fleet admirals had an aweing gaze with their mouths reaching the bottom of the floor. In which, Fleet admiral Noah had a question.
“If so, why mention it now?” Noah asks as Johnson looked at him.
“Because we need people to inhabit it of course, the USS-Venture-Star is almost 2.2 kilometers long with 3 400 meter long housing capsules. And a spinning cable for its crew to inhabit once in orbit of its designated planet.” Johnsons says as the rest of fleet admirals nod.
Hong read the document and saw the designated solar system and planet.
“The Arceus system on Arceus B? That's almost a thousand lightyears away!” Hong's voice amplified across the room as he slammed his fist upon the table.
Johnson looked at him as he said the following, “And yes, that 30 trillion dollars also contributed to the study of cryo. Which also means we have created the first immortal pod.” This reassured Hong as he standed down.
“I will have to inform the prime minister of this.” Noah says as he was followed up by all major fleet admirals as they left the room to privately contact their leaders. Also given a list of requirements by Johnson:
Scientists, Engineers,botanist etc.
Military personnel
Competent citizens with a clean background
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Battle of the Heliosphere
The battle was still going to the edge of the aliens as they came to swarm the fifth and tenth fleet.
Casualties are at an all-time high as more than 900 UN ships have been destroyed. While the aliens still have a gigantic force of 700 thousand ships.
We now switch our view to Liams Point of View as he immediately gets into swift action.
“Are we in the engagement range?” Liam asks as he was responded to with an affirmative by the ship's AI.
“Good, launch 200 torpedoes! Relay the command to every ship now!” He issues an order to the communications officer as the order was relayed.
More than 300 thousand torpedos are ejected as they accelerate from their position. Which was 200 thousand kilometers away from Olivers fleet and 400 thousand from the alien fleet.
These 300 thousand torpedoes moved extra fast as they were detected by the Tadpoles and were targeted by Missile-to-Missile torpedoes and the PDC systems.
Only 100 thousand of the torpedoes remain as they impact their designated enemy ships. Destroying nearly 80 thousand alien ships as the tadpoles panic.
The grouper class carriers open their gigantic bay as they release the Mini-fleet inside of them. Amounting to more than 2400 Rocinante class frigates.
The unmanned frigates burn their Tyrannosaur engines as they are to be doing CQB operations.
The 2400 Unmanned frigates make there way as they were mistaken for space debri as the Tadpoles were caught by surprise as the rocinantes swarm there ship each by each as its high performance RCS thrusters dodge many PDC systems while the rocinantes own PDC systems fire upon the Tadpole ships and incoming Missiles. Destroying said missiles while also killing many tadpole crews and essential parts.
This gave some time for Liam's fleet as they proceeded to chuck out 6000 more missiles.
After 30 minutes, the rocinantes were eradicated as the aliens' missiles managed to overwhelm each of their Systems and PDCs. Destroying all rocinantes while the aliens suffered 6000 casualties of ships.
The 6000 more missiles were detected as more and more MTMs were launched. With more and more PDCs firing.
As for Oliver's fleet, he only had 100 ships left as he gave the order to charge head on and at CQB. The UNSS-Pershing loads 10 of its 5 inch cannons with casaba rounds as they are accelerated magnetically at 300 kilometers per second.
These casaba rounds go through an infinite ranged course as they near there targets and immediately ignite their fission reaction as the shaped nuclear charge sends a plasma beam towards a group of Alien battleships.
The casaba rounds decimate the group of alien ships as the crew cheer. Albeit, shakily as the pershing was constantly getting its hull slammed by Ship to Ship missiles and Torpedo boarding parties.
Oliver observed the scene as he sighed, he knew what to do now as his fleet has been decimated and his destiny lies with eternal darkness.
“Order the helmsman to accelerate at 2gs, relay the order to the rest of the remaining fifth fleet.” Liam orders to the shock of the communications officer. But he sent and relayed it anyway….
As liam was observing the battlefield, he noticed the fifth fleet suddenly accelerating fast. His face turned wide and dark as he realized what his prideful friend had done. He immediately ran to the communications officer's computer and snatched his headphones. While logging into communications with Oliver.
The communication was successful as Oliver started.
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“For fuck, SAKE!” He says as he huffs constantly.
The UNSS-pershing and its remaining fleet charged into battle in the name of Valhalla as they activated CQB protocols and started firing their Railguns and PDCs at any Tadpole ship within its vicinity. With the Pershing getting many kills as it launched tons of nuclear shells and nuclear missiles.
Oliver was having the time of his life as he was sending orders left and right. Before seeing through the external camera in the Pershing's hull. To see an alien tadpole torpedo accelerating before impacting the frontal face of the Pershing's Orion structure which has been taking the most damage. Breaching its weakened hull before detonating its antimatter warhead. Which was the equivalent of the nuclear weapons used by the UN.
Liam observed the battle as his face turned pale and dark and grim as he just saw his childhood and close friend just…die…
Many of the crew realized what had happened to him, being frozen in the middle of an engagement. Staring blankly into the debri field the antimatter warhead made in to the pershing. And not responding to anything unless it was important.. Shell shock, and as of currently, his brain was trying to cope with the immense stress he was feeling.
Before long though, Liams XO and Second officer come up behind him as hes XO tell him a few sets off words that removed him from his trans.
“Sir, I am relieving you off command.” Liam swirled around as he had a confused gaze.
“Excuse me? Relieving me off duty? Who gave you the authority Jenkins?” Liam asks his XO as he answers appropriately.
“Fleet admiral johnson, sir. You've been picked and drafted into the venture star program to be its leading figure.” Liam's eyes shot up as his hands were shaking.
“W-What? N-No! I-Im….” Liam tries to deny this but in the end, gives up in defeat as he was then escorted to the evacuation pod.
Liam entered the drone evac pod as its door closed pressurized shut as he then laid on his evac pod bed. Which was pretty comfy actually.
Before he knew it, he was ejected into deep space as the Nimitz opened its bay.
The evac drone pod drew a new course to the Martian shatterdome As its RCS worked up to correct its axis and tilt. Before doing a 1g burn with its Raptor Fusion drive, as for Liam, he had a face of a man who just experienced the death of his friend and soon, he's fleet he's been training with since he was promoted to commander.
Liam stared off to the distance of the void, as he was distancing himself with the horrors of warfare. Eventually knocking himself out to not feel the pain of the evac drone doing a 5g turn to decelerate to an orbit of mars.
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50 hours later.
After 50 hours Liam was evacuated from the UNSS-Nimitz, the battlespace was quiet…….well, till we got into view as the only things we saw were the colossal biomechanical space battleships salvaging the debri of their victory. To be reused and clear the space where they will rendezvous with the second wave.
Upon the debri, we see the remains of Liams fleet as they've fallen to the monsters of interstellar space..
With the information transmitted everywhere to the solar system. Civil movements start as social unrest increases, some against the venture star program to fight back against the aliens while some support the venture star programs. But are branded as cowards and pessimistic.
The belt, earth, mars, and outer moons/planets go into DEFCON 2 under the UN as the only planet which has switched to DEFCON 1. Pluto, has begun to mobilize as its ground forces are superbly cautious and attentive as they are ready for a planetary invasion.
While defense platforms in Pluto's orbit keep track of the tadpoles movements. This was also joined with Orbital railguns in orbit of Charon and mass drivers on the surface of Pluto's moon.
Additionally, resources directly from the belt are transported to both of the celestial bodies while extra military support from the UN arrive, in the form of the third fleet and sixth fleet.
As for other moons and planets, enceladus, triton, ganymede, europa, and titan are also given military support but where already built with mass drivers and orbital platforms
As for the belt, it is planned to evacuate both ceres and eros after the fall of the outer planets.
For Mars, it is already heavily militarized with a total amassing military force of 20 million troops on its surface. 20 thousand Tanks, and 5500 fighter-craft designed for mars carbon-rich atmosphere. Alongside 3100 Orbital railgun platforms, 5000 Stations designed to carry a bulk of missiles and PDCs, and 200 Everest class-mass drivers.
Then, we have Earth and Luna. With an amassing combined force of 80 million troops and 42 thousand Tanks, 14000 fighter craft consisting of new 7th generation, 6500 Orbital railgun platforms. 10000 armed and armored stations. And finally, 990 Everest class mass drivers situated in Africa or the poles.
We shall see, what befalls humanity.