United Earth Armed Forces Mars Military Base
On the surface near the storage facility, there was a military base so huge that it could be seen from Orbit. The Base was filled with facilities, soldiers walking everywhere, huge mining trucks driving, carrying materials such as Raw Titanium, Iron and Aluminium to the Industrial Section of the base. This base was shaped like a rectangle with a length of over 30 kilometres and a width of over 20 kilometres.
On one of the sections of the base, on the far side, there was one space carrier stationed there and there were trucks carrying personnel, soldiers, into the space carrier. This carrier was no ordinary carrier because it has a length of over 1.6 kilometres, has a beam of 540 metres and a staggering height of 304 metres, making it the biggest vessel in the United Earth Armed Forces inventory. There was the word ‘UESF Olympus Mons SWAC/EX-01-01’ witten of the portside. It was the lead ship of the Olympus Mons Class Space Carrier. There were cranes loading fighter jets onto both sides of the carrier’s flight deck non stop and the fighter jets were then pushed to the aircraft lift, taking them into the hangar bay.
UESF Olympus Mons SWAC/EX-01–01’s Mission Discussion Room
Inside the room, there were a lot of people, sitting at their seats while staring at the screen in front of them. They started talking to each other, discussing various topics. Some of them were fighter pilots, lieutenants,and others. The door to the side of the screen opened and a man walked into the room, wearing a blue navy suit and the room went into complete silence.
“Alright, let’s discuss what we’re going to do.” said the man before the room suddenly went dark and the screen lit up, showing the logo of the United Earth Federation and then an image of what seemed to be an Earth-like planet. “We are going to do an operation on this particular planet after everything is prepared.”
“Admiral! Are we going to invade that planet!?” shouted a Fighter Jet squadron leader on the third row.
“Yes,” said the Man. He is Admiral Charles Heckle, the same man who reported the number of casualties to Admiral Bush. “This is the military base on this planet.” said Admiral Heckle before the screen shifted to an image, showing a huge military in the middle of a plain field. “According to our intel, this is one of the Oriented Republic’s military bases, the nearest to us, only two hundred light years from here.”
“Sir, how many personnel does that military base host?” Shouted a lieutenant after he stood up to question before he sat back down.
“Well, the intel suggests that the military base hosts around half a million personnel.” replied Admiral Heckle. “General Clark Devour will present his plan.”
“Well, since the Olympus Mons can only deploy around two thousands soldier with drop ships , We will need at least thirty Olympus Mons to conduct this mission.” said General Devour, a 4 stars General in the United Earth Army, after he stood up and walked to the side of the screen “This is the main facility of the base which contain the control room of the base. If we manage to capture this room, we will have total control on every operation in the Base. General McWood has already established a team of 30 highly trained Special Marines”
“How are we going to fight with twenty thousand soldiers?” asked a Lieutenant who was serving in the Army “We only have 10 Olympus Mons.”
“Orbital Strike Exist.” replied General Devour “We’ll also need to deploy fighter jets so that we can control their sky and having control over the sky around the base will give us a huge advantage in this operation” General Denvour continued after a new image was displayed on the screen, showing a huge facility which was where the soldiers were housed. “A squadron of fighters will lead the way, destroying the air defence system before another team fires cruise missiles and drops Bombs to destroy the camp. We’ll also destroy these anti-ship missile silos.”
“Sir, why don’t we just strike them from space?” asked a Private after he stood up.
“The solar system is protected by around six hundred warships and we won’t be able to stay long before they start to attack us so fighter jets and drop ships are the solution, they are smaller and harder to intercept than huge battleships and carriers.”
“Let me speak a bit.” said Admiral Heckle before he made his way to General Denvour’s place, moving him aside before continuing his talk “I’ll send five Olympus Mons, carrying a total of ten thousands troops, to jump their way near the planet. After they all reach around fifty thousand kilometers from the planet’s atmosphere, a group of 50 SuperNova Class Space Battleship Block three will protect the all five carriers while fighter jets and drop ships are being launched. The whole process must take less than ten minutes and after everything has been launched, every ship will jump back to Mars and let the fighter jets and troops do the mission.”
“But Admiral, the number of soldiers is too low.” Asked General Devour
“If you think my plan isn’t good enough, this is Admiral Bush’s plan.” Said Admiral Heckle after a moment of thinking “He explained his plans to me and this plan cannot afford to fail. Since the Olympus Mons is designed to carry fifteen thousand soldiers, he suggested to land 10 Olympus Mons on that planet and he will authorise the deployment of fifty SuperNova Class to protect to fight the warships in the star system. We cannot use Drop Ships since there are too many soldiers so we'll have to land on the planet itself.”
“Aren’t all Battleships undergoing upgrades?” asked General Denvour.
“You’ll know soon.” replied Admiral Heckle “Alright, Let’s do this, Let’s GO! Go with Admiral Bush’s Plan!”
Soldiers and Crews were rushed into all ten Olympus Mons Space Carriers after the plan was finally concluded. Sirens could be heard, urging everyone to hurry up as they cannot afford to wait any longer.
“All Personnel, Please, Proceed to your assigned station immediately!”
Crews inside carriers’ hanger bay did their job as fast as they could, scrambling to fasten the process so that the Carriers could be launched as soon as possible. Fighter jets were being loaded non stop, groups of soldiers running as fast as they could into the carriers’ hanger bay inside their armoured spacesuits.
“I repeat, all personnel, leave the danger zone immediately, carriers are ready to take off!”
After almost 20 minutes of everyone rushing, doing their job as fast as possible, the carriers were ready. Every crew member started running, cargo trucks making their way out of the danger zone because if they didn’t , the carriers’ Engines would blow them to their death. Engines started coming to life, firing blue thrust. All of the carriers’ Atmospheric Engines under the carriers’ hull started firing, lifting the carriers. These carriers started moving forward and started ascending, flying up in the atmosphere at great speed with little to no effort with their powerful Nexus Cosmo Engines.
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After one minute of flying, these carriers made it to orbit and were ready to jump. UESF Olympus Mons SWAC/EX-01-01 is the lead ship so others will jump only when she jumps into subspace.
“Sir, Ready to jump?” Asked The Navigation of the Lead ship of the Olympus Mons.
“JUMP!” Shouted Admiral Heckle as he gave his command.
The carrier’s two enormous Nexus Engines started firing to full power, needing to accelerate the carrier to 20 Space Knots to pierce through the Quantum Barrier. All of the other carriers, after receiving command from Admiral Heckle, turned their Nexus Engines to full power, heading the same direction as Admiral Heckle’s carrier.
After six seconds of acceleration on Mars Orbit, the carriers’ Quantum Subspace Drives kicked into action and started making the carriers pushing through the Quantum Barrier. After two seconds, the fleet successfully pushed through the Quantum Barrier, entering Subspace and could go faster than light.
Subspace
1 Hours Later
UESF Olympus Mons SWAC/EX-01-01’s bridge
In the vastness and blackness of Subspace, the fleet of ten Olympus Mons were going at FTL speed. After nearly one hour of acceleration, the fleet was travelling at a maximum speed of Warp 0.2 speed due to the limitation of the Quantum Subspace Drive installed on each carrier. Warp 1 translates to 1 Million C.
The atmosphere of the bridge still remained the same even after entering subspace. Crews were doing their assigned job as the bridge went into complete silence.
“Sir, the fleet reached the maximum speed of Warp 0.2” said the Navigation Officer.
“How long will it take for us to get to their military base?” asked Admiral Heckle.
“Around eight point seven hours to get there.” The Navigation officer answered.
“Get ready, we’ll land as soon as we get there.”
A moment after all of the Carriers jumped into subspace
Underground Storage Facility
“So, this is the Quantum Singularity Engine?” asked Admiral Bush while he was in a SuperNova Class Space Battleship’s Engine Room with a man wearing a light dark blue shirt and a trouser the same colour as the shirt, and fairly the same height as him but the man looked younger than him.
“Ah, Yes. An Engine that utilises the Singularity Property of the Corrupt Matter.” said the Man, who was the head of the Atlas Corporation Energy Generation Department.
“How did we manage to acquire the corrupt matter?” Asked Admiral Bush after he observed the Engine for a moment “And what exactly is the Corrupt Matter?”
“Wait, I didn’t send you the file containing the Newly discovered Corrupt Matter?” asked the Man as he was confused after hearing Admiral Bush’s questions.
“No.” Admiral Bush Replied
“Alright.” the Man sighed “Corrupt Matter is a matter than constantly changing states from Antimatter to Matter and back. We found the Corrupt Matter in the Corrupt Dimension with an exploration ship back in twenty one fifty one Common Era, equipped with the found Singularity Drive." The Man continued after he pulled his phone out from his shirt’s pocket, showing Admiral Bush a picture of a cube in a dark red colour. “This is the Cube made out of Pure Corrupt Matter. Corrupt Matter locks in what we called Singularity State if it is put inside a Quantum Field. We don't know how that happened but after the Corrupt Matter enters the Singularity State, it releases a huge amount of Radeon Energy but this Radeon Energy is the Purest Radeon Energy we have ever seen. We think that it will continue to release Radeon energy until the Quantum Field is down.”
“Even though I have an old brain, I can still understand this.” said Admiral Bush before he closed eyes “We almost went extinct one hundred thirty one years ago. We’ve been through a lot and I am happy that we reached this level of technological advancement.”
“Sir, fifty Battleships, all of which are SuperNova Class, have been deployed” a sound was heard through the radio strapped to Admiral Bushi’s hip.
“Good.” Admiral Bush replied after he pulled the radio out. “I am going to Olympus Mons. I have another business there.”
One of the Battleships’ bridge kept in storage
The Bridge of the Block 3 Variant and the Block 1 Variant is still the same, nothing has changed in the bridge in the past 55 years after the Federation commissioned the SuperNova Class Space Battleship. Inside the bridge were two workers who seemed to be doing something that was ordered by Admiral Bush.
“Hey, take it out of the way.” said one of the Workers who was carrying a white box, walking into the bridge.
“Alright.” the other worker replied as he lifted the White Box which was one of the versions of the last Quantum Computer Series or the 550 Series Quantum Computer, the 550W XR.
The other worker walked to a compartment which had a small room with a bunch of cables on it and it was big enough for the white box he was carrying. He placed it on the place and started connecting cables into the white box. There was a word “560A” printed on the white box.
“I heard that this new Quantum Computer can allow AI to do Self-Develop.” said work as he finished connecting all of the cables and pushed it into its right place.
“Yeah.” replied the other worker as he was seen looking out of the Bridge window. “Admiral Bush wanted to push for AI-Controlled Fleets.”
“I don’t know what will happen in the future.” said the Worker after he finished the job. “We might be born too soon.”
“Born too Soon?” said the other worker before he looked back at the worker “I remembered my grandpa talking about how my great grandparents thought about the future and oh boy they were so wrong.”
“What did they say?”
“I forgot but all I know is that they were wrong.”
“OK” replied the worker and not long after, his radio ring “What is it?”
“Have you connected the Quantum Computer?” asked a worker on the other side of the radio
“Yes, I just connected it.”
“Good, I’ll fire up the Auxiliary Engine.”
The radio went into complete silence. After a brief moment of waiting, the bridge was lit up with lights, screens were powered up but showed static and projecting ‘no signal’. The Worker who answered the radio and set up the Quantum Computer pressed the button on the Quantum Computer. The 560A started booting and the screen on it started showing thousands of lines of codes non-stop. After a moment of waiting, the screens inside the bridge were no longer static as the Quantum Computer had created every single programme necessary to operate the Battleships. The Screens started showing up their assigned jobs such as Radar, Navigation, etc.
Approximately 9.7 hours of Commencing Jump Process
Gierce Star Systems
Planet Platon, 3rd Planet of the Gierce Star System
One of Oriented Republic’s strategic planet in the Orion Region
The Fleet suddenly jumped out of subspace, entering normal space after nearly 9.7 Hours going faster than light speed inside the subspace but since the Subspace and Normal space are connected to each other, time goes the same speed for both, the journey lasted 9.7 hours for people outside the subspace.
“This planet is bigger than I thought.” Said Admiral Heckle after he saw Planet Platon with his very own eyes. The Planet was big, roughly the same size as Earth. Since this planet is in the habitable zone, it has forest, waters, and it can support life.
“Commencing landing. Activate the HIFEB-1 Cannon, ready to protect the carriers.” Said the Weapon Officers on the bridge.
“SIR! 20 Enemies Battleships Detected! Approximately 3 Light Second Away!” shouted the Radar Operator after his panel showed 20 dots were heading their way. “Ally Forces have arrived!”
Beside the carrier fleet, a group of fifty battleships suddenly jumped out of subspace, entering the battlezone. All of these Battleships were the Battleships kept in the underground storage facility and since these Battleships were the Block 3 variant, they have better firepower and defence than the Battleships used in the last battle.
“This is Admiral Heckle, this is my command, All of the Carriers will commence landing on the planet. As for the Battleships, your objective will be battling the enemy’s battleships, buying times for the Carriers”
All of the carriers’ engines started firing up, heading to the planet. The Battleships on the back of the fleet followed, aiming their behemoth Quad Barrel Positron Cannons with 3 Forward Turrets and 2 Backward Turrets. The Battleships started firing their cannons to the enemy and the enemy returned fire back.
The Carriers started descending down and the Carriers’ hull started experiencing extreme heat from the planet’s Earth like atmosphere but due to the Carrier’s hull being covered by heat titles, it wasn’t much of a problem. Everyone in the carriers started experiencing violent shaking as the carriers entered the atmosphere.
After around two minutes of descending, the Carriers finally landed on the planet, not far away from the Military Base’s main entrance. Only 5 Olympus Mons landed on that location, as for the other 5, they landed near the soldier camps.
The Base’s Defence near the entrance started aiming at the carriers and firing their huge caliber rounds. The Carriers’ Energy Shield was deployed and stopped the round for piercing the Carriers’ hull.
The Carriers’ front hanger doors opened down, revealing a massive army of soldiers ready to fight. Fighters were lifted to the flight deck on top and started flying, firing missiles at the enemy’s defence. The soldiers started running out of the carriers’ hanger bay, marching to the base entrance. The Enemy’s soldiers gathered up at the gate, firing their guns at the Federation’s soldiers. The Federation’s Soldiers received the fire, and started having injured soldiers so they returned fire back. Multiple Republic’s F-2100 Fighter Jets flew over and fired their missiles at a group of Federation’s Soldiers, causing a lot of casualties but two Federation’s SF-35 Fighter Jets fired their Air-Air Missiles at the Republic’s F-2100, destroying them. The SF-35 enabled their VTOL mode in front of the entrance, fired multiple missiles at the Republic’s Soldiers protecting the entrance and the entrance was blown up and caused those soldiers to fly around and some were dead on the spot.