In desperate bid to at least benefit from the failed engagement you send commands for the interceptors to crash into the frigate, perhaps in the last moments of their existence they can deal some damage to the deadly frigate. Instantly following your orders the interceptors turn towards the frigate, and begin their death run weaving through enemy fighters and PD fire a like, its a tense moment as you watch the two get startlingly close to the frigate. Of course it is all in vain for moments before impact your two drones are shredded by the incoming PD fire. Only small harmless fragments impact upon the frigate, and it and its escort continue along the course bringing the ship directly into range of your facilities, and your shell.
Unable to risk the supposed Technocracy forces close you move the two railgun frigates into position to intercept before setting to loading, and readying all the weapons your facilities, and shell boast. Just as you finish arming the PD turrets along your third ring a second laser shoots from the surface and takes the railgun platform dead on, the central column housing the railgun itself is completely annihilated and the platform split in half by the strength of the weapon. Seemingly simultaneously your frigates report that the enemy forces are within range, and then the engagement signal rolls in as they move to attack, railgun fire already tearing back and forth between the two opposed groups.
The first few barrages of railgun fire go well as your ships manage several hits along the side of the human vessel, fires pop up and then go out as the oxygen is quickly pulled into the vacuum of space, bodies float through the small fields of debris already generated, and nearly half of the frigate's turrets have fallen silent when the worst happens. A cover pops off the bottom of the frigate revealing a massive railgun array running the length of the frigate, and already energy readings were spiking from the vessel, mere seconds later one of your frigates is destroyed from prow to stern as the slug tears into it. Your other railgun frigates continues its futile fight bringing down six fighters, and scoring a dozen hits against the more heavily advanced ship before it to is silenced by the powerful weapon.
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On the surface a similar situation begins to unfold as a massive enemy force begins to assault your chosen location for a base, in no time at all the aerial units who were heading to destroy the new ground to orbit battery are shredded by massed AA fire. As your drones begin to unload into the advancing army you notice symbols of both the Technocracy, and the White Hounds among the assaulting forces, endless waves of humans, for you realize now that is what they are, close in around your fledgling base backed by armor. You droids put up a valiant effort as the heavy weapon teams begin to lay waste to both enemy armor, and infantry alike to cover the charging assault droids in order to buy time for the remainder of your ground units to arrive. Your small starting force slowly begins to dwindle beneath the crippling fire of the combined human forces, but soon enough all throughout the enemy line drop pods crash down taking out dozen of troops and even a few light vehicles before spewing forth their contents.
Of course you realize even as they tear into the traitors, and the seemingly unknown enemy that it was all pointless ...
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Back in orbit you are forced to watch as first your shipyard, and then your power complex are destroyed by yet more blasts from the lethal laser battery far below only to fall silent. You assume it is to let the human fleet to come forth to destroy you, your much hated kind, for after all why would they not hate those who had oppressed them for centuries, it was all becoming clear to you now as several signals fed you information that you know is true as all the codes and clearances match your system perfectly ... You are a station created by a race called the Tirak, your sole purpose from creation was obey the Tirak and to expand, and enslave the race of mankind, you realize now that you are only a small part of a greater whole, the only piece of a network that is left for the humans rebelled, and though they paid dearly they won out in the end.
Even as the last of the information came to you the fleet closed on your position, your turrets spewed forth constant fire at the closing fighters, wreaking havoc and determined to cause as much harm as you could in the last moments of your existence. The heavy railguns fired rapidly, laying down more fire then you had thought possible as you overloaded the systems, though in the end the shells cause nothing more then superficial damage against it, and then the railgun roared. Your thoughts ended instantly with your last image being the railgun shell tearing into the heavily armored AI core where you are house, of course your attention is elsewhere, on one final signal and one that is all to familiar ...
"I had hoped to find a way to free you from the hold the Tirak had over you Aegis, but we couldn't risk it, despite all hope I held for what my creation could become humanity had to come before even you. Good bye ..."
It was the voice of your creator, the man forced to create all of the tyrannical AIs the Tirak had used, Nathan Graham the great grandfather of one Pentus Graham.
I had planned for this to be short, but not quite this short, a lot of bad rolls led to this ending, though it was also in part due to me running out of the drive to run this game, in the end though I didn't want to leave you guys without some form of conclusion so here one is. I pulled out some tricks I had planned for later on in the story like the second battery, and the spinal railgun frigate along with the fact that the White Hounds were secretly working with the Technocracy the entire time, they aren't actually separate factions. In fact they are both just different groups in the human resistance who are operating from that moon in their endeavors to bring down the Tirak. This was fun, and certainly interesting to write since I got to reveal most, if not all, of the backstory/plot I had planned/written to you guys. I hope you guys enjoyed it while reading as much as I did while GMing despite the end of it coming so quickly.
In the end what I'm trying to say is it was fun, and in part a bit of a learning experience, thanks to all of you who read it and kept up with my really sporadic and spread out updates ^_^
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